"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 wit

At first, I am intrigued by the plausibly impressive statement given by the business manager of the television station which states that, "Allocating more time to national news and less time to local and weather news has led to cancellation of advertisers contracts and he believes that restoring the former time for weather and local news would fix the issue". However, on close scrutiny, one may find that the author not only fails to address certain key issues but also misses out certain key aspects of the logic and information which makes the argument incoherent, impalatable and unimpressive as illustrated below.

The author has ruled out any other possibilities for cancellation of contracts. It could be possible that the advertisers withdrew their contracts because of a quarrel. In addition to that, it might also be possible that the advertisers have found a way to make more money by showing their advertisements in a different television station. Moreover, it could also be possible that the people are watching a different channel at the same time, which could be a factor for losing advertising revenue. Therefore, the author needs to provide conclusive evidence to support his argument.

The author has assumed that changing the time to default for weather and local news would help the station restore its advertising revenue. There is good chance that doing so would do nothing since the people have already switched to a different channel for watching the weather and local news. As a result, the television station would suffer. Furthermore, people have changed their habits and they are playing a sport instead of watching television.

I would reserve my endorsement of the given argument until the author incorporates the major topics mentioned in a fore said analysis. This inclusion would make the argument more convincing and logical. Moreover, the author should provide cogent evidence to support his arguments.

Votes
Average: 5.1 (3 votes)
Essay Categories

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 385, Rule ID: CLOSE_SCRUTINY[1]
Message: Use simply 'scrutiny'.
Suggestion: scrutiny
... would fix the issue'. However, on close scrutiny, one may find that the author not only ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, in addition, as a result

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 19.6327345309 36% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 55.5748502994 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1647.0 2260.96107784 73% => OK
No of words: 312.0 441.139720559 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.27884615385 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20279927342 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89283551001 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 204.123752495 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.525641025641 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 513.9 705.55239521 73% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 83.2804764342 57.8364921388 144% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.642857143 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2857142857 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 5.70786347227 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => 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: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.171735726534 0.218282227539 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.050090288358 0.0743258471296 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0925036573094 0.0701772020484 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104962183214 0.128457276422 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.092670110929 0.0628817314937 147% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.64 12.5979740519 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 30.0 12.3882235529 242% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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argument 1 -- OK

argument 2 -- not exactly

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flaws:
also need to argue '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.'

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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: 14 15
No. of Words: 312 350
No. of Characters: 1597 1500
No. of Different Words: 162 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.203 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.119 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.744 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 119 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 97 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 62 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.286 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.797 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.643 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.355 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.572 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.091 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5