"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."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The argument states that a channel which had increased its time of late time news for national news and reduced the time for local and weather news, over the past year, received complaints from viewers who were concerned with station's coverage of weather and local news. Also, the local businesses which used to advertise during late-night news have had canceled their advertising with them. Therefore, to redress this, the station has recommended restoring the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level. As can be seen, the recommendation proves to be futile for avoiding to lose further advertising revenues.
Firstly, we need to know what type of complaints were received during the time period, and what issues were the complaints about. The complaint might be about the content of the local news or the low accuracy of weather reports presented by the station. If so, increasing the time allotted for local news and weather reports would not resolve the complaints received.
Addressing the second reason stated, the local business which used to advertise during the late-night show, might have canceled due to other reasons. They might have canceled to lower their expenses related to advertising or these businesses have been shut down during the time period. Thus, the accurate reason for canceling advertisement contracts with the station should be provided. Hence, the recommendation of increasing the time allotted to local news and weather would not for sure stop the cancellation of advertisement contracts, as their underlying reasons for doing so might be entirely different and not related.
The recommendation can be assured to fulfill what it wants if strong pieces of evidence are provided. Evidence which states explicitly that the complaints received are in relation to less time allotted for local news and weather reports. Also, an investigation should be done to extract the reasons for cancelation of advertisement contracts. This reasons should be concerned with the lowering of time allotted.
Hence, in conclusion, the argument stands weak, as it fails to provide the required shreds of evidence which will strongly support the recommendation stated in the argument.
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: 16 15
No. of Words: 351 350
No. of Characters: 1824 1500
No. of Different Words: 156 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.328 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.197 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.757 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 133 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 109 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.938 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.459 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.625 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.372 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.596 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.098 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 582, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'avoiding losing'.
Suggestion: avoiding losing
... recommendation proves to be futile for avoiding to lose further advertising revenues. Firstl...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, hence, if, second, so, therefore, thus, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1873.0 2260.96107784 83% => OK
No of words: 351.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.33618233618 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32839392791 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79721013553 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.475783475783 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 568.8 705.55239521 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.0412329984 57.8364921388 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.0625 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9375 23.324526521 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.6875 5.70786347227 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => 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: 0.388799778695 0.218282227539 178% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.144101658866 0.0743258471296 194% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.138306143967 0.0701772020484 197% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.221012190308 0.128457276422 172% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.16282838387 0.0628817314937 259% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.3799401198 102% => 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: 13.69 12.5979740519 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 98.500998004 85% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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