Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increasingly more time to covering national news and less time to covering weather and local news. During the same time period, most of the complaints we received from viewers were concerned with the station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, several local businesses that used to run advertisements during our late-night news program have just cancelled 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 the coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs
The argument stated by author is based biased assumption. Unless these all assumptions are addressed we cannot corroborate the argument.
First, the author states that during late night more national news is shown but does not verify the exact time or the time-frame when the national news is covered. If the national news is shown after 12 PM or even later, there will not be much audiences to view it and so it should not impact the news industry.
Also, again the author does not mention the number of viewers who had reported complains. There can be a case where only four or five viewers raised the issue with the content shown. Furthermore, the author does not mention what exactly is the issue reported by the customers, although it was as the same time when the news channel was showing more national news at the late night slot, but we cannot verify the customer’s concerns were regarding the national news. The complains could be because of more advertisement or less authentic news.
Later, the author mentions that the advertisement contracts are being cancelled, however there is not any fact provided that why is the contract cancelled. It can be because the advertisement company does not agree with the price that the news company has asked them for.
So there are many such facts not mentioned in the argument and we would need more evidences to verify the claims of the author. Including the answers and evidence required, the argument can be definitely strengthened.
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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: 12 15
No. of Words: 253 350
No. of Characters: 1208 1500
No. of Different Words: 136 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.988 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.775 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.469 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 79 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 58 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 43 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 24 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.083 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.579 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.375 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.681 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.152 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 59, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Unless” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...d by author is based biased assumption. Unless these all assumptions are addressed we ...
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Line 5, column 240, Rule ID: MUCH_COUNTABLE[1]
Message: Use 'many' with countable nouns.
Suggestion: many
... 12 PM or even later, there will not be much audiences to view it and so it should n...
^^^^
Line 5, column 313, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...it should not impact the news industry. Also, again the author does not mention ...
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Line 9, column 549, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e advertisement or less authentic news. Later, the author mentions that the adve...
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Line 13, column 273, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...at the news company has asked them for. So there are many such facts not mention...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, regarding, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 28.8173652695 45% => OK
Preposition: 14.0 55.5748502994 25% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1273.0 2260.96107784 56% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 253.0 441.139720559 57% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03162055336 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98822939669 4.56307096286 87% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61283059525 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 137.0 204.123752495 67% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.541501976285 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 384.3 705.55239521 54% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => 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: 59.1882003068 57.8364921388 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.083333333 119.503703932 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0833333333 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.25 5.70786347227 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.280003522845 0.218282227539 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0949976231693 0.0743258471296 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.114509652226 0.0701772020484 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1387636364 0.128457276422 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.130974400917 0.0628817314937 208% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.3799401198 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 98.500998004 56% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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