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 issue is related to the memorandum from the business manager of a television station.Dealing depth with the memorandum, it claims that the argument is true at the first glance but there are many other possibilities to consider while discussing the late-night news program.
Firstly, the manager mentioned that he received the complaints from the viewers who were concerned about the weather forecast and local news.But he did not provide any evidence that the people complained only against the late-night news program.There may be chances that the television station neglected the weather and local news during the morning hours.There is no proof that highlights the decrease of viewers of the late-night news program or any information that the people are not interested in national news.The manager did not provide any statement against the national news.So there is a possibility that the viewers are interested in national news.
Secondly , he mentioned that the local businesses have canceled the advertising contract with them.This contract cannot be correlated to the late-night news program only.There are chances that the local businesses are being closed down or their products are not really interested by the people.It might be the situation that the television station is not bothering about the advertising contract or fulfilling the deals of the contract.There is no strong evidence given that they cancelled the contract considering only one program.He did not mention any other facts related to the advertisements timings or any other related proof.
In addition to the above argument, there is no guarantee that the late-night news program will gain its viewers as before.There is a possibility that people are not opting to watch news during late nights.The manager mentioned that there might be a possibility to attract more viewers but did not suggest that there is decrease in the viewers. He cannot relate a one or two hours news program with the overall complaints of the people.So,I suggest the television station manager to cover the local news and weather related statistics twice or thrice a day.
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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: 7 15
No. of Words: 352 350
No. of Characters: 1765 1500
No. of Different Words: 140 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.331 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.014 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.657 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 128 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 109 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 65 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 43 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 50.286 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 21.985 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.857 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.516 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.773 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.224 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, may, really, second, secondly, so, while, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 55.5748502994 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1807.0 2260.96107784 80% => OK
No of words: 337.0 441.139720559 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36201780415 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28457229495 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92813477324 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 204.123752495 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.439169139466 0.468620217663 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 559.8 705.55239521 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => 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: 5.0 19.7664670659 25% => 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: 67.0 22.8473053892 293% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 185.734218711 57.8364921388 321% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 361.4 119.503703932 302% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 67.4 23.324526521 289% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 14.8 5.70786347227 259% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 19.0 5.25449101796 362% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.367172765309 0.218282227539 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.224331487886 0.0743258471296 302% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0727893973586 0.0701772020484 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.248585326324 0.128457276422 194% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0757647544359 0.0628817314937 120% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 37.5 14.3799401198 261% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -4.99 48.3550499002 -10% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 14.6 7.1628742515 204% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 30.6 12.197005988 251% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 14.99 12.5979740519 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.15 8.32208582834 122% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 98.500998004 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 28.5 12.3882235529 230% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 28.8 11.1389221557 259% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 29.0 11.9071856287 244% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
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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