The argument claims that the local news has been neglected by the late-night news programme and will lead to lesser viewership and revenue if appropriate action is not taken. It must be examined who the complainants are. Do they constitute only a small part of the community or is it coming from a wide-ranging audience? A proper survey must be conducted with the sole emphasis on figuring out the whether the issue claimed is serious. Other data like TRP ratings and viewership data should be examined to see whether there really is a significant decrease that the station should worry about. It should also be analyzed what demographic of viewers are dissatisfied. Has a certain place or section of the audience been misrepresented? Such issues will need to be worked upon immediately as the argument suggests. Although it could also be that the complaints could only be from a small section of disgruntled viewers just because a trivial issue relating to them was not covered.
Further, it must be examined whether any pressing national news was being covered during that period leading to lesser time available for other sections. Major elections or trade agreements might have taken precedence over other news. It should be examined if there has been a decrease in quality of the content produced on the show leading to the dissatisfaction of the viewers. A probe onto whether all sections were adequately represented must be done. If major local news stories where handled very carelessly the concerned reporters must be reprimanded.
The stations' focus and objective of its late-night show must also be known. Was it started to cover majorly local news or other national news? Are there other programmes already set up by the television station to cover local news? Has there been a policy shift taken by the station to expand its horizon to be a national news channel? The losses, if any, from the withdrawal of the local advertising contracts, must be compared with the total revenue generated by the show. If the new approach is profiting through other revenue streams then the validity of the argument is compromised. The real reason for the withdrawal of the advertising contract must also be known. Is it due to other issues like changes in the company’s hierarchy or some internal disputes between the companies? Certain important global events like the Olympics or the World Cup could also drive advertisers away to greener pastures. A direct correlation between the loss of advertising and lack of local news has only been assumed and not substantiated in the argument.
Essay evaluation report
flaws:
the arguments are not addressed properly. Here goes a sample:
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ? out of 6
Category: ? Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 24 15
No. of Words: 430 350
No. of Characters: 2126 1500
No. of Different Words: 216 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.554 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.944 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.733 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 150 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 126 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 83 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 49 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.917 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.972 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.458 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.292 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.403 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.062 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 457, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” 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.
...re adequately represented must be done. If major local news stories where handled ...
^^
Line 5, column 476, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” 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.
...he total revenue generated by the show. If the new approach is profiting through o...
^^
Line 5, column 1051, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... and not substantiated in the argument.
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, really, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 19.6327345309 178% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 55.5748502994 92% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2173.0 2260.96107784 96% => OK
No of words: 430.0 441.139720559 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05348837209 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55372829156 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81722757826 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 204.123752495 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502325581395 0.468620217663 107% => OK
syllable_count: 682.2 705.55239521 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.9336424525 57.8364921388 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.5416666667 119.503703932 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9166666667 23.324526521 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.08333333333 5.70786347227 19% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 3.0 5.15768463074 58% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.180426337273 0.218282227539 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0594147296891 0.0743258471296 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0750993343435 0.0701772020484 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133981226869 0.128457276422 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0472652719224 0.0628817314937 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 14.3799401198 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.3550499002 112% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.71 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 98.500998004 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
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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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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