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.
In the given argument, the business manager of the television station concludes that in order to improve the decling viewers number and avoiding withdrawal of the local advertisers, 'they should restore the time devoted to weather and local news', citing it as a major reason for such plummet. However, the manager's conclusion is based on some illogical claim and it not coherent for the conclusion.
Firstly, the author assumes that the decling of the viewer is corelated with the decrease in the less broadcast time on weather and local news. It is probable that the viewers has shifted into internet for the news. Or, may be, viewers have shifted to some other tv channel, which might had a good daily content.
Second, cancelling of advertising contracts by local business, might be due to many other reasons. It is possible that these business had shifted their marketing policy to other social media platforms. There lacks a clear evidence for any such claims.
Third, it is claimed that the compliants received were concerned with coverage of weather and local news but it says nowhere that these complaints were about less coverage. May be, these complaints were about the quality of presentation. There is no any concrete data for accounting the number of viewers and the number of complaints received.
Therfore the bussiness manager needs to answer all above questions before reaching the conclusion. He/She shall be more specific in the reasons for the recent decline of the last
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Comments
e-rater score report
No. of Words: 247 350
Minimum 250 words wanted
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 9 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 247 350
No. of Characters: 1216 1500
No. of Different Words: 136 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.964 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.923 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.493 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 89 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 74 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 44 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 25 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.767 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.462 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.328 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.633 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.075 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 136, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...o improve the decling viewers number and avoiding withdrawal of the local adverti...
^^
Line 1, column 307, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'managers'' or 'manager's'?
Suggestion: managers'; manager's
...r reason for such plummet. However, the managers conclusion is based on some illogical c...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 248, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
...t the quality of presentation. There is no any concrete data for accounting the nu...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, so, third
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 55.5748502994 52% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 4.0 16.3942115768 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1264.0 2260.96107784 56% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 246.0 441.139720559 56% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13821138211 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96035189615 4.56307096286 87% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56904136999 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 140.0 204.123752495 69% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.569105691057 0.468620217663 121% => OK
syllable_count: 383.4 705.55239521 54% => syllable counts are too short.
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: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 60.0160727979 57.8364921388 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.2307692308 119.503703932 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9230769231 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.30769230769 5.70786347227 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.204207180851 0.218282227539 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.065442937058 0.0743258471296 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0794501433157 0.0701772020484 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104712691488 0.128457276422 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0735242159711 0.0628817314937 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.3799401198 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 98.500998004 64% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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