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.
In the memorandum from the business manager of a television station, it has been stated that the authority thinks to take the initiatives to restore the time devoted to waether and local news to its former level based on the compiants about the station's coverage of local and weather news, after the brocasting time fixed for this has been reduced. However, before the recommendation has been executed, several questions must be answered.
First of all, Is the news broadcast now in the coverage of local weather news maintaining the quality as before? It is possible that the news now broadcast might not be the same as the ones brodcast before. After seeing the low quality news brodcast there, people might begin to cease watiching it. If the quality is good, then why do people cease to watch it. Instead they would claim to broadcast more. Instead they stopped to watch it anymore. If it is true, then the conclusions drawn in the argument have weakened significantly.
Finally, Are the tv programmes maintaining good-quality programmes? It is posssible that they might not be maintaining the programmes in good terms as before. It is possible that the tv programmes that have been broadcast now might not entertain the the people as it did before. Therefore, people might not be interested now in watching the tv programmmes, cease watching them, and start compaining. If it is ture, the argument does not hold water anymore.
In the conclusion, the argument, as it stand now, is flawed due to its over reliance on several unwarranted assumptions. If the questions asked above are answered, and the authority offers more evidence drawn based on scientific research method, it will be possible to avaluate the viability of the arugument to restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level.
Comments
e-rater score report
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: 16 15
No. of Words: 305 350
No. of Characters: 1476 1500
No. of Different Words: 137 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.179 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.839 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.683 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 99 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 82 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 59 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 38 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.062 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.525 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.336 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.537 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.134 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 246, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'stations'' or 'station's'?
Suggestion: stations'; station's
... level based on the compiants about the stations coverage of local and weather news, aft...
^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 362, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Instead,
..., then why do people cease to watch it. Instead they would claim to broadcast more. Ins...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 406, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Instead,
...ead they would claim to broadcast more. Instead they stopped to watch it anymore. If it...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 247, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
... been broadcast now might not entertain the the people as it did before. Therefore, peo...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 247, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
... been broadcast now might not entertain the the people as it did before. Therefore, peo...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, then, therefore, first of all, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1521.0 2260.96107784 67% => OK
No of words: 305.0 441.139720559 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9868852459 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76581038179 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 204.123752495 70% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.468852459016 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 470.7 705.55239521 67% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 2.70958083832 295% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 78.4321960358 57.8364921388 136% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.0625 119.503703932 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0625 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.375 5.70786347227 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.212571899541 0.218282227539 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0567203904547 0.0743258471296 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102636301851 0.0701772020484 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145129464609 0.128457276422 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.114839192825 0.0628817314937 183% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 14.3799401198 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.3550499002 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 98.500998004 65% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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