The following is a memorandum from the business manager of WLSS television station.
"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 argument presented states that there is a need to restore back to its former level the time devoted to weather and local news. The reasons presented for this hypothesis are complaints received from viewers and a fall in the advertising revenues.
The author states that most of the complaints received were with regards to the stations coverage of local and weather news. However, it is not stated in detail what these complaints were about. The argument assumes that these complaints were related to a lack of coverage of local and weather news even though there is no evidence provided in that regard.
Consequently, clear evidence with regards to what the complaints were is required in order to evaluate the argument. If the evidence suggests that the complaints were indeed about the lack of local and weathers news coverage, then it would strengthen the argument provided in the text.
Secondly, the argument states that local businesses cancelled their contracts. However, there is no explicit evidence provided as to why the contracts were cancelled. The argument assumes the reason for cancellation of contracts to be a lack of local and weather news coverage. Therefore, this lack of evidence weakens the argument that to avoid any further advertising revenues, the local and weather news coverage levels must be restored to their former levels.
Overall, the hypothesis provided in the last line of the passage is weak. This is because the reasons provided in the argument are not backed up by conclusive evidence which can justify the stance taken in the whole argument.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
flaws:
No. of Words: 260 350
minimum 3 arguments wanted.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 260 350
No. of Characters: 1302 1500
No. of Different Words: 109 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.016 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.008 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.562 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 99 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 83 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 60 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 23 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.325 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.462 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.43 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.619 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.127 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...nd a fall in the advertising revenues. The author states that most of the complain...
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Line 2, column 81, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'stations'' or 'station's'?
Suggestion: stations'; station's
...aints received were with regards to the stations coverage of local and weather news. How...
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Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...s no evidence provided in that regard. Consequently, clear evidence with regard...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.9520958084 31% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 55.5748502994 63% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1337.0 2260.96107784 59% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 260.0 441.139720559 59% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.14230769231 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01553427287 4.56307096286 88% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64063321705 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 116.0 204.123752495 57% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.446153846154 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 421.2 705.55239521 60% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
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: 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: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.2282377035 57.8364921388 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.846153846 119.503703932 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 23.324526521 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.46153846154 5.70786347227 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.20758483034 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => OK
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: 0.151919591878 0.218282227539 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0681300016435 0.0743258471296 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0678300950665 0.0701772020484 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.095418231887 0.128457276422 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0553851101698 0.0628817314937 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.3799401198 89% => 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: 12.53 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 98.500998004 56% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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