"Several factors indicate that radio station KNOW should shift its programming from rock-and-roll music to a continuous news format. Consider, for example, that the number of people in our listening area over fifty years of age has increased dramatically, while our total number of listeners has declined. Also, music stores in our area report decreased sales of recorded music. Finally, continuous news stations in neighboring cities have been very successful. The switch from rock-and-roll music to 24-hour news will attract older listeners and secure KNOW radio's future."
The author of argument says that, “The radio station’s listeners are decreasing while listeners of continuous news in neighboring cities have been successful, so the KNOW radio channel should switch from music to news for safer future”. To examine this argument we need to check weakness and strength of the argument. The conclusion may be valid or it may erode the author’s conclusion. To reach the final conclusion let us analyze the argument first.
Firstly, author says that, KNOW radio station should shift its programming from rock-and-roll music to continuous news format because several factors affecting to this KNOW channel. Further he says that, number of people listening in our area over fifty years ahead are increased dramatically and that’s why total number of listeners are declined. In order to evaluate this argument we need a solid proof that, old people listen only news and not music. Also we require proof for how many listeners are actually decreased. It may be possible that, more interesting music channels are arrived and whole crowd is moved there, and the reason behind declining crowd is not rock-and-roll music or either news. Author made assumptions and not provided proof for the same.
Moreover, he says that, music sales in our area report decreased sales of recorded music. So there may be chance that, people start listening music online instead of recorded music. What is the connection between decreased sales and people are must listening news? Author should provide evidence for that, unless we can’t reach the conclusion.
Along with that, he further says that, the switch from rock-and-roll music to 24-hour news will attract old listeners and secure KNOW radio’s future. In order to reach conclusion we need a piece of evidence that, old people don’t listen rock-and-roll-music and they can listen 24-hour news. We can erode this argument by saying that, my grandma and her friends love to listen rock and roll music and they can listen that 24 hours a day. We don’t have any evidence about the old people’s affection for news and rock-and-roll music. Also, if in neighboring area the news channel is working good does not implies that, in our area this news channel will work, author made logical fallacies and it’s vague. We can subvert the argument by saying that, BLOW radio station started playing 24 hour news channel and within a month this channel bankrupted. We need the solid piece of evidence so that we can reach the conclusion.
In conclusion I would like to summarize that, the argument may sound logical at first glance but, author made lots of assumptions and failed to provide evidence for the same. To reach the conclusion we need to know about, old people’s demand, the actual listeners of radio channel, and lot more. He may have made right assumptions, but for us it’s all vague because he failed to provide proof.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 24 15
No. of Words: 484 350
No. of Characters: 2341 1500
No. of Different Words: 201 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.69 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.837 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.455 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 156 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 111 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 46 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.167 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.619 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.542 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.348 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.526 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.22 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 163, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...hboring cities have been successful, so the KNOW radio channel should switch from music ...
^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 455, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
... people listen only news and not music. Also we require proof for how many listeners...
^^^^
Line 7, column 603, Rule ID: DOES_X_HAS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'imply'? As 'do' is already inflected, the verb cannot also be inflected.
Suggestion: imply
...e news channel is working good does not implies that, in our area this news channel wil...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 603, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'imply'
Suggestion: imply
...e news channel is working good does not implies that, in our area this news channel wil...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 796, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'channel' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'channels'.
Suggestion: channels
...io station started playing 24 hour news channel and within a month this channel bankrup...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, if, may, moreover, so, while, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 12.9520958084 185% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 11.1786427146 233% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 28.8173652695 187% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2444.0 2260.96107784 108% => OK
No of words: 481.0 441.139720559 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08108108108 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68313059816 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59312988403 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 204.123752495 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.438669438669 0.468620217663 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 712.8 705.55239521 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.7436550467 57.8364921388 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.833333333 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0416666667 23.324526521 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.33333333333 5.70786347227 58% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.318070476779 0.218282227539 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104143692259 0.0743258471296 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0985229383789 0.0701772020484 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.198433933626 0.128457276422 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.118102558683 0.0628817314937 188% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.22 8.32208582834 87% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 98.500998004 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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