"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 first look at the argument seems convincing and you will agree with the author that we should restore the time devoted t weather and local news o its former level. However, as we go deep into the matter, we can easily grasp many flaws and realize that the argument lacks the vital evidence to validate its claim.
Firstly, the author states that the late-night news program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news, but he has not provided any statistics to prove this. He should have studied the late-night news properly for the past year and provided data to show that the time for national news has been increased.
Secondly, the author states that they have received complaints from viewers about the station's coverage of weather and local news. Again, there is insufficient data to prove this. There can be several reasons why the program is not attracting more viewers. Maybe the content is uninteresting, or maybe it's the time of the day. The author should have conducted a survey for the late-night news program viewers to see if the increased time of national news is the actual reason behind them not getting more viewers.
Thirdly, the author states that local businesses that used to advertise during their late-night news program have cancelled their adverting contracts. Is the reason for them cancelling their contracts increased time for national news? If yes, how? Aren't advertisements shown during breaks? Do they not have commercial breaks? The author has made a false assumption and not provided proper reason for them losing the contracts.
To conclude, due to the above-stated flaws, the argument seems to be ill-founded. However, if the author had mentioned enough evidence and reasons, then the argument would have been infallible and leave no room for guessing. But as of now, the authenticity of the argument falls flat due to the insufficiency of the data provided.
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: 18 15
No. of Words: 325 350
No. of Characters: 1582 1500
No. of Different Words: 156 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.246 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.868 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.516 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 109 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 80 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 55 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 33 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.056 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.186 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.324 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.559 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.152 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 87, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'stations'' or 'station's'?
Suggestion: stations'; station's
...eived complaints from viewers about the stations coverage of weather and local news. Aga...
^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 303, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
... the content is uninteresting, or maybe its the time of the day. The author should ...
^^^
Line 7, column 249, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: Aren't
...ed time for national news? If yes, how? Arent advertisements shown during breaks? Do ...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.6327345309 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 55.5748502994 50% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1627.0 2260.96107784 72% => OK
No of words: 324.0 441.139720559 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02160493827 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58067513725 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 204.123752495 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.481481481481 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 488.7 705.55239521 69% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => 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: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 53.1028584941 57.8364921388 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.3888888889 119.503703932 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 23.324526521 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.83333333333 5.70786347227 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => 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: 0.379018132938 0.218282227539 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110475515165 0.0743258471296 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.132153054731 0.0701772020484 188% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.21736102834 0.128457276422 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.154989340941 0.0628817314937 246% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 14.3799401198 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.54 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 98.500998004 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 12.3882235529 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => 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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