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

In this argument, the speaker argues that over the past year the news program increased time to national news and thus decrease the weather and local news. Therefore they received complaints by viewers and their advertising revenues declined. In order to attract more viewers and avoid losing any further advertising revenues, they need to expand coverage of weather and local news on all news programs. However, I find this argument unconving in some respects.

To begin with, the exact number of complaints they received is not clear. Most of complaints are about their coverage of weahter and local news, yet the totall number of complaints might be significantly small compared to the tremendous number of viewers of their news program. And there may be more viewers who like national news due in great part to the program's change on time of schedule.

And the fact that advertising contracts were cancelled does not necessarily have to do with their news program. The speaker ignored other critical factors. For instance, their whole nation was suffering a economic crisis. And for the companies who do the advertising, they has to cut the buget of advertising on the speaker's news program in order to get through the crisis. And there is a good chance that speaker ignores that what decides a company's advertising revenues is their programs quality. During the past year their program might not make the program cautionsly and the advertisers felt bored seeing the programs, therefore they cancelled the revenues. Further investigation is required to figure out the ultimate reason causing the speaker's program's lose.

Even if their decision had a negative effect, there is no guarantee that they can achieve attracting more and avoid lose if they expand coverage of weather and local news. If the advertisers as well as the viewers are gone, they may never come back. Furthermore, expanding our coverage of weather and local news on all news programs is unwise. The speaker did not do any research and analyse to prove the rate of success. After all, the just manulpinate the late-night news program which is not core business. The other programs might be more superior and need cautious preserve.

Proper research and analysis on similar lines needs to be done before coming to a conclusion that expand coverage of weather and local news can help. Since the speaker does not do any thing of such sort, the argument falls short of the convincing factor and needs more thotough insight.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 157, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...us decrease the weather and local news. Therefore they received complaints by viewers and...
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Line 3, column 75, Rule ID: MOST_SOME_OF_NNS[1]
Message: After 'Most of', you should use 'the' ('Most of the complaints') or simply say ''Most complaints''.
Suggestion: Most of the complaints; Most complaints
... complaints they received is not clear. Most of complaints are about their coverage of weahter and...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 204, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...tance, their whole nation was suffering a economic crisis. And for the companies ...
^
Line 5, column 274, Rule ID: NON3PRS_VERB[2]
Message: The pronoun 'they' must be used with a non-third-person form of a verb: 'have'
Suggestion: have
... companies who do the advertising, they has to cut the buget of advertising on the ...
^^^
Line 5, column 317, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'speakers'' or 'speaker's'?
Suggestion: speakers'; speaker's
... to cut the buget of advertising on the speakers news program in order to get through th...
^^^^^^^^
Line 10, column 181, Rule ID: ANY_BODY[2]
Message: Did you mean 'anything'?
Suggestion: anything
...can help. Since the speaker does not do any thing of such sort, the argument falls short ...
^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
furthermore, however, if, may, so, therefore, thus, well, after all, as to, for instance, as well as, to begin with

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 11.1786427146 179% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalization wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2093.0 2260.96107784 93% => OK
No of words: 414.0 441.139720559 94% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05555555556 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51076378781 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56647826032 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.478260869565 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 637.2 705.55239521 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.4738373532 57.8364921388 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.1363636364 119.503703932 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8181818182 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.22727272727 5.70786347227 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 6.88822355289 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.384926389222 0.218282227539 176% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.115250666815 0.0743258471296 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.120427301658 0.0701772020484 172% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.232584445499 0.128457276422 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.113105325799 0.0628817314937 180% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.3799401198 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.08 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?

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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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