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 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 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 our coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs.
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.
At first glimpse, the argument seems to be plausible. however, a closer scrutiny of the evidences reveals that, a lot of significant queries yet to be responded to consider the argument valid and irrefutable. In this assertion, the author concludes that, in order to attract more viewers to news programs and to avoid losing any further advertisement revenues, they should expand the coverage of weather and local news on all of the news program. To substantiate the conclusion the author cites several evidences like, the complaints received from the viewers, cancelling of the advertising contracts and so on. however, before tha argument can be properly evaluated, three evidences is need to be discussed.
first ofall, the actual data about the number of complaints received from the viewers should be provided. is the complaints received from the viewers are significant enough to draw a conclusion about the people's preferences towards the news? The author in this argument hasn't provided any statistical data by relying which we can come to a decision about the people's like or dislikes. however, it may be possible that, the number complaints received from the viewers is very lower compared to the number of viewers. so a decision cannot be made under a insignificant number of complaints. Since it doesn't provide enough evidence to prove that, the news content is annoying the viewers. if the scenario has merit, then the conclusion drawn in the original argument is significantly weakened.
Secondly, the actual reason to cancel the advertisement contracts should be provided. is devoting less time to weather and local news is the only reason for canceling the advertisement contracts? The author hasn't provided any specific reason behind the canceling of the advertisement contracts. it can be possible that, the advertisement contracts has been canceled due to other reason. Various factors can play a rule behind this cancellation, such as: people are not willing to watch the news due to bad presentation of the news, or maybe the product that was being advertised, company has been stopped it's production. And that's why the company has canceled their advertisement contracts. so there is no relation between the cancellation of the contracts and the weather and local news time. if the above is true, the argument doesn't hold water.
Last but not least, there is no evidence about the actual viewers and the contents of the news. who are the actual viewers of the news? are they teenagers, or older people, or employee persons? it can be possible that, the most of the viewers are those persons, who has become very busy for their study or work pressures and that's why they are not interested to watch the news. further there is a possibility that, the content of the news has changed in recent days. so many violent news are being seen in the news and that's why people are less interested to see the news. if the above is true, the argument is totally flawed.
Therefore, the argument can be considered as untenable, due to lack of persuasive evidences and unstated assumptions. To further fortifying this argument, the author is suggested to provide the evidences as follows: he should provide the actual number of the complaints received, he should provide the actual reason behind the canceling of the advertisement contracts, he should provide the information about the news content and news viewers. By stating these evidences, the argument can be considered as tenable and irrefutable.
Comments
Essay evaluation 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: 15 15
No. of Words: 580 350
No. of Characters: 2870 1500
No. of Different Words: 217 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.907 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.948 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.766 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 217 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 170 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 118 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 69 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 38.667 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 18.168 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.733 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.413 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.652 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.181 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...assertion, the author concludes that, in order to attract more viewers to news pr...
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...e coverage of weather and local news on all of the news program. To substantiate the concl...
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...ers. so a decision cannot be made under a insignificant number of complaints. Sin...
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Suggestion: hasn't
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...nceling of the advertisement contracts. it can be possible that, the advertisement...
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...ny has been stopped its production. And thats why the company has canceled their adve...
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...ime. if the above is true, the argument doesnt hold water. Last but not least, th...
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...l viewers and the contents of the news. who are the actual viewers of the news? are...
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..., or older people, or employee persons? it can be possible that, the most of the v...
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Suggestion: So
...of the news has changed in recent days. so many violent news are being seen in the...
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Line 13, column 471, Rule ID: MANY_NN_U[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun news seems to be uncountable; consider using: 'much violent news', 'a good deal of violent news'.
Suggestion: much violent news; a good deal of violent news
...the news has changed in recent days. so many violent news are being seen in the news and thats wh...
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Suggestion: If
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 39.0 19.6327345309 199% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 11.1786427146 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 71.0 55.5748502994 128% => OK
Nominalization: 26.0 16.3942115768 159% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2954.0 2260.96107784 131% => OK
No of words: 576.0 441.139720559 131% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12847222222 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89897948557 4.56307096286 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84301645674 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 204.123752495 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.404513888889 0.468620217663 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 907.2 705.55239521 129% => 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: 19.0 8.76447105788 217% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 19.7664670659 152% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 61.2787891525 57.8364921388 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.4666666667 119.503703932 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.53333333333 5.70786347227 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 27.0 5.25449101796 514% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 19.0 6.88822355289 276% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.220593861189 0.218282227539 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0701507841808 0.0743258471296 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0837087236198 0.0701772020484 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139763906927 0.128457276422 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0424495019284 0.0628817314937 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.62 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 98.500998004 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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