"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."
In the argument, a letter from business manager has received to televison station. It states that the national news during late hours have increased and time given for weather has decreased. The viewers have complained about this as well. Local business have canceled their late night advertising contracts with the television company. Hence, to attract more customers they should restore more time on weather and local news. The argument is inundated with vague terminalogies which are specious.
First of all, the passage has open up with complain from the viewers that the time period for weather and local news have impeded and there is an increase in national news. The author has not provided any further date to validate this claim as justified. What is the numeric data of complains from viewers? There could be possibility that only small group of people have complained about this issue.Thus, the author should provide sufficient date to make any decisions for the viewers.
Secondly, the passage has presented us with another notion that local business that used to advertise on our channel have canceled. The author has presented us with dubious assumption. There could be possibility that the advertised companys have been bankcrupt. Without citing much informaion about the advertise company's financial condition we cannot reach to cogent decisions by blaming television company's national news coverage.
In addition, the passage has notion that due to advertised company withdrawal from televisions there has been a drop of revenue and to attract more viewers we should restore weather and local news with national news. The author assumes that viewers can be attracted by local news and weather. There might be possibility that the viewers have switch their news channel with sports. In a recent survey there have been a abundant viewers for sport.
In conclusion, the argument is filled with spurious assumption about viweres comaplain. Cancellation advertised company have deteriorated televions companys revenue. Without lucid information about television and viewers interest the argument is subjected to fallacy.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 333 350
No. of Characters: 1771 1500
No. of Different Words: 159 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.272 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.318 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.56 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 137 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 115 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 46 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 15.857 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.797 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.333 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.331 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.525 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.101 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 61, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...etter from business manager has received to televison station. It states that the...
^^
Line 3, column 400, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Thus
...people have complained about this issue.Thus, the author should provide sufficient d...
^^^^
Line 5, column 300, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...t. Without citing much informaion about the advertise companys financial condition we cannot ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 417, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...rts. In a recent survey there have been a abundant viewers for sport. In concl...
^
Line 7, column 428, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'viewer'?
Suggestion: viewer
...ecent survey there have been a abundant viewers for sport. In conclusion, the argume...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, hence, if, second, secondly, so, thus, well, in addition, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1814.0 2260.96107784 80% => OK
No of words: 332.0 441.139720559 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.46385542169 5.12650576532 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.2685907696 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63927618444 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.487951807229 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 563.4 705.55239521 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 22.8473053892 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.3532369272 57.8364921388 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.380952381 119.503703932 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8095238095 23.324526521 68% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.38095238095 5.70786347227 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => 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: 0.291865785857 0.218282227539 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0939567911067 0.0743258471296 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104516452706 0.0701772020484 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.172592459953 0.128457276422 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.104848377005 0.0628817314937 167% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.3799401198 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 47.79 48.3550499002 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.09 12.5979740519 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 98.500998004 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 12.3882235529 57% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 11.1389221557 72% => 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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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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