In the given argument the business manager asserts that we should restore time assigned to weather and local news to its former level. He mentions that it is necessary as complaints received from viewers were concerned with stations coverage of weather and local news. Additionally he states that advertising contracts from local businesses have gone down and to attract new viewers and avoid furthur decline in advertising revenue his suggestion must be followed. The aurgument seems convining initially although a complete scrutinity tells us that it has many loopholes and lacks strong evidence.
Firstly, The author has not stated what kind of complaints are received regarding the weather and local news coverage. It might be possible that the complaints are related to presentation of news and weather and nothing about the reduced time on the coverage of news and weather. Also the author fails to give evidence regarding how many complaints have been made and the number of complaint makers. It might be possible that only one person is registering complaint many times.
Secondly,the author has not provided any statistics regarding the cancellation of advertising contarcts. For example one or two cancelled contracts might not affect the news channel. Also it is possible that cancellation of contracts is due to overall reduced popularity of channel and has no connection with reduced time alloted for weather and local news.
Third, author fails to provide evidence as to how restoring time of weather and local news is going to attract new viewers to program. A television station earns viewers and popularity because of its overall content and popularity of other programs not just because of news and weather programms. Which means restoring time of weather and local news is not going to help attract new viewers as the other programmes on station might be unpopular.
Hence the author fails to provide clear and strong evidence for the given suggestion. This makes the argument weak and inconvincible.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 325 350
No. of Characters: 1673 1500
No. of Different Words: 152 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.246 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.148 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.662 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 126 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 111 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 68 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.312 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.381 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.438 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.366 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.608 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.121 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 270, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Additionally,
...ons coverage of weather and local news. Additionally he states that advertising contracts fr...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 281, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...me on the coverage of news and weather. Also the author fails to give evidence regar...
^^^^
Line 5, column 9, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , the
...tering complaint many times. Secondly,the author has not provided any statistics ...
^^^^
Line 5, column 184, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...acts might not affect the news channel. Also it is possible that cancellation of con...
^^^^
Line 5, column 274, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... is due to overall reduced popularity of channel and has no connection with reduc...
^^
Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...ammes on station might be unpopular. Hence the author fails to provide clear and s...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, hence, regarding, second, secondly, so, third, as to, for example, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 11.1786427146 179% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1710.0 2260.96107784 76% => OK
No of words: 324.0 441.139720559 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.27777777778 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73861278753 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 204.123752495 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.469135802469 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 527.4 705.55239521 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.2940412303 57.8364921388 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.875 119.503703932 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.25 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.70786347227 105% => 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 : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.303617315711 0.218282227539 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109381335827 0.0743258471296 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0960049860862 0.0701772020484 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.160746194097 0.128457276422 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0901993961848 0.0628817314937 143% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.3799401198 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.5979740519 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 98.500998004 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
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
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