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 of 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.
Business manager of a listener-supported public radio station has presented recommondations to get back its listner by discontinuing of Latino and world music and restoring radio format to previous level by broadcasting only American folk music. The author has structured his argumment on some stated and unstated assumptions, those are not substantiated and making the argument vague.
First, the arguar has not mentioned that what were the reasons because of which the radio broadcast format was changed. There would be some solid grounds on which Radio decided to allot more time to foreign music. It is possible that at that time, some survey was conducted showing that people were in favor to listen foreign music. So in that case, change in broadcast pattern will severly affect its listeners who want to listen both music types.
Secondly, the author has not stated that how many number of complaints have be launched against the current format. It is plausible that only few listners have not liked the new broadcasting style.
Thirdly, the manager has not conducted any survey to reach the reality, whether in real sensce people want to listen only traditional music. IN the absence of any solid proof, it might be determintal for radio to change its broadcast format.
And lastly, the arguar has mentioned that local newspaper has published an editorial against shifting in broadcast pattern. It might be possible that editor of the local news paper is some stubborn arthodex, who does not like change. The author has overlooked the indifferent response of other local news papers. It might be possible that complaining newspaper has some personal grudge with the radio channel, so he is trying to scold it.
Hence, in the present of above unexplaind question, the recommondation of Manager will not stand to be cogent, and if implemented, may yield unwarranted results. A careful analysis of the various underlying issues should be taken into account to facilitate a stronger argument.
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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: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 17 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 324 350
No. of Characters: 1637 1500
No. of Different Words: 180 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.243 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.052 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.725 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 121 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 86 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 57 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 37 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.25 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.105 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.438 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.33 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.33 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.068 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 46, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun number seems to be countable; consider using: 'many numbers'.
Suggestion: many numbers
...dly, the author has not stated that how many number of complaints have be launched against ...
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Line 3, column 77, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'been'.
Suggestion: been
...that how many number of complaints have be launched against the current format. It...
^^
Line 5, column 170, Rule ID: NEWS_PAPER[1]
Message: Did you mean 'newspaper'? This word sequence is usually spelled together.
Suggestion: newspaper
...ht be possible that editor of the local news paper is some stubborn arthodex, who does not...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, hence, if, lastly, look, may, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1680.0 2260.96107784 74% => OK
No of words: 324.0 441.139720559 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18518518519 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78049250061 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 204.123752495 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.552469135802 0.468620217663 118% => OK
syllable_count: 514.8 705.55239521 73% => 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
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.5166629646 57.8364921388 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.0 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.25 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5625 5.70786347227 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.119586889678 0.218282227539 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.035426732018 0.0743258471296 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0529628881771 0.0701772020484 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0609637645217 0.128457276422 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0609472747633 0.0628817314937 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.3799401198 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 12.82 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 98.500998004 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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