Two years ago, radio station WCQP in Rockville decided to increase the number of call-in advice programs that it broadcast; since that time, its share of the radio audience in the Rockville listening area has increased significantly. Given WCQP's recent success with call-in advice programming, and citing a nationwide survey indicating that many radio listeners are quite interested in such programs, the station manager of KICK in Medway recommends that KICK include more call-in advice programs in an attempt to gain a larger audience share in its listening area.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The stated argument appears to be relatively sound at the first glance. However, as more light is thrown on the issue and more detailed facts are concerned, it is easy to see that the argument suffers from several grave fallacies in its assumption as well as commits a false analogy. The reasons could be many in number and it is detailed in the following paragraphs.
The argument predicts that the recent success with call - in programming of the radio station WCQP is attributed to the change made in increasing the number of call in programs that it broadcast 2 years back. In addition to the above statement, it is mentioned that , at that time, it's share of radio audiences in the Rockville listening area had significantly increased.
Two facts can be stated which proves that the given information is inadequate and that it is logically irrelevant. first, success was noted only after 2 years, which is a long period and hence the entire scenario could have changed. so the success could have been due to any other reason taken place during that time. Or if it was due to the same reason, then this might have been a coincidence. Secondly, there is no proper percentage of increase mentioned with regards to the radio audience. By what percentile has the number increased? was there a drastic difference? These questions remain unanswered.
A mention about the nationwide survey is cited without any details about the survey. if the survey was at the national level, then there should be a clear-cut information on the mode and number of people who took part in the survey . there could be a possibility that a participant who was not an ardent listener of radio could have taken part in the survey. if that number was huge, then the information related to the survey could have been false.
Based on the above judgements, it is stated that KICK in Medway is likely to introduce the same program. Often, people's mindset change. A person interested in a particular program offered by a radio station need not be interested in the same type of program broadcasted by another radio station. so, it is heedless to say that a larger audience will be gained. success which may be applicable to one, need not imply for the other. By taking the mentioned step may not yield fruitful results unless practically adopted and analyzed, since nobody knows how much it could reach out to the public.
With the advent of latest technologies and humans being inclined to social networking sites, it is plausible that the number of radio listeners might not have increased.The fact that the details about the year in which the author noted the given argument might add-on to accepting or rejecting it. this view surely undermines the facts given in the argument.
To conclude, it can be stated that, success is attributed to various causes. With just a single cause, it is wrong to adopt a method full-fledged, which weakens the given argument. without proof, the author has decided that gaining a larger audience is possible by including more call in programs.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 524 350
No. of Characters: 2471 1500
No. of Different Words: 246 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.784 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.716 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.537 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 171 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 118 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 82 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 55 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 29.111 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 20.979 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.283 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.583 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.029 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 7 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, well, in addition, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 37.0 19.6327345309 188% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 23.0 13.6137724551 169% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 28.8173652695 118% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 55.5748502994 124% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2547.0 2260.96107784 113% => OK
No of words: 523.0 441.139720559 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86998087954 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78217453174 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64877206199 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 259.0 204.123752495 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495219885277 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 791.1 705.55239521 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.22255489022 213% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 19.7664670659 142% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 59.6903040532 57.8364921388 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.9642857143 119.503703932 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6785714286 23.324526521 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.35714285714 5.70786347227 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 7.0 5.15768463074 136% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 17.0 5.25449101796 324% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 8.20758483034 183% => 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: 0.245746972097 0.218282227539 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0570545216684 0.0743258471296 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0820085169987 0.0701772020484 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129934962603 0.128457276422 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.139839512255 0.0628817314937 222% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 14.3799401198 75% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 98.500998004 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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