Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increasingly more time to covering national news and less time to covering weather and local news. During the same time period, most of the complaints we received from viewers were concerned with the station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, several local businesses that used to run advertisements during our late-night news program have just cancelled 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 the coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs.
The business manager comes to a conclusion that the channel should start devoting time again to weather and local news like before to attract it's viewers back. The author provides certain reasons like local businesses cancelled their advertising contracts and viewers complaining obout the coverage of the weather and local news.However,I think that the author overlooks certain flaws which make the argument weak.
Firstly, author shows no relation between the business advertise and the late-night programs.Local businesses might have cancelled their contracts because of some other reason .May be the advertising wasn't helping the business in increasing the revenue or maybe they got a better deal with some other news station so they shifted there.In that case restoring the weather and local news to its former time will not help.Moreover even if the local businesses return to the channel,thers's no guarantee that the news station would not lose money.They could be other costs which the channel would not be able to recover.For example, The station might be hiring more journalists and reporter compared to past years or its could be the expensive equipments that are used .Therefore, to ensure that the station will not lose money author should dismiss the assumption with proper evidence.
Secondly, the complaints from the viewer will be because of the poor quality of news or the way the news is presented.There may be issue with the channel's coverage or the anchor isn't properly saying out the news.It could also be possible that people are more busier in the life now than they were in the past years and hence they don't get time to watch the news.In that case again restoring the weather and local news to its former time will not help. What if even after restoring the weather and local news station is unable to get it's viewers back ? Then it would again cost the channel a huge amount of money.
In absence of the above mentioned flaws and proper evidence by the author,his argument is weak and unpersuasive.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 8 2
No. of Sentences: 8 15
No. of Words: 351 350
No. of Characters: 1665 1500
No. of Different Words: 167 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.328 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.744 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.298 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 108 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 84 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 48 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 29 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 43.875 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 28.729 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.461 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.722 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.121 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 330, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: However
... coverage of the weather and local news.However,I think that the author overlooks certa...
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Line 1, column 337, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , I
...ge of the weather and local news.However,I think that the author overlooks certain...
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Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Local
...s advertise and the late-night programs.Local businesses might have cancelled their c...
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Line 3, column 176, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...r contracts because of some other reason .May be the advertising wasnt helping the...
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Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: May
...contracts because of some other reason .May be the advertising wasnt helping the bu...
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Line 3, column 182, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[8]
Message: The proper name in singular (May) must be used with a third-person verb: 'is'.
Suggestion: is
...racts because of some other reason .May be the advertising wasnt helping the busin...
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Line 3, column 201, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wasn't
...me other reason .May be the advertising wasnt helping the business in increasing the ...
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Suggestion: In
...ther news station so they shifted there.In that case restoring the weather and loc...
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Suggestion: Moreover
...l news to its former time will not help.Moreover even if the local businesses return to ...
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Line 3, column 420, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Moreover,
...l news to its former time will not help.Moreover even if the local businesses return to ...
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Suggestion: , therss
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Suggestion: They
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Suggestion: For
...he channel would not be able to recover.For example, The station might be hiring mo...
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Line 3, column 764, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
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...e the expensive equipments that are used .Therefore, to ensure that the station wi...
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Suggestion: Therefore
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Suggestion: There
...f news or the way the news is presented.There may be issue with the channels coverage...
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Line 5, column 147, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'channels'' or 'channel's'?
Suggestion: channels'; channel's
...s presented.There may be issue with the channels coverage or the anchor isnt properly sa...
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Line 5, column 179, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...ith the channels coverage or the anchor isnt properly saying out the news.It could a...
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Suggestion: It
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Line 5, column 255, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[2]
Message: Use only 'busier' (without 'more') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: busier
... could also be possible that people are more busier in the life now than they were in the p...
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Line 5, column 331, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
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Suggestion: In
...ce they dont get time to watch the news.In that case again restoring the weather a...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...o its former time will not help. What if even after restoring the weather and loc...
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Line 7, column 74, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , his
... flaws and proper evidence by the author,his argument is weak and unpersuasive.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, hence, however, if, look, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, for example, i think
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 55.5748502994 67% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1698.0 2260.96107784 75% => OK
No of words: 336.0 441.139720559 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05357142857 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28139028586 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60847570383 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 204.123752495 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.491071428571 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 514.8 705.55239521 73% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 19.7664670659 35% => 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: 48.0 22.8473053892 210% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 271.061104641 57.8364921388 469% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 242.571428571 119.503703932 203% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 48.0 23.324526521 206% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 17.4285714286 5.70786347227 305% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 24.0 5.25449101796 457% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => 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: 0.266568473253 0.218282227539 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.127006276242 0.0743258471296 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101118196813 0.0701772020484 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.155995882366 0.128457276422 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.106179112621 0.0628817314937 169% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 26.4 14.3799401198 184% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 31.22 48.3550499002 65% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 20.8 12.197005988 171% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.9 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.32208582834 109% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 98.500998004 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 12.3882235529 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 21.2 11.1389221557 190% => OK
text_standard: 21.0 11.9071856287 176% => 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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