The following is a memorandum from the business manager of a television station.
"Over the past year, our late-night programs has devoted 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 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 revenue, we should restore time devoted to weather and local news to its former level."
The argument of restoring the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level is based on certain assumption and is rife with loopholes that argue otherwise.
First the author didn't give any information of the new timings given to the weather and local news or wheather they have stoped showing the weather or local news itself. so we cannot conclude anything here because we dont have any basis of comparison.
Second the author has not given any sort of information about the received complaints. there can be multiple reason for the complaints like, the local news or weather news are not accurate. The content of provided news are incendiary and causing disturbance.
also there can be numerous reason for which news channel is receiving complaints and which has nothing to do with the time of news.
Third author has stated that local businesses that used to advertise during late-night news program have just canceled their advertising contracts but author has not given any reason for the cancellation. Of all we know advertising contracts have been cancelled because of hike in charges or some other provider is providing better services to advertiser. Maybe there is increase in competion which leads to cancellation of advertising contracts.
Many news channel devote more time to the section which gets them higher viewership and in doing this also they maintain balance between local, national and weather news.
also we know that for every channel there is a prime time when they received maximum viewership and as national news is more important than local and weather news it is valid for news channel to devote more time to that.
but we cannot assume this alone as a reason to support the argument because channel can handle this situation by alloting some other different time for local and weather news.
Thus the argument is vague and fails to provide and substantial support to its conclusion due to lack of information and lack in logical reasoning and because the argument several unwarranted assuption it fails to convince the case that we should restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level.
Comments
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: 12 15
No. of Words: 361 350
No. of Characters: 1770 1500
No. of Different Words: 164 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.359 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.903 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.502 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 122 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 98 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 61 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 30.083 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.878 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.427 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.858 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.282 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 9 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...th loopholes that argue otherwise. First the author didnt give any informat...
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Line 9, column 18, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...otherwise. First the author didnt give any information of the new timings...
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Line 9, column 171, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: So
...owing the weather or local news itself. so we cannot conclude anything here becaus...
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Line 9, column 218, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...annot conclude anything here because we dont have any basis of comparison. ...
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Line 13, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...dont have any basis of comparison. Second the author has not given any sort...
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Line 17, column 88, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: There
...ormation about the received complaints. there can be multiple reason for the complain...
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Line 21, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Also
...ncendiary and causing disturbance. also there can be numerous reason for which ...
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Line 21, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: also,
...ncendiary and causing disturbance. also there can be numerous reason for which ...
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Line 25, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...thing to do with the time of news. Third author has stated that local busin...
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Line 33, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ellation of advertising contracts. Many news channel devote more time to th...
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Line 37, column 1, Rule ID: MANY_FEW_UNCOUNTABLE[2]
Message: Use 'much' or 'little' with uncountable nouns.
Suggestion: Much; Little
...n of advertising contracts. Many news channel devote more time to the se...
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Line 37, column 1, Rule ID: MANY_NN_U[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun news seems to be uncountable; consider using: 'much news', 'a good deal of news'.
Suggestion: Much news; A good deal of news
...n of advertising contracts. Many news channel devote more time to the section...
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Line 41, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Also
... local, national and weather news. also we know that for every channel there is...
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Line 41, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: also,
... local, national and weather news. also we know that for every channel there is...
^^^^
Line 45, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: But
...annel to devote more time to that. but we cannot assume this alone as a reason...
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Line 49, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...t time for local and weather news. Thus the argument is vague and fails to ...
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Line 53, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...for local and weather news. Thus the argument is vague and fails to prov...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, second, so, third, thus, sort of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 11.1786427146 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1873.0 2260.96107784 83% => OK
No of words: 360.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20277777778 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35587717469 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54485076814 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.466666666667 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 567.9 705.55239521 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.204544727 57.8364921388 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.785714286 119.503703932 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7142857143 23.324526521 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.21428571429 5.70786347227 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 9.0 5.15768463074 174% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 17.0 5.25449101796 324% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.319463014114 0.218282227539 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.125332631528 0.0743258471296 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0911478795767 0.0701772020484 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169784222876 0.128457276422 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0515819850904 0.0628817314937 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 14.3799401198 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 98.500998004 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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