"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."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
In order to evaluate the argument that it would be beneficial for a news station to return to their prior weather and local news coverage would require specific evidence. Ratings for their newscast, viewer attraction, and support of small businesses would all prove beneficial in evauating this argument.
The business manager of a a television station has made the claim that rating and viewship of their late-night coverage has dimminished since dropping coverage of weather and local news. This would signify that ratings have dropped for their coverage, but there is no numerical evidence presented by the business manager to support this claim. The addition of numerical evident, such as Neilson Ratings would prove beneficial in strenghtening the argument to revert back to local news and weather during the stations late-night time slot.
Since the television station has shifted away from weather and local news in their late-night time slot, the television business man has reported receiving multiple viewer complaints. The question is... How many complaints? Is the business man making the claim that every 9/10 views are unhappy, or has many complaints been 25/100 views? Once again there is no statiscical evidence supporting this claim. If 90% of views are unhappy, there is obviously a problem, but if it is only 25% that is a significant difference. Thus, statistical evidence would enhance this argument.
The final claim of local businesses pulling their late-night advertisements are once again lacking statistical evidence. How many businesses pulled their advertisements is not explicitly stated. Therefore, it weakens the business manager's argument. If there is numerical data supporting that a high precentage of businesses are no longer advertising in the late-night spot, the argument to revert to prior coverage of local news and weather would be better supported.
In order to better support the business managers specific argument, additional evidence is needed to strenghten a rather weak argument. The lack of statistical or numerical evidence for each of his claims does not benefit his argument. If his argument was backed with statisical evidence in favor of reverting to local and weather late-night coverage, the business manager's argument would be strengthened significantly.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Sentence: Ratings for their newscast, viewer attraction, and support of small businesses would all prove beneficial in evauating this argument.
Error: evauating Suggestion: evaluating
Sentence: The business manager of a a television station has made the claim that rating and viewship of their late-night coverage has dimminished since dropping coverage of weather and local news.
Error: news Suggestion: No alternate word
Error: viewship Suggestion: No alternate word
Error: dimminished Suggestion: diminished
Sentence: The addition of numerical evident, such as Neilson Ratings would prove beneficial in strenghtening the argument to revert back to local news and weather during the stations late-night time slot.
Error: strenghtening Suggestion: strengthening
Sentence: Once again there is no statiscical evidence supporting this claim.
Error: statiscical Suggestion: statistical
Sentence: If there is numerical data supporting that a high precentage of businesses are no longer advertising in the late-night spot, the argument to revert to prior coverage of local news and weather would be better supported.
Error: precentage Suggestion: percentage
Sentence: In order to better support the business managers specific argument, additional evidence is needed to strenghten a rather weak argument.
Error: strenghten Suggestion: strengthen
Sentence: If his argument was backed with statisical evidence in favor of reverting to local and weather late-night coverage, the business manager's argument would be strengthened significantly.
Error: late-night Suggestion: late night
Error: statisical Suggestion: statistical
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argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- not OK
argument 3 -- not OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 359 350
No. of Characters: 1915 1500
No. of Different Words: 154 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.353 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.334 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.858 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 145 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 128 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 97 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 53 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.944 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.866 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.389 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.36 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.561 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.093 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 25, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: a
...s argument. The business manager of a a television station has made the claim t...
^^^
Line 3, column 25, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...s argument. The business manager of a a television station has made the claim...
^
Line 3, column 25, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'a' or 'a' is left.
Suggestion: a; a
...s argument. The business manager of a a television station has made the claim t...
^^^
Line 5, column 339, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Once” 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.
... has many complaints been 25/100 views? Once again there is no statiscical evidence ...
^^^^
Line 7, column 231, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'managers'' or 'manager's'?
Suggestion: managers'; manager's
...ted. Therefore, it weakens the business managers argument. If there is numerical data su...
^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 367, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'managers'' or 'manager's'?
Suggestion: managers'; manager's
...ather late-night coverage, the business managers argument would be strengthened signific...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, so, then, therefore, thus, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 55.5748502994 65% => OK
Nominalization: 27.0 16.3942115768 165% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1967.0 2260.96107784 87% => OK
No of words: 357.0 441.139720559 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.50980392157 5.12650576532 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34677393335 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90021361375 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 204.123752495 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.434173669468 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 612.9 705.55239521 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 59.0845677786 57.8364921388 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.526315789 119.503703932 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7894736842 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.26315789474 5.70786347227 40% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => 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: 0.219653355209 0.218282227539 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0906411475294 0.0743258471296 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0874147874721 0.0701772020484 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149586939451 0.128457276422 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0872193611416 0.0628817314937 139% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.68 12.5979740519 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 98.500998004 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.