The following appeared in a memorandum from the manager of WWAC radio station."WWAC must change from its current rock-music format because the number of listeners has been declining, even though the population in our listening area has been growing. The population growth has resulted mainly from people moving to our area after their retirement, and we must make listeners of these new residents. But they seem to have limited interest in music: several local stores selling recorded music have recently closed. Therefore, just changing to another kind of music is not going to increase our audience. Instead, we should adopt a news-and-talk format, a form of radio that is increasingly popular in our 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 manager states that wwac should adopt a news-and-talk show format to allure residents into listening the wwac radio station. To support this prompt he provides evidences thatThe number of people listening to the radio station has decreased inspite of an increasing population . In order to streangthen the assumption that the author has made he would have to evaluate various circumstances and as of the argument is serious flawed.
Initially, the manager states that the number of listeners have been decreasing, even though the population of the listening area is increasing. But is that number of significant? For example, if lets assume that currently 1000 people are active listeners of the radio station and 10 stopped following the show ,then the number is very less compared to the people are still following it. hence the manager should provide numerical statistics and should determine whether the decline in the numbers is constant .
he also has the audacity to directly assume that new residents are not interested in rock-music and he concludes this based on the fact that several locality music cd shops have been closed. there Might be other factors responsible that have led to this consequence, the manager simply doesn’t take account the other factors. For instance, due to growing use of internet and mobile phones and various online music platforms, all the people irrespective of the genre of music they are following, are able to access unlimited music free of cost. hence, the popularity of music cds have been declined that led to shop closure. also, the people moving into the area haven’t got enough time to figure out the programs of the radio station, maybe they have moved recently and are busy setting their house and haven’t settled yet.
even if we assume, the new residents aren’t interested in rock music then still there is no guarantee that talk show would entice them into listening to WWCC radio station. Before concluding anything , we must find out the point of interest of these new people and then plan things accordingly. surveys must be carried out among them ,the radio station should be promoted among them.
In conclusion, the argument as of now is flawed and the manager should provide more evidences like the numerical facts, statistics of the trp of radio station. also a survey among the new residents should be carried out to determine their point o interest as by doing so will help anticipate the popularity of the talk show
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 3 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 11 2
No. of Sentences: 11 15
No. of Words: 417 350
No. of Characters: 2028 1500
No. of Different Words: 198 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.519 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.863 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.509 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 146 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 104 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 68 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 50 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 37.909 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 22.232 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.636 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.4 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.689 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.211 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 58, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...ased inspite of an increasing population . In order to streangthen the assumption ...
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Line 9, column 197, Rule ID: LETS_LET[1]
Message: Did you mean 'Let's'?
Suggestion: Let's
... number of significant? For example, if lets assume that currently 1000 people are a...
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Line 12, column 6, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...tion and 10 stopped following the show ,then the number is very less compared to...
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Line 13, column 199, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...r the decline in the numbers is constant . he also has the audacity to directly...
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Line 15, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: He
...decline in the numbers is constant . he also has the audacity to directly assum...
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Suggestion: There
...cality music cd shops have been closed. there Might be other factors responsible that...
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Suggestion: Hence
...to access unlimited music free of cost. hence, the popularity of music cds have been ...
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Suggestion: Also
...been declined that led to shop closure. also, the people moving into the area haven’...
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Suggestion: Even
...their house and haven’t settled yet. even if we assume, the new residents aren’t ...
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Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...dio station. Before concluding anything , we must find out the point of interest ...
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Suggestion: Surveys
...eople and then plan things accordingly. surveys must be carried out among them ,the ra...
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Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
.... surveys must be carried out among them ,the radio station should be promoted a...
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Suggestion: Also
...atistics of the trp of radio station. also a survey among the new residents should...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: also,
...atistics of the trp of radio station. also a survey among the new residents should...
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Line 30, column 6, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...cipate the popularity of the talk show .
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, hence, if, may, so, still, then, for example, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2133.0 2260.96107784 94% => OK
No of words: 413.0 441.139720559 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16464891041 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50803742585 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60310397464 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 204.123752495 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.503631961259 0.468620217663 107% => OK
syllable_count: 649.8 705.55239521 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.3404806404 57.8364921388 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.470588235 119.503703932 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2941176471 23.324526521 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.70588235294 5.70786347227 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 15.0 5.15768463074 291% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 15.0 5.25449101796 285% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.289960085741 0.218282227539 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0947697099648 0.0743258471296 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.084208677855 0.0701772020484 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.090908938311 0.128457276422 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0735279674393 0.0628817314937 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 98.500998004 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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