“In a recent citywide poll, fifteen percent more residents said that they watch television programs about the visual arts than was the case in a poll conducted five years ago. During these past five years, the number of people visiting our city’s arts museums has increased by similar percentage. Since the corporate funding that supports public television, where most of visual arts programs appear, is now being threatened with severe cuts, we can expect that attendance at our city’s museums will also start to decrease. Thus some of the city’s funds supporting arts should be reallocated to public television.”
Discuss how well reasoned you find this argument. Point out flaws in the argument's logic and analyze the argument's underlying assumptions. In addition, evaluate how supporting evidence is used and what evidence might counter the argument's conclusion. You may also discuss what additional evidence could be used to strengthen the argument or what changes would make the argument more logically sound.
The argument states that increase in visual art programs on television has led to an increase in visitors at the city's arts museums. It also goes on to state that reduction in public television funding by corporates will eventually lead to reduced attentance at the city's museums. This arguments is based on multiple assumptions that are not substantiated.
Firstly, the arguement does not throw any light on whether any other external or internal factor has led to increase in attendance at the city museums. Factors other than televsion, like reduced entry ticket prices or a new attarction at the museums can also lead to higher interest by the public. The arguement just blatantly assumes that viewership on television and city museum attandence are direct related. It can also be that viewers that enjoy art on television do not feel the need to visit the musuems and the people who VISIT museums are they ones that do not have access or not enjoy art on screen.
Secondly, the argument states that televesion is the medium on which most of the art appears. The poll does not throw any light on whether it the medium with the highest consumption. Other mediums like newspaper or the internet can be avenues where most of the consumers appreciate art. And these are the factors that drive visits to the city musuems. Therefore cutting down on corporate funding in televison will probabily not have much impact on the musuems.
To strengthen the agrument, the author must looks for more evidence to support his course of action. As currently the arguement is unfounded.
- “In a recent citywide poll, fifteen percent more residents said that they watch television programs about the visual arts than was the case in a poll conducted five years ago. During these past five years, the number of people visiting our city’s arts 69
- “In a recent citywide poll, fifteen percent more residents said that they watch television programs about the visual arts than was the case in a poll conducted five years ago. During these past five years, the number of people visiting our city’s arts 50
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 266 350
No. of Characters: 1288 1500
No. of Different Words: 145 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.039 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.842 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.544 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 96 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 73 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 47 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.964 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.429 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.323 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.543 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.04 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 282, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: These
...educed attentance at the citys museums. This arguments is based on multiple assumpti...
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Line 1, column 297, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[4]
Message: You should probably use: 'are'.
Suggestion: are
...ce at the citys museums. This arguments is based on multiple assumptions that are ...
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Line 4, column 611, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...have access or not enjoy art on screen. Secondly, the argument states that telev...
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Line 6, column 353, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
... that drive visits to the city musuems. Therefore cutting down on corporate funding in te...
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Line 6, column 462, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ly not have much impact on the musuems. To strengthen the agrument, the author m...
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Line 8, column 102, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...idence to support his course of action. As currently the arguement is unfounded.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, look, second, secondly, so, then, therefore
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.6327345309 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1318.0 2260.96107784 58% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 266.0 441.139720559 60% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95488721805 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03850299372 4.56307096286 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62396320135 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 204.123752495 70% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.533834586466 0.468620217663 114% => OK
syllable_count: 414.0 705.55239521 59% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.1751691451 57.8364921388 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.1428571429 119.503703932 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.64285714286 5.70786347227 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.15648984915 0.218282227539 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0500466524595 0.0743258471296 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0496012481709 0.0701772020484 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0845678082241 0.128457276422 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0380789938538 0.0628817314937 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.3799401198 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.43 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.32208582834 108% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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