In the given argument the author, who is the business manager of a television station, concludes that, in order to attract more viewers to their late night program and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, the station should restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level. Here the author states a causal relationship between the decreasing time of weather and local news, and the mishaps which happened due to this, such as complains from viewers and sponsors cancelling their contracts. The argument is based upon some vague assumptions which needs further information to bolster it.
Firstly, the author states that the television station has increased time to national news and decreased time to weather and local news, in their late night news program. Here much more information is needed that how much time is decreased in the weather and local news and how much time is increased in the national news. It can be that not much time is decreased to the local and weather news, or it can be that previously the national news program was very less and that increased by one minute and the other is just decreased by one minute. Proper data of their news channels program's former and recent time is requires for proof.
The author goes on stating that due to the decrease in time to the local and weather news, they are getting complaints from the viewers concerning about the station's coverage of weather and local news. Much more information is required here for proof, as the author assumes that the complains that were received from the viewers were regarding the decreased time. It can be that the viewers were complaining about the weather and local news data, they wanted proper data to screen. It can also be that only one viewer has raised all the complaints, therefore a proper statistics from the viewers is required and the information regarding the complaints are required, to get a proper evidence.
Lastly, the author states that due to their decreased time in weather and local news, the local businesses that used to advertise during the station's late night news program, have cancelled their contracts, which he believes is a causal to the former. It can be that the contracts have expired at this time and so they had to cancel their contract. Proper data in required regarding the contracts for support the argument, otherwise it is based on some false assumptions as of now.
Therefore, to strengthen the argument the author needs to provide certain details which he has assumed in the argument. If all the information regarding the time duration of the programs, the detailed review about the viewers complaints, and the time span of the contracts of local businesses and the reason for them to cancel their contracts, are received which can bolster the assumptions made by the author, then it can strengthen the argument. Otherwise, as of now the argument is based in some vague assumptions and does not stand strong.
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- not exactly
argument 3 -- OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 505 350
No. of Characters: 2432 1500
No. of Different Words: 171 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.74 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.816 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.489 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 169 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 131 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 88 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 58 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 29.706 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.048 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.529 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.414 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.623 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.172 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 158, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'stations'' or 'station's'?
Suggestion: stations'; station's
...s from the viewers concerning about the stations coverage of weather and local news. Muc...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, lastly, regarding, so, then, therefore, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 11.1786427146 206% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 20.0 13.6137724551 147% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 28.8173652695 135% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2487.0 2260.96107784 110% => OK
No of words: 505.0 441.139720559 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92475247525 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74048574033 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54318181569 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.368316831683 0.468620217663 79% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 754.2 705.55239521 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 71.7819169333 57.8364921388 124% => OK
Chars per sentence: 146.294117647 119.503703932 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.7058823529 23.324526521 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.29411764706 5.70786347227 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.364280243167 0.218282227539 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.148520278751 0.0743258471296 200% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.141493232202 0.0701772020484 202% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.229227362231 0.128457276422 178% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.124257586042 0.0628817314937 198% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 14.3799401198 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.85 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.86 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 98.500998004 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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