The following appeared in a memorandum from the manager of WWAC radio station.
"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 presented argument states that WWAC radio station's listeners declined despite of population growth in listening area. To increase listeners radio should change music programs to news and talk format which is the format of popular radios in the area. In order to fully evaluate this argument, we need to have a significant amount of additional evidence. The argument could end up being much weaker than it seems, or it might actually be quite valid. In order to make that determination, we need to know more then analyze interests of people living in listening area. To get this information, survey need to be conducted, which includes specific questions about music programs whether people like or not, or they want to change type of music, or they want to change with news and talk format. Right now all this information is based on assumptions, which can strengthen the argument if true, or can weaken the argument also, if turns false.
The first assumption is that listeners don't like rock music format of radio, which declined radio listeners. There are many questions related to this assumption such as did number of listeners reduce after rock music program started on radio, which might have replaced any radio program which had large number of audience or rock music program was existing always and people use to like but due to change in music of any particular language or singer, listeners lost interest. After gathering this information only we can analyze that it is a good decision to replace rock music with something else.
The second assumption is that increased population know about radio but doesn't like rock music and radio need to make changes in the format to tailor their tastes with it. First question related to this assumption is whether new residents know about WWDC radio or not. May WWDC radio not do much publicity and most of the new listeners don't know about it. If it comes true, then radio need better publicity campign, not change in shows.
Due to above mentioned discrepencies, a cogent that changing radio format from rock music to new and talk will not be a grandiose solution to increase listeners, until a solid reason, proof and analysis support it. Thus, conducting a survey with specific questions about radio format, and then analyzing results can make a big difference to make this decision.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...hat determination, we need to know more then analyze interests of people living in l...
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Suggestion: don't
... The first assumption is that listeners dont like rock music format of radio, which ...
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Message: Did you mean 'used'?
Suggestion: used
... program was existing always and people use to like but due to change in music of a...
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Line 3, column 478, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “After” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...age or singer, listeners lost interest. After gathering this information only we can ...
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Suggestion: doesn't
...creased population know about radio but doesnt like rock music and radio need to make...
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Suggestion:
...w about radio but doesnt like rock music and radio need to make changes in the fo...
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...publicity and most of the new listeners dont know about it. If it comes true, then r...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, if, may, second, so, then, thus, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 12.9106741573 155% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1962.0 2235.4752809 88% => OK
No of words: 395.0 442.535393258 89% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96708860759 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45809453852 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51721711222 2.79657885939 90% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 215.323595506 87% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.473417721519 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 606.6 704.065955056 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 70.2601193779 60.3974514979 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.625 118.986275619 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6875 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.25 5.21951772744 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.239781587681 0.243740707755 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0927456760709 0.0831039109588 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0868779685466 0.0758088955206 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151470013419 0.150359130593 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.019386727684 0.0667264976115 29% => 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: 14.3 14.1392134831 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 100.480337079 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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