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 s

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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 author of the given passage provides arguments that leads to a conclusion. But the conclusion is based on vague language used for the arguments. The author says that their late-night news program has devoted increased time to national news instead of weather and local news although the argument does not provide any data about the year before the last and whether they had a huge viewer-base during that time, rendering the conclusion that if they restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level, it will attract more viewers to the program, invalid. The author also bases his facts on certain assumptions that are sufficient to challenge authors conclusions.

Firstly, the author says that during the past year most of the complaints they received from viewers were concerned with their station's coverage of weather and local news. It cannot be judged from the author's language about how many complaints were registered. It may happen that there were only 5 complaints out of which 3 were regarding the weather and local news. Also it is vague not understood from the author's language that the complaints were for the late-nighht shows or the ones which were shown during the day time. Thus the conclusion that restoring the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level for the late night shows will attract more viewers is not valid.

Furthermore, the author writes that the local businesses that used to advertise on their late-night news program have cancelled their advertising contracts due to increased time to national news is baseless. The author does not mention whether they have made contract with them for the morning shows or that these businesses do not require advertising anymore. Thus increasing time for local and weather news does not guarantee that they won't lose further contracts.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 380, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...e regarding the weather and local news. Also it is vague not understood from the aut...
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Line 3, column 545, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...s which were shown during the day time. Thus the conclusion that restoring the time ...
^^^^

Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'furthermore', 'if', 'may', 'regarding', 'so', 'thus']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.229411764706 0.25644967241 89% => OK
Verbs: 0.179411764706 0.15541462614 115% => OK
Adjectives: 0.108823529412 0.0836205057962 130% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0411764705882 0.0520304965353 79% => OK
Pronouns: 0.05 0.0272364105082 184% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.114705882353 0.125424944231 91% => OK
Participles: 0.0470588235294 0.0416121511921 113% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.63129332422 2.79052419416 94% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0323529411765 0.026700313972 121% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.1 0.113004496875 88% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0117647058824 0.0255425247493 46% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0176470588235 0.0127820249294 138% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1873.0 2731.13054187 69% => OK
No of words: 306.0 446.07635468 69% => More words wanted.
Chars per words: 6.12091503268 6.12365571057 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.57801047555 91% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.33660130719 0.378187486979 89% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.277777777778 0.287650121315 97% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.186274509804 0.208842608468 89% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.137254901961 0.135150697306 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63129332422 2.79052419416 94% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 207.018472906 70% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.47385620915 0.469332199767 101% => OK
Word variations: 46.6666901839 52.1807786196 89% => OK
How many sentences: 12.0 20.039408867 60% => OK
Sentence length: 25.5 23.2022227129 110% => OK
Sentence length SD: 92.2373146954 57.7814097925 160% => OK
Chars per sentence: 156.083333333 141.986410481 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5 23.2022227129 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.833333333333 0.724660767414 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 5.14285714286 58% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 3.58251231527 56% => OK
Readability: 53.2777777778 51.9672348444 103% => OK
Elegance: 1.44565217391 1.8405768891 79% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.534509540305 0.441005458295 121% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.192985825797 0.135418324435 143% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0798623302346 0.0829849096947 96% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.611639286133 0.58762219726 104% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.127761007011 0.147661913831 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.256115969098 0.193483328276 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.144999102137 0.0970749176394 149% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.519607995809 0.42659136922 122% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0997946252379 0.0774707102158 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.432757596521 0.312017818177 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0871126931079 0.0698173142475 125% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.33743842365 48% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.87684729064 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.82512315271 21% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 4.0 6.46551724138 62% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 5.36822660099 93% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.82389162562 35% => OK
Total topic words: 10.0 14.657635468 68% => OK

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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