The following is a memorandum from the business manager of WLSS television station.
"Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increasingly more time to covering national news and less time to covering weather and local news. During the same time period, most of the complaints we received from viewers were concerned with the station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, several local businesses that used to run advertisements during our late-night news program have just cancelled 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 the coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs."
I disagree with the author's argument that in order to attract more number of viewers to the program and avoid losing any further advertising contracts, the television station must restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its formal level. The argument does not make sense because it fails to provide specific evidence that could have helped understand the argument and its claims in entirety.
First, there is no specific evidence that the local and weather news was of more priority than the national news. Considering the case that national news was having more importance than the local news and weather news at the period of time when the television station devoted increased time to national news would defeat the purpose of the television station administration of increasing the viewers as some viewers might switch to other stations showing national news. This could further reduce the number of viewers currently present.
Second, there is no specific evidence of the ratio of viewers who complained to the total number of viewers formerly. If the ratio is too small, then it does not make sense to show more of local and weather news because the large majority of viewers do not require the change. Hypothetically consider that there were 2000 viewers formerly out of which only 50 have complained that the station is not showing weather and local news. In this case, if the channel restores its coverage to the former level, it will defeat the interest of the remaining 1950 viewers who have not complained.
Third, there is no specific evidence that the total number of viewers of late-night news program has increased or decreased as compared to former levels. If the total number of viewers has increased to due to more devotion to national news formerly, it could compensate with the contracts that the station is losing from local advertising agencies. Hence, it would not be beneficial to restore the coverage back to its former level if the loss in revenue due to the decreasing number of viewers interested in national news is more than what is recovered by maintaining the advertising contracts.
Since the argument provided by the author does not provide specific evidence such as the priority of national news over local and weather news, the ratio of viewers who complained to the total number of viewers and the number of viewers in comparison to former levels in late-night news program, therefore I disagree with the author's argument and its claims in its entirety.
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Essay evaluation report
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 418 350
No. of Characters: 2061 1500
No. of Different Words: 150 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.522 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.931 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.522 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 155 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 126 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 79 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 35 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 32.154 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.363 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.615 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.475 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.67 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.178 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 21, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
I disagree with the authors argument that in order to attract more ...
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Line 3, column 226, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
... the local news and weather news at the period of time when the television station devoted inc...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 327, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... program, therefore I disagree with the authors argument and its claims in its entirety...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, hence, if, second, so, then, therefore, third, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2099.0 2260.96107784 93% => OK
No of words: 418.0 441.139720559 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02153110048 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52162009685 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55788618954 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 204.123752495 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.377990430622 0.468620217663 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 657.9 705.55239521 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => 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: 32.0 22.8473053892 140% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 88.1070489292 57.8364921388 152% => OK
Chars per sentence: 161.461538462 119.503703932 135% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.1538461538 23.324526521 138% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.69230769231 5.70786347227 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.310588201249 0.218282227539 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.138765783027 0.0743258471296 187% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.120575102407 0.0701772020484 172% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.211830339029 0.128457276422 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.102393557448 0.0628817314937 163% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.3 14.3799401198 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.0 48.3550499002 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 12.197005988 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.43 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.98 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 98.500998004 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.1389221557 133% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.9071856287 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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