Argumentative - "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 assumes that restoring the time devoted to weather and localc news to its former level attract more viewers . The idea is based on the complaints received by its viewers making the channel revise its decision to increase the time to show the national news . However the author has overlooked a few vital points for its logical convincing .
Firstly the idea that restoring the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level is illogical . The prompt doesnt state for what issue are the complaints registered. There is a possibilty that the local viewers are disappointed with the channels weather forecast prediction . The weather forecasted by the news channel has frequently been incorrect making the citizen suffer , for example the channel had predicted a sunny day but it turned out to be a rainy one making its viewers disappointed.
Secondly, the channel asssumes that the local businesses would renew their contracts if the channels changes its new policies .There is no mention in the above prompt taht the businesses have received a substanial amount of profits from the advertisements . It fails to take into consideration that the businesses are not generating the revenue expected from their advertising and spending big amounts is just proving to be futile . Thus to cut down their costs and avoid losses, busisnesses are canceling their contracts.
Apart from this there is no gurantee that the restoring the time to devoted to weather and local news channel would increase its viewership . The author doesnt factor in that the loss in viewership might be the result of a new reporter delivering the news or the new system that showed the news might not be as apealing to the viewer as the previous anchor who completely amazed the viewers.
Thus due to these overstated flaws the argument seems to be ill-founded . However the argument would have been strengthened if the author would have solved the above stated queries . Thus the prediction that restoring the time given to weather and local news to its former level falls flat .
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 342 350
No. of Characters: 1695 1500
No. of Different Words: 161 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.3 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.956 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.583 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 123 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 92 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 58 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 38 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.8 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.394 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.371 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.603 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.058 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...to its former level attract more viewers . The idea is based on the complaints rec...
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Line 1, column 267, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
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...rease the time to show the national news . However the author has overlooked a few...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...se the time to show the national news . However the author has overlooked a few vital p...
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... vital points for its logical convincing . Firstly the idea that restoring the...
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...al news to its former level is illogical . The prompt doesnt state for what issue ...
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... former level is illogical . The prompt doesnt state for what issue are the complaints...
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Line 3, column 288, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
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...the channels weather forecast prediction . The weather forecasted by the news chan...
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...been incorrect making the citizen suffer , for example the channel had predicted a...
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...if the channels changes its new policies .There is no mention in the above prompt ...
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... the channels changes its new policies .There is no mention in the above prompt taht ...
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...mount of profits from the advertisements . It fails to take into consideration tha...
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...big amounts is just proving to be futile . Thus to cut down their costs and avoid ...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
... amounts is just proving to be futile . Thus to cut down their costs and avoid losse...
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...ws channel would increase its viewership . The author doesnt factor in that the lo...
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...ld increase its viewership . The author doesnt factor in that the loss in viewership m...
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Suggestion: Thus,
... who completely amazed the viewers. Thus due to these overstated flaws the argum...
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...aws the argument seems to be ill-founded . However the argument would have been st...
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Suggestion: However,
... the argument seems to be ill-founded . However the argument would have been strengthen...
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...ld have been strengthened if the author would have solved the above stated queries . Thus the pre...
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...uld have solved the above stated queries . Thus the prediction that restoring the ...
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Suggestion: Thus,
... have solved the above stated queries . Thus the prediction that restoring the time ...
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...ocal news to its former level falls flat .
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, then, thus, apart from, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 55.5748502994 61% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1730.0 2260.96107784 77% => OK
No of words: 342.0 441.139720559 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05847953216 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30037696126 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66656492193 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 204.123752495 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.479532163743 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 528.3 705.55239521 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.3586462859 57.8364921388 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.333333333 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.46666666667 5.70786347227 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 22.0 5.25449101796 419% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => 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: 0.262699435432 0.218282227539 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104381426581 0.0743258471296 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0987624513156 0.0701772020484 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162513956373 0.128457276422 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0763607853354 0.0628817314937 121% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.3799401198 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 98.500998004 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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