The following is a memorandum from the business manager of a television station.
"Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news. During this period, most of the complaints received from viewers were concerned with our station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, local businesses that used to advertise during our late-night news program have canceled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to our news programs and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should expand our coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
According to the memorandum, the bussiness manager belives that the station is facing problems because of the late night news schedule. And suggests that , by restoring the old time given to weather and local news, the news channel will get more viewers and the problem could be resolved. The manager makes these suggestion taking into account ceratin unwarranted assumptions as stated below.
First of all, the manager suspects that the compalaints recieved by the viewers who were concerned about the coverage of weather and local news did so because the national news program has a greater amount of time. There could be a possibility that the viewers who complaint are local and hence they do not want to see any national news at that time. If the station is situated in a small town, the people living there would be more interested in knowing more about the news about their twon rather that about the entire nation. There could also be a possibility, since this is a late night program, the viewers are the ones who come home late from work and do not want to view any tedious news and hence are complaining for a lighter news like the weather report or the local news program. If any of the above hold water, then the managers suggestion becomes enfeeble.
According to the memorandum, the manager speculates that the local business that used to advertise during the late-night news programs have withdrawn their contract due to more coverage given to the national news. This could not be true. The local business could be going into dept due to the advertisement cost and hence might have chosen to cancel the contract. There could also be a probability that the local business could be relocating somewhere and hence do not require their advertisment in this town. Since it was a local business, it shutting down due to losses could also be one of the reasons that the contract would have been scratched. If the manager can verify any of the above assumptions, then the recommendation could be taken into consideration.
Finally, it is a conjecture that if the coverage of weather and local news progam is increased, then the station would reieve more viewers. There could be a likelihood of this not happening. The promt does not mention anything about the station having problems with the reach of the programs. The local news and the weather report being a late-night show does not account to the overall react count of all the stations programs. A late-night show could have less viewers than a morning show or an evening show. Moreover, does the station have enough reports to present in the local and weather news program. By increasing the time, the reports of the progarm will also increase and hence the station will have to present more cases and information for the time duration. But that does not ocnfirm that the program will attract more viewers. If any of the above have merit, the managers submission is weakened
In conclusion, the promt given is made out of unjustified suppositions. If the manager is able to provide justifid evidence regarding the questions above , then the recommendation could be contemplated and studied furthur.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: managers'; manager's
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, hence, if, moreover, regarding, so, then, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 58.6224719101 101% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2636.0 2235.4752809 118% => OK
No of words: 538.0 442.535393258 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89962825279 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81610080973 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59919793474 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.418215613383 0.4932671777 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 818.1 704.065955056 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 14.0 4.99550561798 280% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.3476459993 60.3974514979 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.833333333 118.986275619 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4166666667 23.4991977007 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 5.21951772744 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.352515230705 0.243740707755 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.113273330286 0.0831039109588 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0977420088689 0.0758088955206 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.204382441781 0.150359130593 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.109177760753 0.0667264976115 164% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.8420337079 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.44 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.72 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 100.480337079 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.