“Three years ago when we surveyed our subscribers, they complained about the quality of the reporting and writing in the paper. Since that time, we have made a concerted effort to hire older, more experienced journalists. According to our most recent survey, these changes have made a vast improvement. Not only has our subscriber base grown by 13%, but they also rated us higher on both reporting and writing. Therefore, it is evident that to continue to increase our readership, we should hire the most experienced journalists we can find, and gradually fire our younger, less experienced reporters.”
The author concludes that we should hire more older, experienced journalist and fire the younger ones. The author provides improvement in the subscriber base and increased ratings as evidence for the same. However the author makes several major assumptions, which need to be reviewed, before a decision is made. In other words we need more evidence to establish causality. Apart from questions regarding the reprentativeness of the sample, the important questions that need to be answered is regarding the rise in the base, how high is 13%? Whether it is statistically significant? And also there is a need to assess the role of the older, more experienced journalist in the organisation. And whether firing young will be useful.
Firstly, the author states an increase of 13% customer base and increase in ratings as evidence. We need to assess the relative importance of 13% rise and whether said figure is statistically sinificant, before basing our analysis on this figure. If it is infact significant, Since the memo states the 13% rise in the subscriber base as one of the reasons, we need to assess whether the said increase is on account of better reporting and writing? This can be ascertained by conducting a survey of the old customers asking whether they find a change in the writing and another survey of new customers asking them why they chose to subscribe. The first question will help us know for certain whether the old customers do infact feel that quality has improved or the higher ratings indicate the opinions of new users who have shifted form other newspapers. In case if the original customers do not reveal a quality improvement, it could be that new costumers shifted because our newspaper was better than others despite not improving. The second survey would help us answer that precisely.
Furthermore, If the customers do infact report a increase in quality, the next question that arises is whether the said increase could be attributed to the old journalist. It could be that younger journalist improved their quality owing to the introduction of senior journalist. In which case we shouldnt fire young journalist as old journalist make young journalists performance better. alternatively it could also be that the better ratings are a result of the older journalists writing better articles compared to the younger journalist. This question could be answered by conducting a random study by providing people with articles form both younger and older journalists and ascertain their respective ratings.
Finally, If 13% is in fact a significant no. and the said increase in base and ratings is on account of better journalism attributed to older journalists, the newspaper should hire more older journalist, however if younger and older journalist recieve similar reviews on thier article, there is a need to revaluate the hiring policy and encouraging some sort of mentorship programmes, as hiring young journalist is cheaper and has long run benefits for company.
Even though the author presents a good idea, we don’t have enough evidence to conclude that firing younger journalists is the way to go forward. So, author needs more evidence to back his claim.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 523 350
No. of Characters: 2619 1500
No. of Different Words: 225 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.782 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.008 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.805 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 205 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 152 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 105 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 71 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.773 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 15.015 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.591 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.31 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.504 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.17 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 42, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[2]
Message: Use only 'older' (without 'more') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: older
...he author concludes that we should hire more older, experienced journalist and fire the yo...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 207, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...eased ratings as evidence for the same. However the author makes several major assumpti...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 306, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...gnificant, Since the memo states the 13% rise in the subscriber base as one of th...
^^
Line 7, column 48, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...more, If the customers do infact report a increase in quality, the next question ...
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Line 7, column 297, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: shouldn't
... of senior journalist. In which case we shouldnt fire young journalist as old journalist...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 357, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'journalists'' or 'journalist's'?
Suggestion: journalists'; journalist's
...journalist as old journalist make young journalists performance better. alternatively it co...
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Line 7, column 389, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Alternatively
...e young journalists performance better. alternatively it could also be that the better rating...
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Line 7, column 576, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...list. This question could be answered by conducting a random study by providing p...
^^
Line 11, column 182, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[2]
Message: Use only 'older' (without 'more') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: older
... journalists, the newspaper should hire more older journalist, however if younger and olde...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, regarding, second, so, apart from, in fact, sort of, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2695.0 2260.96107784 119% => OK
No of words: 522.0 441.139720559 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16283524904 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77988695657 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88613851208 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 204.123752495 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.44061302682 0.468620217663 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 840.6 705.55239521 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 2.70958083832 295% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 79.5079922607 57.8364921388 137% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.291666667 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.75 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.375 5.70786347227 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 8.20758483034 207% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => 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: 0.149362221464 0.218282227539 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0467491607494 0.0743258471296 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0438210732649 0.0701772020484 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.089719874141 0.128457276422 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0273544541014 0.0628817314937 44% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.3799401198 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 98.500998004 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 12.3882235529 57% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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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.