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 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 news 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 revenues, we should restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level.
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.
In the memorandum, the business manager has stated a decision to increase time for national news over the late-night forecast for the station. Previously the station had dedicated more time for forecasting the local-news and weather predictions for the region. But now the manager has made some vague assumptions while making this decision.
The first assumption he made, prioritizing the national news over local-news and weather forecasts. Even though the manager's intentions were good for putting the nation over the local-news, the people did not like the decision. People were relying on the local-news bulletin for the regional important news. People were habitual to check next day weather forecast so that they can plan their day accordingly. But as the manager has reduced the forecasting time for the news, people started complaining about it. Because of the very same reason, people started shifting their viewing loyalty to the other television stations.
More on that, the station has observed that as the viewers got reduced the local businesses started getting less number of the views for their advertising. The impact of this was on the revenue. These people started canceling their contracts with the station.
After a year of complaints and with having lesser revenue the manager has revoked the decision to forecast national news over the local-news and weather forecast.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, first, if, so, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 19.6327345309 20% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 12.9520958084 8% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 3.0 13.6137724551 22% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 28.8173652695 45% => OK
Preposition: 21.0 55.5748502994 38% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1187.0 2260.96107784 52% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 220.0 441.139720559 50% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.39545454545 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.85128510684 4.56307096286 84% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65549095864 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 120.0 204.123752495 59% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.545454545455 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 356.4 705.55239521 51% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.3933047014 57.8364921388 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 91.3076923077 119.503703932 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.9230769231 23.324526521 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.92307692308 5.70786347227 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.348697255312 0.218282227539 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.137492366421 0.0743258471296 185% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101956323514 0.0701772020484 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.221292154285 0.128457276422 172% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0892853629888 0.0628817314937 142% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 48.3550499002 114% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.74 12.5979740519 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 98.500998004 56% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.1389221557 75% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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