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 c

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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 compl aintsreceived from viewers w ere 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 theprogram 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 above memorandum from the business manager

emphasizes on the idea that because of reduced time

period of local and weather news there is a decline

revenues. The memorandum also states that because

of reduced time period many local businesses have

canceled the advertising contract.The above

argument is rife with holes and rests on some

unsubstantiated assumptions and is unpersuasive as

it stands.

The first two sentences of the memorandum suggests

that the late-night news program devoted more time

to national news rather than local and whether news

because of which the news channel received

compliants from the users. The above statement is

vague because the word most doesn't clarfiy the

number of users who registered a complain regarding

station's coverage of local and weather news. Also

the the memorandum doesn't specifically mention the

timestamp of the complaints registered.There is a

possibility of a complain being registered at

afternoon or evening which is an invalid complain

when compared with the statement made.

The third sentence of the argument suggests that

the during the same time period many local

businesses have canceled the contracts with the

station. The above statement is absurd because it

nowhere provides an evidence that it was because of

the reduced time that local's canceled their

advertising contracts. There is a possibility that

the local businesses might be facing a situation of

recession because of which they aren't having

enough budget to continue advertising. There is

also a possibility of two business getting merged

into a single one because of which they are forced

to cancel their advertising contracts.

The last sentence of the argument is a conclusion

made without considering all the facts and figures.

The station seems to restore the time devoted to

weather and local news which is spurious as it

doesn't take into account reports and documents.

Therefore the above memorandum from the business

manager shouldn't be taken into account as it does

not have documents or proofs attached with the

memorandum to bolster the argument. The above

argument is false as it does not consider the

statistics and just rests on some unsubstantiated

assumptions.Therefore the station should continue

with the increased time period to national news and

reduced time period to local and weather news for

time being.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, regarding, so, therefore, third

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 12.9520958084 15% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2175.0 2260.96107784 96% => OK
No of words: 376.0 441.139720559 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.78457446809 5.12650576532 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40348946061 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9204586088 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.43085106383 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 638.1 705.55239521 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.76447105788 160% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK

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: 28.0 22.8473053892 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 51.3946328329 57.8364921388 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 167.307692308 119.503703932 140% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.9230769231 23.324526521 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.69230769231 5.70786347227 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 48.0 5.15768463074 931% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 78.0 5.25449101796 1484% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.395540206118 0.218282227539 181% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.159325438015 0.0743258471296 214% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.137406662391 0.0701772020484 196% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.086041034462 0.128457276422 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.121543409965 0.0628817314937 193% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.3 14.3799401198 141% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.6 48.3550499002 72% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.197005988 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.84 12.5979740519 134% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 19.5 12.3882235529 157% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.1389221557 119% => OK
text_standard: 20.0 11.9071856287 168% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.

Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 57 15
No. of Words: 384 350
No. of Characters: 1965 1500
No. of Different Words: 155 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.427 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.117 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.752 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 145 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 124 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 82 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 50 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 6.737 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 2.503 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.14 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.205 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.909 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.021 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 50 5