"To reverse a decline in listener numbers, our owners have decided that WWAC must change from its current rock-music format. The decline has occurred despite population growth in our listening area, but that growth has resulted mainly from people moving here after their retirement. We must make listeners of these new residents. We could switch to a music format tailored to their tastes, but a continuing decline in local sales of recorded music suggests limited interest in music. Instead we should change to a news and talk format, a form of radio that is increasingly popular in our area."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The manager of WWAC radio station gave some suggestions, appeared in a memorandum that radio should change its formate according to the taste of local listener. He has drawn this conclusion on the basis of some assumptions. However, if these assumptions are not substantiated, then would seriously weaken the argument.
First, the author has supposed that popuplation of the area has increase because of shifting of people here after retirement. There is no supported evidence for the shifting and the increase in the number of the residents. So, the author suggestes that radio should convert its program according to the taste of new residents, but has not provided any evidence, what new comers like the most.
Secondly, the author suggests that, radio should convert from rock-music format to the format liked by the new resident than, he himself denyed his suggestion by explaing that the sale of recorded music has decline recently showing that the new comers are not found of music. Here, again no statistical evidence is presented to coorelate the sale of music to the taste of people. It might be possible, people are listening music form pyrated version and share with each other through there cell phones. In this case, there is no need for people to puchase music form shops.
Third assumption on which the argument is based is that, the radio should convert to news and talk show format. However, this assumption again is unsubstantiated because, there is no evidence of type of listener radio has. And the youth, genrally is indifferent to the news and talk show, so it might cause a greater decrease in clintage.
Hence, it can be infered that the argument is flawed due to its reliance on unwrranted assumptions. To accept this argument, above mentioned areas should be addressed. The author can bring more persuative evidences to convince the reader about change in radio format.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 16 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 315 350
No. of Characters: 1542 1500
No. of Different Words: 163 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.213 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.895 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.555 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 108 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 80 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 60 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 31 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.688 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.312 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.326 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.326 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.101 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...d for people to puchase music form shops Third assumption on which the argument i...
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Line 4, column 244, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ener radio has And the youth genrally is indifferent to the news and talk show so...
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Line 5, column 263, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... the reader about change in radio format
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, third
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1551.0 2260.96107784 69% => OK
No of words: 315.0 441.139720559 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.92380952381 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5487813202 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 204.123752495 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.488888888889 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 494.1 705.55239521 70% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 1.0 19.7664670659 5% => 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: 315.0 22.8473053892 1379% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 0.0 57.8364921388 0% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 1551.0 119.503703932 1298% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 315.0 23.324526521 1351% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 65.0 5.70786347227 1139% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 8.20758483034 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.145531884251 0.218282227539 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.145531884251 0.0743258471296 196% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0701772020484 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.077574225528 0.128457276422 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0437961722924 0.0628817314937 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 159.2 14.3799401198 1107% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -248.25 48.3550499002 -513% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 0.0 7.1628742515 0% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 126.1 12.197005988 1034% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 12.74 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 22.62 8.32208582834 272% => Dale chall readability score is high.
difficult_words: 67.0 98.500998004 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 55.0 12.3882235529 444% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 128.0 11.1389221557 1149% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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