The scenario presented here states that in a particular television station all the late night programs of weather and local news majorly have been replaced by national news. Due to this, they have lost their advertising revenues and received complaints from people. The argument says, to eschew this they should devote more time to local and weather news. At first looks, this argument seems plausible but on careful consideration, we observe that it is rife with unanswered questions and assumptions. More evidence is required before we can warrant this argument.
The first question that arises is that the locals have complained about their concern with local and weather news. It is not specifically mentioned that what locals want. Do they really want to increase time coverage of local and weather news over national news? Or it is some different issue that they are facing with the news at that time. It might be the case they are actually happy with the time allotted to weather and local news but it is the content which is not interesting them. They might want a report which is covering topics which interest them or have better coverage of local news instead of what is being telecasted now.
It can be the case they want to switch the timing of the local and weather news and are actually satisfied with the time duration devoted to this news. Without organising proper surveys and analysis of those, we can't answer the question that what their actual complains and demands are. Therefore the present evidence provided that concerns were related to these 2 specific types of news does not indicate their actual demands and is too vague to consider.
On the same note, there is a hypothesis that due to this change only advertising revenue is suffering and local business cancelled their contact. It is obscure to extrapolate that due to this reason, they cancelled their contract. It might be the case that they are switching to other television station because of low fees there or that station getting better TRP than this station. It can be due to other different reasons also apart from increase time coverage of national news. So before concluding that this evidence is sufficient, we need to cancel out other probable reasons. For this, the station can directly contact the manager or the appropriate contact person at all these businesses to get to know the actual reason, instead of simply forming a conjecture about it.
Another question we need to ask is when did the station start receiving these complaints from customers. Was it after the change or before the change? This question also plays an important role in finding the actual cause behind the complaints. If it is after the change then the evidence provided might be helpful and people are actually dissatisfied with the time duration of local and weather news. This evidence along with other proofs such as surveys would further bolster the argument stated.
In the end, I would like to conclude that the evidence provided is not sufficient to state that increasing more time to national news is creating a problem. More evidence needed to be validated and vindicated before we can come to the conclusion that the argument provided by the author is warranted.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 27 15
No. of Words: 548 350
No. of Characters: 2655 1500
No. of Different Words: 237 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.838 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.845 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.447 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 188 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 146 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 100 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 46 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.296 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.726 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.407 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.293 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.514 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.135 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 213, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...roper surveys and analysis of those, we cant answer the question that what their act...
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Line 5, column 288, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...their actual complains and demands are. Therefore the present evidence provided that conc...
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Line 7, column 385, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...n getting better TRP than this station. It can be due to other different reasons a...
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Line 7, column 780, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...f simply forming a conjecture about it. Another question we need to ask is when ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, if, look, really, so, then, therefore, apart from, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 19.6327345309 178% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 11.1786427146 206% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 21.0 13.6137724551 154% => OK
Pronoun: 69.0 28.8173652695 239% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 55.5748502994 121% => OK
Nominalization: 25.0 16.3942115768 152% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2713.0 2260.96107784 120% => OK
No of words: 548.0 441.139720559 124% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95072992701 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83832613839 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48742039932 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 204.123752495 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.443430656934 0.468620217663 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 843.3 705.55239521 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 4.96107784431 323% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 19.7664670659 137% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.6153696914 57.8364921388 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.481481481 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2962962963 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.18518518519 5.70786347227 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 6.88822355289 189% => 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: 0.32952372539 0.218282227539 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107004684019 0.0743258471296 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105413346205 0.0701772020484 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.189657236895 0.128457276422 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0625327513929 0.0628817314937 99% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 14.3799401198 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.43 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.65 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 98.500998004 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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