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 memorandum the business manager of the television station is concern about the advertising revenues and took step to restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level. The main reason for curtail the time of local news and weather is the late-night news program mentioned by the business manager of a television station. But there are also some other points to be considered before jumped to the conclusion.
Moreover, the weather and local news viewer are more during morning and evening time because they are busy during a day in work and they don't have time to watch late night television. For example before going to office everyone is interested to know about city not in late-night. So it may be possible that the television station broadcast less news related to weather and local city due to which the viewers are not happy.
Furthermore, the national news and debate in political parties are also important to broadcast because it gives new perspective to public as well as the weather and the local news also important at their place. So the television station may broadcast both simultaneously. For example the weather and local news can show in a narrow line below the screen so that viewer get information with running program as today’s news channels displayed.
Additionally, in the given argument the author did not mentioned the statistical evidences for decrease in coverage of weather and local news. Only on the basis of viewers complain the product could not be prohibited or change. The business manager should collect proper evidences after research conclude what should be done by the station.
Finally, the argument did not have proper evidence in favor and on the basis of aforementioned reasons in spite of reducing the time of late-night news program the manager should find other strategies.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- not OK
argument 3 -- not OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? 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: 310 350
No. of Characters: 1525 1500
No. of Different Words: 153 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.196 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.919 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.595 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 112 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 90 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 51 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 33 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.846 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.637 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.615 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.386 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.634 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.08 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 138, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... are busy during a day in work and they dont have time to watch late night televisio...
^^^^
Line 7, column 56, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'did' requires the base form of the verb: 'mention'
Suggestion: mention
...n the given argument the author did not mentioned the statistical evidences for decrease ...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, furthermore, may, moreover, so, well, as to, for example, as well as, in spite of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 13.6137724551 22% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 28.8173652695 28% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1565.0 2260.96107784 69% => OK
No of words: 309.0 441.139720559 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06472491909 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69362609456 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 204.123752495 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.491909385113 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 497.7 705.55239521 71% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.614897758 57.8364921388 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.384615385 119.503703932 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7692307692 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.76923076923 5.70786347227 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.446195337131 0.218282227539 204% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.159940198046 0.0743258471296 215% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.128078489545 0.0701772020484 183% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.254783442741 0.128457276422 198% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.106920699481 0.0628817314937 170% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.74 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 98.500998004 59% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => 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
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