Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increasingly more time to covering national news and less time to covering weather and local news. During the same time period, most of the complaints we received from viewers were concerned with the station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, several local businesses that used to run advertisements during our late-night news program have just cancelled 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 the coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs."
The argument statement says that in order to allure more viewers and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, the news channel have to restore the time devoted to weather and local news to it's former level. The evidences given to support this argument are : Impact of national news on the viewers, complaints of the viewers and contracts cancellation by the local advertising companies. However, the premises given are unable to justify or strenghten the argument. The reasons why this argument is rendered inconclusive are : wrong analogy between the national news and local news, Meager amount of data about the complaints and fallacious assumptions.
Firstly, the author has mentioned that over the past year the news channel are devoting increasing time to the the national news rather than the local and the weather news which ultimately resulting in decreasing number of viewers, but the author haven't mentioned about the previous time which were devoted to the local and weather news. Additionally, author haven't even mentioned about the time given to the national news now. Maybe the decrease in number of viewers can be due to the other reasons also like absurd content of the news, wrong forecast of weather etc. So, in the argument is inconclusive.
Secondly, the author said that complaints regarding the coverage of local and weather news are increasing, but the author haven't mentioned about the number of complaints that came in this period, also the number of viewers who used to watch and who still view the news on this channel are not mentioned. So, there is inadequacy of the data and to prove this argument right author have to provide more data regarding the complaints. Furthermore, the number of new viewers who joined the channel because of the national news progranne can even be much more in amount than the viewers who left, so it will still be more profitable for the news channel. Also, the revenues generated previously by showing local and weather new and the revenues generated now i.e. by showing national new is not given so, we can't say that the news channel is losing revenues.
Last but not the least, author mentioned that local business who used to advertise during the late-night program have cancelled their contracts, but this can be due to the other reasons too. For instance, the quality of their products is not upto that mark, that may also be the reason that they are going in loss now, so it's better they should stop advertising. There is also a possibility that the the comoany who used to advertise have changed their location now or they started a new occupation now thatswhy they had cancelled their contracts. So, the argument statement is invalid.
So, in sum i would like to conclude that the argument is full of fallacius assumptions and in order to prove this statement conclusive author has to give more data otherwise, this satement is inconclusive.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, still, as to, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2466.0 2260.96107784 109% => OK
No of words: 490.0 441.139720559 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03265306122 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70488508055 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60269413532 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.404081632653 0.468620217663 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 757.8 705.55239521 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 22.8473053892 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 79.1232230705 57.8364921388 137% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.058823529 119.503703932 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.8235294118 23.324526521 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.88235294118 5.70786347227 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.306318166374 0.218282227539 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.102904246985 0.0743258471296 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105772141351 0.0701772020484 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.171708246764 0.128457276422 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.132059510319 0.0628817314937 210% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 14.3799401198 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 48.3550499002 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.49 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 98.500998004 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.1389221557 119% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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: 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.