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.
In the presented argument, there are various assumption taken, which when proven wrong , can make the conclusion fall apart completely. For instance, the author compares the late-night news to be more important than the news telecasted in the daytime, the reason for this is unknown. Also. there are various assumption which are nowhere support in the argument.
Firstly, it is stated that 'late night' news has been assigned more to national news than to weather and local news. It is assumed that people are viewing the same news channel more in the night rather than in day. Or it might be possible that the local and weather news are telecasted for sufficient of time in the day. If this held true, then the whole point of the conclusion will be held invalid. For example, if the viewers of the same channel in the day is more than that in night, then there is no meaning in alloting weather report or local news more time in the night.
Secondly, it is assumed that the complaints that are coming against the current channel policy, are coming from a huge proportion of the people who view this channel. However , if the case in reversed, that is, if the complaints are redundant and are coming on from the minorities than it would be not a wise decision to re-allot the former schedule of telecasting different programs in the channel. For example, if only a certain group of people are complaining via different measures like emails, letters etc, it would seem that the complaints are rife but in reality they are coming from a small group via different measures.
Lastly, one of the major flaw is that, the argument assumes that the late-night airing of program only constitute towards the advertisement revenue. Additionally, it is clearly stated that the channel has been airing the same schedule of programs for the past year, while the advertisement contracts have just been canceled. it may be possible that, the quality of national news is not up to the mark because of which the channel is losing the advertisement contracts. Perhaps, it may be possible that advertisement companies have found a better way of advertisement than to advertise in this news channel. If this possibility holds true, there will be no benefit conferred to the channel even if it resumes to former level of time devoted to weather and local news.
The argument is basically based on three logical fallacies, which when proved effective can render the conclusion unwarranted. However, if more details would have been provided as to what is resulting in above scenario than a clear and cogent case would have been made by the argument.
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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: 17 15
No. of Words: 449 350
No. of Characters: 2124 1500
No. of Different Words: 189 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.603 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.731 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.54 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 143 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 117 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 69 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.412 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.296 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.765 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.351 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.616 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.097 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 46, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'assumptions'?
Suggestion: assumptions
...e presented argument, there are various assumption taken, which when proven wrong , can ma...
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Line 1, column 87, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...ssumption taken, which when proven wrong , can make the conclusion fall apart comp...
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Line 1, column 285, Rule ID: ALSO_SENT_END[1]
Message: 'Also' is not used at the end of the sentence. Use 'as well' instead.
Suggestion: As well
...aytime, the reason for this is unknown. Also. there are various assumption which are...
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Line 1, column 285, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...aytime, the reason for this is unknown. Also. there are various assumption which are...
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Line 1, column 291, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: There
..., the reason for this is unknown. Also. there are various assumption which are nowher...
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Line 1, column 309, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'assumptions'?
Suggestion: assumptions
...his is unknown. Also. there are various assumption which are nowhere support in the argume...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...or local news more time in the night. Secondly, it is assumed that the complai...
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Line 5, column 219, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...he people who view this channel. However , if the case in reversed, that is, if th...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...a small group via different measures. Lastly, one of the major flaw is that, t...
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Line 7, column 375, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
...ment contracts have just been canceled. it may be possible that, the quality of na...
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Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...me devoted to weather and local news. The argument is basically based on three...
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Line 9, column 176, Rule ID: IF_WOULD_HAVE_VBN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'had been'?
Suggestion: had been
...n unwarranted. However, if more details would have been provided as to what is resulting in abo...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, then, while, as to, for example, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 37.0 19.6327345309 188% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 13.6137724551 147% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2184.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 449.0 441.139720559 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86414253898 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60321845022 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62497001859 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 204.123752495 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.436525612472 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 679.5 705.55239521 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 2.70958083832 295% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.3956962642 57.8364921388 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.333333333 119.503703932 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.9444444444 23.324526521 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.66666666667 5.70786347227 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 5.25449101796 228% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
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: 0.242061752114 0.218282227539 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0880197703813 0.0743258471296 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0881279212883 0.0701772020484 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123515174303 0.128457276422 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0996349393411 0.0628817314937 158% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.3550499002 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.99 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 98.500998004 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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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.