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 claim seems to contain some misrepresentation of facts and a ill judgement with facts. First, the time period of observation is quite long as several seasons pass by in an year. A discussion on rating over months should be provided to generate a clear picture in reader. There might have been precipitous fall in particular months than others but the claim is quite misguiding belying such precious facts.
Secondly, the nature of complaints concerning weather and local news are not discussed. Therefore, the claim fails to affirm whether the lack of air-time directly affected for complaints. The quality of service, inaccuracy of predictions or facts, misrepresentation are some possible causes for such complaints.
Then again, in the mention of local businesses cancelling contracts doesn't include the reasons or background. The managers may failed to maintain the contract agreement or a sudden change in regulations may have affect such quick response. Futher, the socio-economic background has not discussed. If there had been a civil uphealval or economic crisis then local businesses are forced to retain their expenses due to such truculent situations.
Finally, the conclusion does not justify in which way that restoring air-time allocation will regain or lessen business contracts or decrease viewers complaints. A proper procedure is not detailed under these concentrations. The manger seems under a mere belief stating ,without a viewers' consensus, that the viewers may increase with suggested remedy, without improving the quality of service which is not depicted.
For afforementioned reasons, the claim include several random details without providing a firm foundation to corraborate with the final decision of restoring air-time allocation.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
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: 15 15
No. of Words: 269 350
No. of Characters: 1467 1500
No. of Different Words: 166 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.05 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.454 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.005 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 119 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 94 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 67 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.933 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.836 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.297 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.582 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.025 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 64, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...ain some misrepresentation of facts and a ill judgement with facts. First, the ti...
^
Line 1, column 174, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...uite long as several seasons pass by in an year. A discussion on rating over month...
^^
Line 9, column 69, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...f local businesses cancelling contracts doesnt include the reasons or background. The ...
^^^^^^
Line 13, column 270, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...manger seems under a mere belief stating ,without a viewers consensus, that the vi...
^^
Line 13, column 282, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'viewers'' or 'viewer's'?
Suggestion: viewers'; viewer's
... under a mere belief stating ,without a viewers consensus, that the viewers may increas...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, in particular
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.6327345309 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 4.0 28.8173652695 14% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 55.5748502994 61% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1518.0 2260.96107784 67% => OK
No of words: 268.0 441.139720559 61% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.66417910448 5.12650576532 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04607285448 4.56307096286 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08795654228 2.78398813304 111% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.626865671642 0.468620217663 134% => OK
syllable_count: 453.6 705.55239521 64% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.7777714104 57.8364921388 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.2 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8666666667 23.324526521 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.46666666667 5.70786347227 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => 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: 0.115864349041 0.218282227539 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0371729162099 0.0743258471296 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0469718897864 0.0701772020484 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.058052480621 0.128457276422 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0255144708744 0.0628817314937 41% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.25 12.5979740519 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.96 8.32208582834 120% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 12.3882235529 57% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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