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 discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
From the memorandum, its implied that,the complaints received from the viewers were concerned with the station's coverage of weather and local news. It however, does not throw any light on whether the concerns were due to the paucity in the amount of the content covered or is it the content itself, which is not appealing to the viewers. We cannot condone the fact that, there might have been a deterioration in the quality of the local or weather news that is being reported now, as compared to their previous coverage.
If this is true, restoration of the local and weather news coverage to its formal level would not yeild the results yearned for, by the business manager. Since now, it would mean more coverage of low-quality content, which would highly affect the viewership, there by, affecting the local business advertising contracts as well. This might even exacerbate the whole situation and might recoil in erratic ways. Since from the argument its evident that, its a late-night news program, the withdrawal of advertisement contracts by the local businesses might in the first place,no way be related to content being covered in the channel, but simply be an unpropituous time for advertising. Since their efforts in advertising might not reach majority of the population, it might just be cost-cutting step they have taken. Taking all these factors into consideration, it would be a step taken in haste to restore the local and weather news to former level, which might welcome unforeseen problems throwing the channel into deeper web of problems. It thus calls for a rigorous analysis of the situation, and careful steps to restore the viewership.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
minimum 3 arguments wanted.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 1.0 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 10 15
No. of Words: 277 350
No. of Characters: 1358 1500
No. of Different Words: 143 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.08 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.903 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.628 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 90 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 79 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 46 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 28 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.7 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.349 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.408 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.505 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.111 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 2 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 38, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , the
From the memorandum, its implied that,the complaints received from the viewers we...
^^^^
Line 1, column 104, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'stations'' or 'station's'?
Suggestion: stations'; station's
...rom the viewers were concerned with the stations coverage of weather and local news. It ...
^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 453, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...nce from the argument its evident that, its a late-night news program, the withdraw...
^^^
Line 3, column 574, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , no
...ocal businesses might in the first place,no way be related to content being covered...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, thus, well, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 55.5748502994 67% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1391.0 2260.96107784 62% => OK
No of words: 275.0 441.139720559 62% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05818181818 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07223819929 4.56307096286 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71258103432 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 204.123752495 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.56 0.468620217663 119% => OK
syllable_count: 423.9 705.55239521 60% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 19.7664670659 51% => 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: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.1605022133 57.8364921388 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.1 119.503703932 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.5 23.324526521 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 5.70786347227 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 2.0 5.15768463074 39% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.188184971769 0.218282227539 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0740184658395 0.0743258471296 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0711740286851 0.0701772020484 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149202987505 0.128457276422 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00270984506452 0.0628817314937 4% => 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: 16.2 14.3799401198 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 48.3550499002 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 12.197005988 103% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.34 8.32208582834 112% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 98.500998004 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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