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 canceled 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
The speaker unreasonably concludes that to increases their number of users they should expand the coverage of weather and local news on news programs.The evidence is insubstantial,irrelevant and unrepresentative to the issues involved.Unless a number of questions were answered satisfactorily this cannot be considered as a cogent argument.
Firstly the speaker says that over past year is mentioned but it would be more evident if there was a statistical data from the previous year.It is mentioned that national news is more time consuming and there is less time for weather and local news.There was clear data of how long does each news take for example is it an hour or two hours that would me more helpful to analyse the argument and speaker says that viewers were concerned about coverage of weather and local news but it would be essential if it was given clear information which place it refers to is it a city or a state.Why were viewers exactly concerned to weather was there any hurricane or any bad weather conditions which was not covered in the news.
Secondly there is no clear information given about the local businesses advertise and the reason behind them cancelling the advertising contract has to been provided by the speaker to get an insight of it.What might be the reason for them to cancel was there any personal rivalry or is it regarding their company revenue loss are the details which helps in understanding the argument.
Thirdly the speaker is unclear as what is the relation between the advertising revenues and the coverage of weather and local news how are these two linked together and there might be a chance that viewers has decreased because of advertising is more when compared to actual information of news.How could coverage of weather and local news expansion would avoid them losing advertising revenues is not giving a clear idea of the argument.
In the conclusion this argument would have been more eloquent if the speaker had given more information on the expansion of the coverage of weather and local news would help them gain more viewers and related data has to be provided taken by the viewers on their point of view.Without ruling out alternative explanations and in the absence of requisite information this argument can't be deemed to be persuasive
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: 6 15
No. of Words: 395 350
No. of Characters: 1902 1500
No. of Different Words: 173 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.458 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.815 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.676 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 127 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 106 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 68 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 40 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 65.833 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 16.385 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.833 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.554 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.91 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.311 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 151, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
...weather and local news on news programs.The evidence is insubstantial,irrelevant an...
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Line 1, column 180, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , irrelevant
...s programs.The evidence is insubstantial,irrelevant and unrepresentative to the issues invo...
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Line 1, column 236, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Unless
...unrepresentative to the issues involved.Unless a number of questions were answered sat...
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Line 5, column 143, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: It
...statistical data from the previous year.It is mentioned that national news is more...
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Line 5, column 251, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: There
...is less time for weather and local news.There was clear data of how long does each ne...
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Line 5, column 589, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Why
...ce it refers to is it a city or a state.Why were viewers exactly concerned to weath...
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Line 9, column 206, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: What
... by the speaker to get an insight of it.What might be the reason for them to cancel ...
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Line 13, column 296, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: How
... compared to actual information of news.How could coverage of weather and local new...
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Line 17, column 278, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Without
...n by the viewers on their point of view.Without ruling out alternative explanations and...
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Line 17, column 380, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
... of requisite information this argument cant be deemed to be persuasive
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, as to, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 34.0 19.6327345309 173% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 11.1786427146 179% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 55.5748502994 83% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1937.0 2260.96107784 86% => OK
No of words: 386.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01813471503 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43248042346 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93815850092 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.440414507772 0.468620217663 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 613.8 705.55239521 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 5.0 19.7664670659 25% => 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: 77.0 22.8473053892 337% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 135.496715827 57.8364921388 234% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 387.4 119.503703932 324% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 77.2 23.324526521 331% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 18.4 5.70786347227 322% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.261761754636 0.218282227539 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.148936584824 0.0743258471296 200% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0901871771122 0.0701772020484 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148936584824 0.128457276422 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0901871771122 0.0628817314937 143% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 40.8 14.3799401198 284% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -6.68 48.3550499002 -14% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 14.6 7.1628742515 204% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 33.3 12.197005988 273% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 13.02 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.77 8.32208582834 129% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 98.500998004 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 29.0 12.3882235529 234% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 32.8 11.1389221557 294% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 33.0 11.9071856287 277% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
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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