The argument concludes that to attract more viewers to the late night news program, the television station should restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level. However, this argument fails to mention several key factors on the basis of which it could be evaluated. Without these essential evidences, the argument remains unpersuasive.
Firstly, the author mentions that after to the curtailing time devoted to weather and local news local business that used to advertise during their late night show have canceled their advertising contracts. However, this correlation is not substantiated by any reliable evidence. The reason why local business have canceled contracts may not be due to the fact that the tv station has decreased its time on weather and local news. Ir is possible that due the low quality of the national news portion which now occupies of greater portion of time this cancelling of contracts have happened. The author did not specify the reason behind the cancellation. If the author had shown that the cancellation has happened specifically for the reason of curtailing time devoted to weather and local news then the argument could have been much more convincing.
Secondly, the author readily jumps into the conclusion that if the tv station restored its original show time allocation then it would be able to attract more viewers to the program. However , there is no reason to believe that only because of these steps are taken the station would gain popularity. Gaining popularity and acheiving business success for a tv station is a fairly unpredictable scenario. It is dependent on so many factors that there cannot be assumed a linear relationship. If the author had presented any reliable data from other television station's popularity gain correlated with their shows then it would have been a bit cogent. It is possible that as the television station is focusing more on national news, it would get a nationwide popularity due to that. Consequently, the station would be able to generate more review from the advertisers. The author of the argument assumes that the channel has not the capacity to garner nationwide recognition. Again, it is possible that as the channel restores it original structure of shows it would lose popularity among newly gained fans.
In conclusion, the argument relies on so many unstated assumptions and the author did not provide convincing evidence supporting his opinion. In order to assess the merits of a particular decision it is necessary to complete knowledge of all the contributing factors. If the author had provided reliable data or survey results along with his/her suggestions then the argument would have been much more convincing.
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 8 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 444 350
No. of Characters: 2254 1500
No. of Different Words: 193 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.59 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.077 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.698 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 168 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 141 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 92 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 53 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.143 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.363 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.571 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.326 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.501 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.07 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 348, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ssential evidences, the argument remains unpersuasive. Firstly, the author me...
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Line 3, column 547, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...now occupies of greater portion of time this cancelling of contracts have happened. ...
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Line 5, column 91, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...sion that if the tv station restored its original show time allocation then it wo...
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Line 5, column 193, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...act more viewers to the program. However , there is no reason to believe that only...
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Line 5, column 494, 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.
...annot be assumed a linear relationship. If the author had presented any reliable d...
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Line 5, column 586, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ther television stations popularity gain correlated with their shows then it woul...
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Line 7, column 238, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...it is necessary to complete knowledge of all the contributing factors. If the aut...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 28.8173652695 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 16.3942115768 146% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2300.0 2260.96107784 102% => OK
No of words: 443.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19187358916 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58776254615 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78759688119 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 204.123752495 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.460496613995 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 728.1 705.55239521 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.4452073878 57.8364921388 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.523809524 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0952380952 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.47619047619 5.70786347227 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.222104126694 0.218282227539 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0661422967655 0.0743258471296 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0948325425133 0.0701772020484 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.143942477427 0.128457276422 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0971634026126 0.0628817314937 155% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.3799401198 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 98.500998004 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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