"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.
The argument provided is flawed for numerous reasons. Primarily the argument is based on the outward assumption that the complaints received from viewers concerned about the station's weather and local news coverage caused the withdrawal and cancellation of local businesses' advertising contracts.
Firstly, the argument fails to provide concrete evidence as to the nature of complaints received regarding the coverage of weather and local news. Although, the perception based on the argument provided will be about the reduction of time to weather and local news, this could be mere assumptions as the majority of the complaints could be attributed to several other reasons which could sporadically affect, most often negatively, subscribers and by extension to local businesses' deals. A presumption will be whether viewers of the late-night program are uncomfortable with the rescinding manner put up by the presenters of both national and local news, even, it could be the nature of the national news being mostly false or so many other reasons.
Also, the argument leaves so many unanswered questions. one of which is if adverts for local businesses have also been rescheduled to an inconvenient time, perhaps the frequency of meaningful placements has drastically reduced which is at the detriment of the local businesses and their stake.
More importantly, local businesses contract cancellation should be backed up with reasons for their actions and not mere hunch as the argument leaves us with so many doubts. This will then properly inform what conclusion and actions are necessary to avoid losing any further
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 8 15
No. of Words: 253 350
No. of Characters: 1346 1500
No. of Different Words: 135 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.988 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.32 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.869 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 99 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 85 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 64 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 43 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 31.625 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.739 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.625 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.462 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.728 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.188 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 295, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...f local businesses advertising contracts Firstly the argument fails to provide co...
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Line 3, column 739, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ng mostly false or so many other reasons Also the argument leaves so many unanswe...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...tly false or so many other reasons Also the argument leaves so many unanswered ...
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Line 5, column 290, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... of the local businesses and their stake More importantly local businesses contra...
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Line 7, column 273, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...re necessary to avoid losing any further
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, regarding, so, then, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 7.0 28.8173652695 24% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 55.5748502994 58% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1360.0 2260.96107784 60% => OK
No of words: 253.0 441.139720559 57% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.37549407115 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98822939669 4.56307096286 87% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85923510033 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 204.123752495 65% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.521739130435 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 424.8 705.55239521 60% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 1.0 19.7664670659 5% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 253.0 22.8473053892 1107% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 0.0 57.8364921388 0% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 1360.0 119.503703932 1138% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 253.0 23.324526521 1085% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 57.0 5.70786347227 999% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 8.20758483034 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.253022768964 0.218282227539 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.253022768964 0.0743258471296 340% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0701772020484 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145450521405 0.128457276422 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0964544798356 0.0628817314937 153% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 130.4 14.3799401198 907% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -193.78 48.3550499002 -401% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 0.0 7.1628742515 0% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 103.1 12.197005988 845% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 15.4 12.5979740519 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 20.55 8.32208582834 247% => Dale chall readability score is high.
difficult_words: 70.0 98.500998004 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 57.0 12.3882235529 460% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 103.2 11.1389221557 926% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 57.0 11.9071856287 479% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
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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