The business manager of a television station states that over the past year they have devoted more time for national news and less time to weather and local news as part of their late night broadcast. This, according to him has led to decrease in revenues from local businesses. Thus he recommends that they should restore the time devoted to weather and local news to it’s former level. However, this argument is flawed in various aspects.
First of all, the author tell that they have increased the time devoted to the national news and are devoting less time for the local news and weather reports. But, the author fails to explain, by how much duration has the broadcasting of the national news increased. If it has been increased by a small duration, consider ten minutes, then it’s not a significant change and hence it may not affect the business operations of the television station. Also, the author doesn’t provide information regarding when such a change was made and why was it made. It may happen that there is a dearth of local news and thus the news channel revised their airing schedules.
Further, the author claims that they have received complaints from the viewers, but it is not clear how reliable the complaints are. It needs to be known who made those complaints. For example, it may happen that the complaints are not large but have been made by a few viewers repeatedly. Also, it mentions that the complaints were regarding the station’s coverage of weather and local news, but it is not clear what were the subject of those complaints. It may happen that the viewers are not satisfied by the reliability of the information provided. The author has assumed that the viewers are not happy with the reduced time of the weather and local news. There is a high chance that the viewers want further reduction in the airing duration of the local news and weather.
It is unclear why the author has considered only national news and weather and local news as the only possible programs. Is there a dearth of entertainment or information on the Earth. There could be broadcasts on international news or maybe another informative programs. If the author has considered those options with a great degree deliberation, then it is not at all apparent in the argument.
Also, the author states that it is loosing on revenues from local businesses, but no information is provided regarding revenues from national businesses. The author needs to provide such information in order to enable the reader to properly analyze the argument. It would be wise for the author to consider the points mentioned above. Generally, it can be stated that the author has failed to make a convincing argument.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 280, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...ease in revenues from local businesses. Thus he recommends that they should restore ...
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Line 7, column 60, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ates that it is loosing on revenues from local businesses, but no information is ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'regarding', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'for example', 'first of all']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.219230769231 0.25644967241 85% => OK
Verbs: 0.182692307692 0.15541462614 118% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0903846153846 0.0836205057962 108% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0442307692308 0.0520304965353 85% => OK
Pronouns: 0.05 0.0272364105082 184% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.101923076923 0.125424944231 81% => OK
Participles: 0.0557692307692 0.0416121511921 134% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.68645174603 2.79052419416 96% => OK
Infinitives: 0.025 0.026700313972 94% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.117307692308 0.113004496875 104% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0153846153846 0.0255425247493 60% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0134615384615 0.0127820249294 105% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2732.0 2731.13054187 100% => OK
No of words: 463.0 446.07635468 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.90064794816 6.12365571057 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63868890866 4.57801047555 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.336933045356 0.378187486979 89% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.257019438445 0.287650121315 89% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.19222462203 0.208842608468 92% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.116630669546 0.135150697306 86% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68645174603 2.79052419416 96% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 207.018472906 93% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.414686825054 0.469332199767 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 45.7978119058 52.1807786196 88% => OK
How many sentences: 24.0 20.039408867 120% => OK
Sentence length: 19.2916666667 23.2022227129 83% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.7532928708 57.7814097925 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.833333333 141.986410481 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2916666667 23.2022227129 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.541666666667 0.724660767414 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.58251231527 56% => OK
Readability: 44.9936105112 51.9672348444 87% => OK
Elegance: 1.36111111111 1.8405768891 74% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.474731916999 0.441005458295 108% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.149138710009 0.135418324435 110% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.101821259332 0.0829849096947 123% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.567402733523 0.58762219726 97% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.145970791782 0.147661913831 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.197451694898 0.193483328276 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.135204495977 0.0970749176394 139% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.467456750319 0.42659136922 110% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.117395904209 0.0774707102158 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.344028307795 0.312017818177 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.106115714024 0.0698173142475 152% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.33743842365 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 6.87684729064 204% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.82512315271 62% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 6.46551724138 108% => OK
Negative topic words: 13.0 5.36822660099 242% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.82389162562 106% => OK
Total topic words: 23.0 14.657635468 157% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 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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