The following is a memorandum from the business manager of a listener-supported public radio station."For the past year, as part of an effort to broaden our supporter base, our Folk on the Air program has allocated less time to traditional American folk m

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The following is a memorandum from the business manager of a listener-supported public radio station.

"For the past year, as part of an effort to broaden our supporter base, our Folk on the Air program has allocated less time to traditional American folk music and more time to Latino music and world music. In recent months, many long-term supporters of our station have written to complain about what they describe as the un-American bias of the program. In addition, the local newspaper has published a recent editorial critical to our shift in programming. Therefore, in order to forestall any further adverse publicity for the station and to avoid the loss of additional listener-supporters, we should discontinue our current emphasis on Latino and world music and restore the time devoted to traditional American folk music to its former level."


Respond by writing an essay in which you discuss the specific evidence you would need to judge the validity of the argument and explain how this evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.

In a move to widen the supporter base, the radio station has allocated more time to Latino and world music at the expense of traditional American folk music for the past year. In response to this move, many long term supporters of the station have indited complains against the move. Moreover, the move was criticized by the local newspaper in an editorial. The author's idea of broadening the listeners of the station by allocating less time to American folk and more to Latino music and world music is incoherent. Changes made in the programming be made in compliance with the opinion of the listeners as they are the targets. However, it is unclear if any survey was taken prior to this move in order to find out about people's interests. It is quite natural for long term listeners to complain about the move as they naturally preffered the old program. Likewise, the author has not elaborated on the newspaper, which makes it unclear to comprehend what were they critical about.

The manager believes that the current emphasis on Latino music should be discontinued in order to forestall loss of additional listener supporters, by reverting back to the former mode. By doing this, the station would lose its current listeners that it would have mustered by the new move. Based on the letters of long term listeners and the recent article that appeared in the paper, it would be unwise to make a sudden change, as the station would be repeating the same mistake as the one it did a year ago. It is rather advisable to take people's opinion on the current program before makes any changes. If the survey reports are favorable to the new move, then is wouldn't require a change at all.

By allocating more time to the American folk, it could lose its current listeners, hence a conclusive decision has to be made after doing some research in order to be sure about the target audience. Moreover, suggestions can be taken from them in order to avoid further complains.

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Sentence: It is quite natural for long term listeners to complain about the move as they naturally preffered the old program.
Error: preffered Suggestion: preferred

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Number of Paragraphs: 3 5

better to have 5 paragraphs:

para 1: introduction. my choice: A or B. agree or disagree
para 2: reason 1
para 3: reason 2
para 4: reason 3 (optional)
para 5: conclusion

Better to put more contents to get higher marks. For issue essays, around 450+ words, for argument essays, around 400+ words.

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