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 following memorandum from the business manager is quite relevant, but it is lacking evidences regarding that restoring time devoted to weather and local news to its previous level is going to help attract more viewers. Hence, making the conclusion flawed.
The manager of television station is worried that news program has devoted more time to national news over local and weather news, and this is the reason why their viewers rating and numbers are dipping. Although, there is no evidence that viewers don't like to watch national news. The locals just want to see some of the local news as they belong to a certain place, and therefore want to what is going on in their city, but it does not mean that they want to cut themselves from their country or the world. Decreasing time for national news and restoring old time for local news is not going to help certainly in terms of gaining more viewers for the channel.
Furthermore, weather coverage are supposed to be a part of news, either it is a national news or an international news. Albeit, we have no evidence which can assert that viewers are so keen to watch weather news which is totally not in the favor of increasing time for weather news in order to get more viewers. Local and weather news combine is making a good combination for attracting viewers, provided news is fresh and latest whenever the viewer hit the remote button, in case channel want to get better in their TRPs.
If we talk about late-night news program, and the local business that used to advertise during that certain time period in the night, might get back to business with the television company, but the argument has no evidence or no such survey that mentions that how many people actually watch television during night. So it doesn't matter much that how much time the company increase for the local news, it won't affect the number of viewers especially during night. Moreover, if people want to see some kind of advertisement, they can see it during day time also. There is no need to be awake during night in order watch those advertisements while waiting for the repeat telecast of some show.
Overall though, the television station manager is trying to justify his position very effectively, but at the same time he forgot to mention some necessary evidences which can be effective while justifying his argument about attracting more viewers.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 205, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Although” 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.
...viewers rating and numbers are dipping. Although, there is no evidence that viewers dont...
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Line 3, column 249, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...ough, there is no evidence that viewers dont like to watch national news. The locals...
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Line 3, column 311, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...ional news. The locals just want to see some of the local news as they belong to a certain ...
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Line 5, column 98, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'international news'.
Suggestion: international news
...f news, either it is a national news or an international news. Albeit, we have no evidence which can ...
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Line 7, column 323, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ly watch television during night. So it doesnt matter much that how much time the comp...
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Line 7, column 556, Rule ID: ALSO_SENT_END[1]
Message: 'Also' is not used at the end of the sentence. Use 'as well' instead.
Suggestion: as well
...sement, they can see it during day time also. There is no need to be awake during ni...
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'also', 'but', 'furthermore', 'hence', 'if', 'moreover', 'regarding', 'so', 'therefore', 'while', 'kind of']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.242152466368 0.25644967241 94% => OK
Verbs: 0.183856502242 0.15541462614 118% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0919282511211 0.0836205057962 110% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0403587443946 0.0520304965353 78% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0448430493274 0.0272364105082 165% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.116591928251 0.125424944231 93% => OK
Participles: 0.0538116591928 0.0416121511921 129% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.45714161643 2.79052419416 88% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0448430493274 0.026700313972 168% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0874439461883 0.113004496875 77% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00896860986547 0.0255425247493 35% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0224215246637 0.0127820249294 175% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2397.0 2731.13054187 88% => OK
No of words: 413.0 446.07635468 93% => OK
Chars per words: 5.80387409201 6.12365571057 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50803742585 4.57801047555 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.331719128329 0.378187486979 88% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.249394673123 0.287650121315 87% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.154963680387 0.208842608468 74% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0823244552058 0.135150697306 61% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45714161643 2.79052419416 88% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 207.018472906 93% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.467312348668 0.469332199767 100% => OK
Word variations: 50.6438774757 52.1807786196 97% => OK
How many sentences: 14.0 20.039408867 70% => OK
Sentence length: 29.5 23.2022227129 127% => OK
Sentence length SD: 72.3816416007 57.7814097925 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 171.214285714 141.986410481 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.5 23.2022227129 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.857142857143 0.724660767414 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 3.58251231527 167% => OK
Readability: 54.4394673123 51.9672348444 105% => OK
Elegance: 1.53333333333 1.8405768891 83% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.590928899528 0.441005458295 134% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.136967231321 0.135418324435 101% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0664170260814 0.0829849096947 80% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.642823405602 0.58762219726 109% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.192552046381 0.147661913831 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.267444659433 0.193483328276 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.123051312851 0.0970749176394 127% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.411158935885 0.42659136922 96% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.152160031543 0.0774707102158 196% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.389193073044 0.312017818177 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.107540665118 0.0698173142475 154% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.33743842365 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.87684729064 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.82512315271 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 6.46551724138 108% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 5.36822660099 93% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
Total topic words: 14.0 14.657635468 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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