"Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news. During this period, most of the complaints received from viewers were concerned with our station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, local businesses that used to advertise during our late-night news program have canceled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to our news programs and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should expand our coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs."
In the following argument the business manager of a television station generate a memorandum stating that due to increase in the complaints of the viewers regarding their channel's late night news programs with less coverage of weather and local news. The given argument is full of assumptions and incomplete stastical data which make the argument highly flawed and subjected to a new debate.
The most glaring error in the memorandum is that, the business manager has assumed that viewer's complaints concerning with the station's coverage of weather and local news is solely related to the late-night news programmes. The complaints might be related to the content of the local news presented by the news channel, the content might include various vulgar news or there might be the problem due to showing unnecessary advertisements betwwn the news. Also, the complaints may be related to the auntheticity of the weather reports. Thus, the manager did not provide any explanation about the content of the complaints, he from no where presumed that the complaints regarding weather and local news is related to the late night news program.
Besides, the manager did not provide the sample numbers of the complaints. There might be a single person has complained many times or there might be various people complaining about the single content. He fails to provide the amount of complaints he received because considering only few complaints and taking an action is not a wise decision. All of these fallacies shows the ignorance of the manager and thus, the argument if formed of a thin air.
Also, the manager did not provide the reason that why the ad companies have cancelled their advertising contracts. There could be the numerous reasons for it; the ad companies might not experiencing the good relation with the news station, they might have completed their deal with the news station. The manager just assumed that due to cancellation of these advertising contracts, its reason is due to the increase time to national news. Without any proper analysis the manager decided to restore the time devoted to weather and local news. This shows that the argument is standing on a baseless ground.
Summing up the discussion, the above fallacies in the argument and illogical assumptions clearly indicates the degree of ignorance of the business manager of the news station and hence, the argument is can be said as ill constructed, highly flawed, and subjected to a re-evaluation.
- A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college. 50
- "The best way for a society to prepare its young people for leadership in government, industry, or other fields is by instilling in them a sense of cooperation, not competition." 50
- Some people believe that universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study. Others believe that universities should not force students to take any courses other than those that will help prepare th 50
- "According to a recent report by our marketing department, during the past year, fewer people attended Super Screen produced movies than in any other year. And yet the percentage of positive reviews by movie reviewers about specific Super Screen movies a 50
- A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college. 50
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 128, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'stations'' or 'station's'?
Suggestion: stations'; station's
... viewers complaints concerning with the stations coverage of weather and local news is s...
^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 225, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ated to the late-night news programmes. The complaints might be related to the cont...
^^^
Line 3, column 631, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
... the content of the complaints, he from no where presumed that the complaints rega...
^^
Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'besides', 'hence', 'if', 'may', 'regarding', 'so', 'thus']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.274599542334 0.25644967241 107% => OK
Verbs: 0.160183066362 0.15541462614 103% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0755148741419 0.0836205057962 90% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0411899313501 0.0520304965353 79% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0205949656751 0.0272364105082 76% => OK
Prepositions: 0.0892448512586 0.125424944231 71% => OK
Participles: 0.0663615560641 0.0416121511921 159% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.76468479331 2.79052419416 99% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0320366132723 0.026700313972 120% => OK
Particles: 0.00228832951945 0.001811407834 126% => OK
Determiners: 0.160183066362 0.113004496875 142% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0228832951945 0.0255425247493 90% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0114416475973 0.0127820249294 90% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2492.0 2731.13054187 91% => OK
No of words: 406.0 446.07635468 91% => OK
Chars per words: 6.13793103448 6.12365571057 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48881294772 4.57801047555 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.381773399015 0.378187486979 101% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.332512315271 0.287650121315 116% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.209359605911 0.208842608468 100% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.128078817734 0.135150697306 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76468479331 2.79052419416 99% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 207.018472906 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.443349753695 0.469332199767 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 47.2922696195 52.1807786196 91% => OK
How many sentences: 16.0 20.039408867 80% => OK
Sentence length: 25.375 23.2022227129 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.176344669 57.7814097925 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 155.75 141.986410481 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.375 23.2022227129 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.5 0.724660767414 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.58251231527 84% => OK
Readability: 58.6262315271 51.9672348444 113% => OK
Elegance: 1.9381443299 1.8405768891 105% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.442757508997 0.441005458295 100% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.163047569124 0.135418324435 120% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.111930848881 0.0829849096947 135% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.682426847716 0.58762219726 116% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.158723596841 0.147661913831 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.226172272951 0.193483328276 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.108705609473 0.0970749176394 112% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.535053039124 0.42659136922 125% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0547938130822 0.0774707102158 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.324991577204 0.312017818177 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0674571815774 0.0698173142475 97% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.33743842365 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 6.87684729064 204% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.82512315271 0% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 2.0 6.46551724138 31% => OK
Negative topic words: 14.0 5.36822660099 261% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 2.82389162562 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 16.0 14.657635468 109% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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