"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."
This argument claims that the television station should restart broadcasting weather and local news during their late-night news program in order to attract more viewers and avoid loss of revenue from advertising campaigns. It also states that the television station has received more complaints from viewers about coverage of weather and local news. However, the conclusion of this argument is based on assumptions for which there is no clear evidence and thus, the argument is flawed and unconvincing.
Firstly, the primary assumption of writer is that devoting less time to local news program is incurring revenue loss as many advertisers have canceled their contracts with the television station. However, their is no evidence that proves the fact that advertisers are cancelling contracts due to less broadcasting of local news program. May be this could have affected some advertisers but there could some other factors contributing to this situation. For example, the advertisers might not be happy with the policies of television station or the contract might seem to be less profitable to them. Additionally, if there is no growing demand of products and services of which advertisers are making advertisements, it would not effective and also a waste for companies to spend money on advertising campaigns. They might have found that there are less viewers during late night shows that actually pay attention to this advertisements.
Secondly, the argument assumes that the number of viewers of late-night news is decreasing since the television station has started national news program. The writer supports this claim by stating that viewers complaints about local news and weather are increasing. But it does not sufficiently explains the underlying cause for the reduction in viewer's number and their complaints.
Thus, argument in its present form seems unconvincing due to lack of strong evidence to support the claim. It is necessary to have full knowledge of all the contributing factors in order to assess the argument.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 206, Rule ID: THEIR_IS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'there'?
Suggestion: there
...s with the television station. However, their is no evidence that proves the fact tha...
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Line 3, column 342, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[8]
Message: The proper name in singular (May) must be used with a third-person verb: 'is'.
Suggestion: is
...broadcasting of local news program. May be this could have affected some advertise...
^^
Line 3, column 849, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun viewers is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...s. They might have found that there are less viewers during late night shows that ac...
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Line 3, column 917, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...ht shows that actually pay attention to this advertisements. Secondly, the argum...
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Line 5, column 296, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'explain'
Suggestion: explain
...ncreasing. But it does not sufficiently explains the underlying cause for the reduction ...
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Line 7, column 35, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...s. Thus, argument in its present form seems unconvincing due to lack of strong...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, thus, for example
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 : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1727.0 2260.96107784 76% => OK
No of words: 320.0 441.139720559 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.396875 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22948505376 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89809844715 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 204.123752495 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.484375 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 513.9 705.55239521 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.8204674099 57.8364921388 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.357142857 119.503703932 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8571428571 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.71428571429 5.70786347227 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => 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: 0.249707375805 0.218282227539 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0978470367573 0.0743258471296 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.100163109898 0.0701772020484 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15513309186 0.128457276422 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0995720292428 0.0628817314937 158% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.3799401198 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.34 12.5979740519 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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 -- 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.