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 is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The author of the memorandunm avers that, the telivision station have reduced the time of broadcasting weather and local news and increased time of national. Due to which it recevied several complaints regarding the coverage of local news and weather and thus they local advetisers have camcelled their advetise. Therefor in order to attract more viewers to the preogram they need to restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level. This author of the argument have stated substential statements to prove his point and the conclusion drawn holds water.
According to the argument, the time devoted to the local news and weather was reduced and insted divote time to national news, which does not seem adequate. If the locals would would not be able to get the knowledge about what are the happenings in their locality, then the main motive of watching news is not fulfiled. Thus the viewers might change the channel to the one which broadcasts local news, reducing the views of tevevision channel which does not do so.
Aditionally, many locals start their day by knowling the weather of the day and accordingly schedule their activities. If they do not get the desired information about the weather they might not be able to smoothly run through their day. If a person have to do work in this farm and which should not involve rain in it, then he might look at the weather predictions for rain to choose the right time to do the work. Therefore weather forecast plays an important role and the telivison stations should restore its timeing.
Due to lack of time provoded to broadcast local news and weather, it is obvious that the views will reduce and thus the local adveisers will not reach the targted audience and would not help to cope up with the expenses of the advertiser Thus, for sure the advertisement will bw cancelled.
To conclude, the televison station should restore its timeing for the locale news and weather, as to attract more view
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 23 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 340 350
No. of Characters: 1609 1500
No. of Different Words: 160 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.294 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.732 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.428 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 103 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 86 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 53 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 30 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.154 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.222 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.692 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.389 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.647 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.099 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 172, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: would
...h does not seem adequate. If the locals would would not be able to get the knowledge about ...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 321, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...otive of watching news is not fulfiled. Thus the viewers might change the channel to...
^^^^
Line 5, column 120, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... accordingly schedule their activities. If they do not get the desired information...
^^
Line 5, column 417, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...o choose the right time to do the work. Therefore weather forecast plays an important rol...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, if, look, regarding, so, then, therefore, thus, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 19.6327345309 31% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1648.0 2260.96107784 73% => OK
No of words: 340.0 441.139720559 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.84705882353 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29407602571 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4831194802 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 204.123752495 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.488235294118 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 496.8 705.55239521 70% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.1039561891 57.8364921388 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.769230769 119.503703932 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1538461538 23.324526521 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.07692307692 5.70786347227 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => 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: 0.306752382378 0.218282227539 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.131180845262 0.0743258471296 176% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.108156182832 0.0701772020484 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.196970774134 0.128457276422 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.079434508796 0.0628817314937 126% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.3799401198 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.15 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.