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 discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The author makes a connection between reducing the amount of local news and weather coverage with the complaints received and canceling the advertisement contracts. However, the author doesn't pay attention to the number of complaints received or don't mention any evidence related to other possible reasons that might help cancel the contracts. By providing these evidences he/she mistakenly concludes that we should restore the news to its former level.
First, the author mentions that most of the complaints received from viewers were concerned with station level of coverage. However, he/she fails to be punctilious in noticing the amounts of complaints. Perhaps our overall complaints reduced by 20% and in turn the former complaints about news coverage reduced as well. It's not fair to judge only by data we have now and conclude because we have no idea of what was going on before.
The author mentions the late night news itself and we don't provide any information about its viewers. It might be the other programs' viewer that complained about other coverage policies, we just don't know. Because most of the viewers that care more about local news especially weather precast don't watch the TV at late night. We don't know about the watching pattern of the local residents. By providing more detailed information we can see the whole picture of what's happening to our viewers.
Finally the original reason behind the canceling the contracts might be other things. For example, perhaps they increase the price for advertisement of maybe companies find another local network that works better for them. Without paying any attention to these possible scenarios we cannot conclude that with restoring the news coverage to its former level we can immediately attract the lost contracts.
To sum, based on the information presented in the argument and having no idea about the detail information about complaints and also the pattern of the hours that viewers spend in front of TVs, it's difficult to conclude that with restoring the former level we could re-attract the lost local businesses. However with providing more precise information we could have a better understanding of what should we decide.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, may, so, well, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 19.6327345309 25% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 28.8173652695 132% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1863.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 356.0 441.139720559 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23314606742 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34372677135 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6200668593 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 204.123752495 84% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.483146067416 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 561.6 705.55239521 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.6776228724 57.8364921388 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.588235294 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9411764706 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.58823529412 5.70786347227 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 16.0 5.25449101796 305% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.143760109103 0.218282227539 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0566026296544 0.0743258471296 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0575620707864 0.0701772020484 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0884266166919 0.128457276422 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0428876819622 0.0628817314937 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.3799401198 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 98.500998004 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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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.