'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 time 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 just canceled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to the program and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level.”
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence would be needed in order to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
TV and new has become an integral part of our lives. We can access the news from anyplace regarding any country. On the argument, I believe this argument is weakly justified with fewer facts and more assumptions.
The manager of the TV station is making an assumption here that the coverage of weather and local news has affected its business. But he isn't taking a few factors into consideration like how many viewers have registered the complaints, e.g. If only 5-6 people are complaining out of a few, then making such business decisions may prove to be wrong in the long run.
Consequently, how many people actually watch TV during the night for national news isn't considered or mentioned. Maybe the city has more of the young youth who is interested in watching something else like in a category of entertainment and fun during night time, So just restoring the time devoted to weather and local news isn't going to do them justice.
Also, the manager isn't taking into consideration the fact that maybe the local businesses might have other issues related to money, the attitude of people working in the TV station that is why they might be canceling their contracts. Just because there were given less coverage seems too specific.
Also, less consideration is given to the fact that what type of national news is being shown on TV. Maybe the news isn't up-to-date or isn't shown effectively. Subsequently, The manager is basing all its arguments on the last year's time period. Also what amount of revenue the advertising company was bringing to the station is also not provided, maybe the amount is not enough to compromise on the national news.
Therefore, I believe the argument is weakly justified and needs more evidence to strengthen the viewpoint.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 305 350
No. of Characters: 1428 1500
No. of Different Words: 169 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.179 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.682 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.64 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 92 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 72 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 52 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 31 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.786 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.055 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.571 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.336 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.648 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.094 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 138, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
... news has affected its business. But he isnt taking a few factors into consideration...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...h TV during the night for national news isnt considered or mentioned. Maybe the city...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
... time devoted to weather and local news isnt going to do them justice. Also, ...
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Line 7, column 357, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...cal news isnt going to do them justice. Also, the manager isnt taking into consi...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
... them justice. Also, the manager isnt taking into consideration the fact that...
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Line 13, column 116, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...ws is being shown on TV. Maybe the news isnt up-to-date or isnt shown effectively. S...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...n TV. Maybe the news isnt up-to-date or isnt shown effectively. Subsequently, The ma...
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Line 13, column 245, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...guments on the last years time period. Also what amount of revenue the advertising ...
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Line 13, column 414, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ugh to compromise on the national news. Therefore, I believe the argument is wea...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, consequently, e.g., if, may, regarding, so, then, therefore
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.9520958084 31% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 55.5748502994 65% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1476.0 2260.96107784 65% => OK
No of words: 299.0 441.139720559 68% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9364548495 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69200230928 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.56856187291 0.468620217663 121% => OK
syllable_count: 457.2 705.55239521 65% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.9019447856 57.8364921388 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.428571429 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3571428571 23.324526521 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.71428571429 5.70786347227 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.20758483034 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.276883470134 0.218282227539 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.090113931123 0.0743258471296 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0682406903336 0.0701772020484 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120463213255 0.128457276422 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0875189893189 0.0628817314937 139% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 98.500998004 62% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => 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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