Two years ago, radio station WCQP in Rockville decided to increase the number of call-in advice programs that it broadcast; since that time, its share of the radio audience in the Rockville listening area has increased significantly. Given WCQP's recent success with call-in advice programming, and citing a nationwide survey indicating that many radio listeners are quite interested in such programs, the station manager of KICK in Medway recommends that KICK include more call-in advice programs in an attempt to gain a larger audience share in its listening area.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The given argument is WCQP radio station in Rockville has increased number of audience due to increased call-in advice programs. The radio station KICK is advised to do the same to gain larger audience in Medway. To evaluate this argument we need significant amount of information, which can strengthen or weaken the argument.
Firstly, the argument is talking about two different radio stations WCQP and KICK which are in two cities Rockville and Medway. We need to compare audience in both cities. There are many possibilities, for example, there is a possibility that Rockville is urban area where people like to call and like to participate in different talk shows on radio and Medway is rural area where people don't have much interest in talk shows, and they might like more entertainment programs, such as music, news. We need this information to evaluate the argument, if there is significant difference between audience of both cities, then adding more call-in advice programs might not help KICK radio station listeners.
Next question on this argument is what is the status of WCQP audience right now. The argument is considering two years ago changes and success of WCQP radio station. There is no information provided in the argument about current situation. It could happen also that WCQP have updated their other programs also along with call-in advice program, which increased their audience. Another possible situation is WCQP has launched call-in advice programs for short term and after that replaced with other more interesting programs. As there is no information in the given argument what is current situation of WCQP, with which KICK radio station can be compared, it can question the validity of argument.
Another question which can question argument is what are the specific questions included in survey which claim WCQP station's success. Are there questions specific to call-in advice programs or it was just general about all the programs. Does it ask information from people that they are connected to WCQP only due to call-in advice program or there is any other reason. The survey might include just one question which ration station do you like? and people just chose they like WCQP. Thus, before reaching any conclusion it is necessary to get more information about survey.
Thus, all the above mentioned questions can question conclusion of the argument. The answers may support or may not support the argument. Therefore, before reaching any conclusion, first gather all the information required to answer above questions, which will help to reach on right decision.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...o and Medway is rural area where people dont have much interest in talk shows, and t...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: And
...stion which ration station do you like? and people just chose they like WCQP. Thus,...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, may, so, then, therefore, thus, for example, such as, talking about
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 55.5748502994 108% => OK
Nominalization: 43.0 16.3942115768 262% => Less nominalization wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2193.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 421.0 441.139720559 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20902612827 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52971130743 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59255578775 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 204.123752495 90% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.437054631829 0.468620217663 93% => OK
syllable_count: 663.3 705.55239521 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.0803562314 57.8364921388 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.6818181818 119.503703932 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1363636364 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.22727272727 5.70786347227 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.28756890148 0.218282227539 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100589173698 0.0743258471296 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.115881515576 0.0701772020484 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17603681954 0.128457276422 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.110141763322 0.0628817314937 175% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.3799401198 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.47 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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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