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 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 canceled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to our news programs and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should expand our coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The memorandum from the business manager of a television station suggests that Last year, late-night news program has concentrated more on national news and less time on weather or local news. During this time period many view's complained to the station stating that there is less coverage over local news. And the local businesses that used to advertise contracts with the television station has cancelled their contacts. Therefore in order to attract more viewer's to the program and to avoid loosing any further contracts their business manager suggested to restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level.
Firstly, Does the late-night news channel concentrate completely on national news. We do not know if the channel where they are broadcasting is a national channel or a local channel. Broadcasting local news on a national channel is of not much use as all the people around the country might not be interested in some petty local new's. Lets take an example if the local is new's is very huge like some major frequent accident's in a particular area can be broadcasted or a bunch of thieves try to attack people for their gain or major political decision or fights can be published but if the channel starts publishing road damage and small political issues then it might not be of much use to other people of different places.
Secondly, The author said local businesses that used to advertise the during the late-night news program has canceled their contract. There might be particular reason why the local businesses has canceled their contracts. There might be chance that many people might not be watching television late night or advertisements in the late nights might not be much entertain to the viewer's. Without any particular reason of the cancellation the author cannot link two different issue's with each other.
Finally, We know that the new's which is broadcast-ed is a late night show. There might be not much viewer's who watch the new's completely as they have to wake up early and get back to their works. So we know that students and morning workers tend to avoid the show unless it's only broadcasted on weekend's. So there might be few viewer's who might watch the show as we do not know the proper count because it not mentioned one cannot determine the number of complaints. And we also dont know if the number of complaints is more on local news or weather.
So we can conclude from the above discussion that as there is less information we cannot directly restore the time devoted to weather and local new's. If the author provides the information of number of complaints on each and the type of channel one can decide to restore the time duration for local and weather news.
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Essay evaluation report
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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: 16 15
No. of Words: 469 350
No. of Characters: 2243 1500
No. of Different Words: 195 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.654 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.783 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.56 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 147 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 115 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 51 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 29.312 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 21.076 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.562 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.373 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.608 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.218 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 425, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...n station has cancelled their contacts. Therefore in order to attract more viewers to the...
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Line 1, column 549, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'suggested restoring'.
Suggestion: suggested restoring
...urther contracts their business manager suggested to restore the time devoted to weather and local n...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 336, Rule ID: LETS_LET[1]
Message: Did you mean 'Let's'?
Suggestion: Let's
...be interested in some petty local news. Lets take an example if the local is news is...
^^^^
Line 3, column 523, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...eves try to attack people for their gain or major political decision or fights ca...
^^
Line 3, column 697, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...hen it might not be of much use to other people of different places. Secondly,...
^^
Line 5, column 26, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ent places. Secondly, The author said local businesses that used to advertise ...
^^
Line 7, column 95, Rule ID: MUCH_COUNTABLE[1]
Message: Use 'many' with countable nouns.
Suggestion: many
...s a late night show. There might be not much viewers who watch the news completely a...
^^^^
Line 7, column 480, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...e the number of complaints. And we also dont know if the number of complaints is mo...
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Line 7, column 520, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...dont know if the number of complaints is more on local news or weather. So we ...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, then, therefore
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 55.5748502994 92% => 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: 2270.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 469.0 441.139720559 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84008528785 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65364457471 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57781193286 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 204.123752495 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.411513859275 0.468620217663 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 699.3 705.55239521 99% => 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: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.0631410488 57.8364921388 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.473684211 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6842105263 23.324526521 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.05263157895 5.70786347227 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.385793514338 0.218282227539 177% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.154829176284 0.0743258471296 208% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.145532885644 0.0701772020484 207% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.242094869579 0.128457276422 188% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.163584493964 0.0628817314937 260% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.3799401198 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.3550499002 115% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.09 12.5979740519 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.39 8.32208582834 89% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 98.500998004 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => 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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