"Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increased time to national news in less time to weather news or 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 advertised 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.''
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.
The argument wants to highlight the point that the transition of the local news to national news is leading to the loss of revenue due to local people have stopped giving their advertisements. The provided argument is not having a firm ground, as national and local news are both equally important. Moreover, the local news has a lot of drawbacks.
Firstly, the national news is seen all over the nation and which would lead to a higher number of individuals from all over the nation to watch the channel and therefore the TRP rating would also be higher and this would lead to the increase in the advertisements from national-level businesses, which would further result in an increase in revenue.
Secondly, the major problem with the local news is that the reporters are forced to get news from a small area and sometimes in that area lot of things have not taken place in that area, So the reporters are forced to get really lame news at times like a cow has fallen into a well, etc. This leads to the deterioration in the public image of the channel and it leads to a decrease in the number of viewers. And, all of us know that fewer viewers will result in fewer advertisements.
Thirdly, people from any place do require all sorts of news like local, national, etc. So providing more time to the local news is like giving them a reason to go and watch other news channels for gaining knowledge of the nation. That means the channel is itself forcing its viewers to go watch other channels, which is not good for the channel. This would lead to a decrease in the TRP and will result in a decrease in revenue from advertisements.
To conclude, we understand that the local news is important but binding a large amount of fixed time to the local news is going to make things a lot more complicated. And, it would result in a loss rather than gaining profit.
Comments
e-rater score report
Out of topic
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 11 15
No. of Words: 337 350
No. of Characters: 1495 1500
No. of Different Words: 141 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.285 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.436 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.46 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 90 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 60 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 38 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 21 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 30.636 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 21.291 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.455 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.415 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.669 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.121 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, moreover, really, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, well
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 : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 55.5748502994 97% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 16.3942115768 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1536.0 2260.96107784 68% => OK
No of words: 337.0 441.139720559 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.55786350148 5.12650576532 89% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28457229495 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57020917867 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 204.123752495 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.436201780415 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 469.8 705.55239521 67% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 85.3471158125 57.8364921388 148% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.153846154 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.9230769231 23.324526521 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.53846153846 5.70786347227 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.316427457021 0.218282227539 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.120375723064 0.0743258471296 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.086286132267 0.0701772020484 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.193149594534 0.128457276422 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0306401280975 0.0628817314937 49% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.02 48.3550499002 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.46 12.5979740519 75% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.55 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 98.500998004 58% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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