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 time 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 just canceled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to the program and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level.
The writer of the argument suggests that in order to attract viewers to late-night news again, they should allocate more time of the program to local news and weather rather than national news; however, this recommendation cannot be correct because it relies on a series of doubtful speculations that I will delve into them below.
The first problem with the memorandum is lack of details. The writer points out that viewers have complained because of the content of the news. Nonetheless, there is no evidence to prove the authenticity of this assumption on the ground that we do not know how many people complains about the coverage of the news according to the population of the area or perhaps these complaints are related to a specific group who have a hostile purpose toward television policies because of their positions in society. Therefore, the argument's suggestion would be unreasonable without any explanation of the details of the complaints.
The mere fact that there is a negative correlation between the national news and the number of viewer cannot suffice to show that the viewers do not watch the late-night news program because of the broadcasting of cosmopolitan news. The writer presumes that people are more of local news than international one, so they do not keep abreast of news because of its content. it is not logical to draw conclusion based on this assumption. other factors can lead to viewers’ drop which are sadly lacking in this argument. perhaps viewers track news from other sources such as the internet on their phones during the day which is easier than being awake at night. these sources are replete with different kinds of news including national news, local events, and sports, to name but a few. Thus, it takes shorter time to exploit these sources than late-night news program. Maybe there are deficiencies in showing international news such as using invalid sources, having specific orientation that people do not appreciate.
The third problem with the argument involves the unconvincing assumption. The writers goes on to mention that viewers do not watch the program because of its coverage. The manager overlooks the fact the other ways can attract viewers to the late-night news rather than the type of the news. For instance, the manager can invite some commentators to explain the news down to the smallest details. He can also replace old news reporter with accomplished ones.
To sum up, the writers suggestion cannot be acceptable because it depends on some assumptions which are challenging. The writer can strengthen his recommendation by adding changing states or some details to the mentioned solutions.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 437 350
No. of Characters: 2190 1500
No. of Different Words: 211 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.572 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.011 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.722 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 161 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 132 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 71 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.706 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 21.138 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.706 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.356 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.571 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.113 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 59, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...with the memorandum is lack of details. The writer points out that viewers have com...
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Line 5, column 524, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'arguments'' or 'argument's'?
Suggestion: arguments'; argument's
...ir positions in society. Therefore, the arguments suggestion would be unreasonable withou...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 373, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
...abreast of news because of its content. it is not logical to draw conclusion based...
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Line 9, column 436, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Other
...aw conclusion based on this assumption. other factors can lead to viewers' drop ...
^^^^^
Line 9, column 523, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Perhaps
...ich are sadly lacking in this argument. perhaps viewers track news from other sources s...
^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 664, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: These
...ch is easier than being awake at night. these sources are replete with different kind...
^^^^^
Line 13, column 87, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'go'.
Suggestion: go
...he unconvincing assumption. The writers goes on to mention that viewers do not watch...
^^^^
Line 13, column 169, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ch the program because of its coverage. The manager overlooks the fact the other wa...
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Line 13, column 459, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...d news reporter with accomplished ones. To sum up, the writers suggestion canno...
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Line 17, column 17, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'writers'' or 'writer's'?
Suggestion: writers'; writer's
...complished ones. To sum up, the writers suggestion cannot be acceptable because...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, may, nonetheless, so, then, therefore, third, thus, for instance, such as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 55.5748502994 117% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2252.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 437.0 441.139720559 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1533180778 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57214883401 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.797010859 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 204.123752495 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505720823799 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 686.7 705.55239521 97% => 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: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 81.1097250643 57.8364921388 140% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.6 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.85 23.324526521 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.05 5.70786347227 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => 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: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.327815673367 0.218282227539 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100949591802 0.0743258471296 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0858986970991 0.0701772020484 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.180286885738 0.128457276422 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.118180873762 0.0628817314937 188% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.3799401198 96% => OK
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: 12.59 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 98.500998004 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.