"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 author insists that the television station has to reverse its news format to previous one. It might seem resonable opinion but there are three evidences that should be discussed to support this claim.
First, the author assumes that number of complaints they recieve necessarily means their viewers are not satisfied as before. However, since the viewers who are satisfied with the news material wouldn't call and send message to complain, there should be a survey to see what overall opinions of the viewers are. According to the result of this survey, the author's claim could be strengthen or weaken.
Second, we have to check if there are changes in the number of veiwers of the news. Since these days, people's lifestyles have changed as people started to check news through internet, there could be changes in the number of people watching the show not necessarily due to its changes of news format. If it is true, reversing the format to previous wouldn't be able to attract businesses again.
Third, we have to check if there aren't any other news program that covers similar materials before this news starts. If there are new news stations that covers a similar news right before the news start, changing the broadcasting time could be better than changing its format to previous one or changing news format into reporting what other news don't would have more postive effects.
In conclusion, to evaluate this claim, we have to see what majority of the viewers thinks about the news, if there isn't any change in the number of viewers, and there aren't any competitiors.
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Essay evaluation report
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 11 15
No. of Words: 274 350
No. of Characters: 1283 1500
No. of Different Words: 135 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.069 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.682 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.353 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 94 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 63 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 35 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 19 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.909 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.255 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.727 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.418 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.418 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.164 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 194, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
...ho are satisfied with the news material wouldnt call and send message to complain, ther...
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Line 3, column 348, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
... true, reversing the format to previous wouldnt be able to attract businesses again. ...
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Line 4, column 34, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: aren't
...ain. Third, we have to check if there arent any other news program that covers simi...
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Line 4, column 348, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...s format into reporting what other news dont would have more postive effects. In co...
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Line 5, column 116, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...viewers thinks about the news, if there isnt any change in the number of viewers, an...
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Line 5, column 168, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: aren't
...nge in the number of viewers, and there arent any competitiors.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, second, so, then, third, as to, in conclusion, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 55.5748502994 67% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 16.3942115768 6% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1316.0 2260.96107784 58% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 268.0 441.139720559 61% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.91044776119 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04607285448 4.56307096286 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.36713077088 2.78398813304 85% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 204.123752495 68% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.518656716418 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 395.1 705.55239521 56% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 19.7664670659 56% => 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: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.9891431389 57.8364921388 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.636363636 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3636363636 23.324526521 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.45454545455 5.70786347227 131% => OK
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 : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.215700547742 0.218282227539 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0846775294299 0.0743258471296 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0777222663844 0.0701772020484 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116944224799 0.128457276422 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.086140499981 0.0628817314937 137% => 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: 11.49 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 98.500998004 60% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => 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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