The following appeared in a memorandum from the manager of WWAC radio station.
"To reverse a decline in listener numbers, our owners have decided that WWAC must change from its current rock-music format. The decline has occurred despite
population growth in our listening area, but that growth has resulted mainly from people moving here after their retirement.
We must make listeners of these new residents. We could switch to a music format tailored to their tastes, but a continuing decline in local sales of
recorded music suggests limited interest in music. Instead we should change to a news and talk format, a form of radio that is increasingly popular in our area."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The author claims here that to reverse a decline in listener numbers of their radio station, they should change the content of their radio channel from current rock-music format to news and talk format. Stated in this way the author fails to consider several factors on the basis of which the argument could be evaluated. To justify the claim that changing the format of the channel from current rock-music to news and talk format the author provides very vague and incomplete reasoning points.
And after careful scrutiny of the evidences we can observe that they provide little or no solid support to the author's claims. Hence the argument here can be considered weak and uncomplete to arrive at any conclusive decision.
Fisrtly, the argument readily states that the populataion growth of the region mainly consists of people moving after retirement, but while making this claim the author does not provide us with any evidence. Also the author failed to consider here that even though if we take in account that this claim is trues but he did not provide any details regarding the taste or liking of these retirement people who have migrated here. Also the author failed to consider the previous population of the region who have remained constant but then why the decline it listener? It should have remained constant then. So he should also consider other facts like degradation in quality of their rock-music content now compared to previous time before making assumption that taste of the population had changed.
Secondly, the author assumed that the decline in sales of record is correlated with decline in listner in their radio station without any concrete evidence between this correlation. The decline in local sales of record may be due to easy accesibily of music to beople by other meanse like CDs, online streaming platforms like spotify, TVs, etc. So while making this claim and assumption author should provide us with more evidence related to this correlation and as well as deeper analysis on decline in local sales of record.
Lastly, the claim made by author regarding the increasing popularity of news and talk format in the area is not strong as author fails to provide any survey or statistical numbers related to this claim. We should also consider the fact that maybe in past there was no radio stations which were based on news and talk format and due to the newness of the content there may be a abnormal spike which may decrease in coming days and also there may be already too many radio stations who have shows related to news and talk content, so switching into this already overcrowded format/content may bring negative results to listner numbers.
In conclusion, author have to provide us with more evidence raised in above paragraphs to bolster his argumant and arrive at a conclusive decision by providing us with more survey numbers or statsistics based on listener. Finally, in the current state it would not be possible to agree with the authors claim.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.0 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 505 350
No. of Characters: 2459 1500
No. of Different Words: 219 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.74 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.869 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.375 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 193 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 133 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 31.562 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 16.632 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.36 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.658 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.21 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 128, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...no solid support to the authors claims. Hence the argument here can be considered wea...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 209, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
... does not provide us with any evidence. Also the author failed to consider here that...
^^^^
Line 7, column 429, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...tirement people who have migrated here. Also the author failed to consider the previ...
^^^^
Line 15, column 376, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...the newness of the content there may be a abnormal spike which may decrease in co...
^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, hence, if, lastly, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, well, while, in conclusion, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 11.1786427146 179% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 28.8173652695 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 83.0 55.5748502994 149% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2516.0 2260.96107784 111% => OK
No of words: 504.0 441.139720559 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99206349206 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73813722054 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45907226554 2.78398813304 88% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 204.123752495 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.448412698413 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 790.2 705.55239521 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 80.967591449 57.8364921388 140% => OK
Chars per sentence: 148.0 119.503703932 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.6470588235 23.324526521 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.11764705882 5.70786347227 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.153179713168 0.218282227539 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0603244549959 0.0743258471296 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0754556160304 0.0701772020484 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0839319578892 0.128457276422 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0787442364256 0.0628817314937 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.9 14.3799401198 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 48.3550499002 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 98.500998004 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => 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
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