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 time 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 just canceled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to the program and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level
In the argument, the arguer concludes that the complaints that they received recently and those canceled advertising contracts are attributed to less time to weather and local news. It seems reasonable at first glance, but it in fact is doubtful and farfetched.
To begin with, the arguer claims that less time devoting into weather and local news coverage leads to the increased complaints about weather and local news coverage. He or she assumes that those complaints that the company received are all about the coverage is not long enough. However, several questions need to be answered to determine if this assumption is indeed warranted. It is possible that the customers complainted about the quality of weather and local news. It is also possible that some audiences even think the company could cut more time of coverage of weather and local news, they prefer more national news. Thus, the arguer needs to provide more detailed information about what the customers were complaining about to persude us to believe his suggestions.
Furthermore, the arguer implies that the reason local businesses canceled their contracts with this company is because the shorted time in local news and weather coverage. However, the business manager fails to offer further evidence to confirm this assumption. What if the reason why those business companies stop corperating with this television station because of their own business issues, like they do not have enough time to spend in their advertising? What if the reason they do not want to do business with this television station because of they do not like what the station covers in the local news coverage? To bolster the argument, the manager supposes to rule out these alternative explanations.
Last, the business manager suggests the company to restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level. Underlying this suggestion is an unwarranted assumption that more viewers and business companies would come to this company if they restore the time for weather and local news. Neverthless, it is possible these are more viewers who like national news more than local news. So, this would not help unless the company does some research about the intersts of audience before they make this decision. Moreover, maybe the company could longer their time for local news and weather, but is it necessary to restore it to former level?
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 540, Rule ID: BECAUSE_OF_I[1]
Message: Probable usage error. Use 'because they' instead.
Suggestion: because they
...o business with this television station because of they do not like what the station covers in ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'so', 'thus', 'in fact', 'to begin with']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.232941176471 0.25644967241 91% => OK
Verbs: 0.167058823529 0.15541462614 107% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0964705882353 0.0836205057962 115% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0447058823529 0.0520304965353 86% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0541176470588 0.0272364105082 199% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.108235294118 0.125424944231 86% => OK
Participles: 0.0235294117647 0.0416121511921 57% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.56377931769 2.79052419416 92% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0494117647059 0.026700313972 185% => Less infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.110588235294 0.113004496875 98% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00941176470588 0.0255425247493 37% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0141176470588 0.0127820249294 110% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2409.0 2731.13054187 88% => OK
No of words: 392.0 446.07635468 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.14540816327 6.12365571057 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44960558625 4.57801047555 97% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.359693877551 0.378187486979 95% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.311224489796 0.287650121315 108% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.198979591837 0.208842608468 95% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.117346938776 0.135150697306 87% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56377931769 2.79052419416 92% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 207.018472906 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.43112244898 0.469332199767 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 45.2988659179 52.1807786196 87% => OK
How many sentences: 18.0 20.039408867 90% => OK
Sentence length: 21.7777777778 23.2022227129 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.4120791246 57.7814097925 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.833333333 141.986410481 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7777777778 23.2022227129 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.666666666667 0.724660767414 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.14285714286 78% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.58251231527 28% => OK
Readability: 52.9002267574 51.9672348444 102% => OK
Elegance: 1.37168141593 1.8405768891 75% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.463025371862 0.441005458295 105% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.146379820512 0.135418324435 108% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.143729648305 0.0829849096947 173% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.562842717078 0.58762219726 96% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.144872750508 0.147661913831 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.208621512276 0.193483328276 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10954018514 0.0970749176394 113% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.466045735228 0.42659136922 109% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.00740684747415 0.0774707102158 10% => Paragraphs are so close to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.34841558871 0.312017818177 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.052585743371 0.0698173142475 75% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.33743842365 60% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.87684729064 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.82512315271 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 6.46551724138 77% => OK
Negative topic words: 9.0 5.36822660099 168% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
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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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.