Prompt: "The following is a memorandum from the business manager of a television station. 'Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news. During this period, most of the complaints received from viewers were concerned with our station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, local businesses that used to advertise during our late-night news program have canceled 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 our coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs.'
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.”
The manager makes a claim that by restoring more time devoted to weather and local news and less to national news, the television station will be able to attract more viewers to watch their program and prevent losing any more advertising revenues. this is due to the fact that people are complaining about how the station is providing coverage for weather and local news. while it is important for a television station to address the concerns of its viewers, the claim that the manager makes is flawed and unconvincing.
The manager is assuming that the television program has been losing viewers due to the fact that the program has been spending less time on weather and local news. however, the manager never mentions that he has been losing viewers in the first place. Without mentioning this concern, there is not a good reason to devote more time on weather and local news.
In addition, the manager is also assuming that the potential viewers that he wants to attract are interested in weather and local news. while the current viewers that are complaining seem to be more interested in watching the weather and local news, the future viewers may be more interested knowing the national news. it is also possible that the potential viewers are not interested in neither the weather and local news nor the national news. The viewers may be more interested in the sports news. One viewer may want to know they outcome of the game the new York Yankees played that night and where they stand compared to the rest of the teams in Major League Baseball. therefore, devoting more time to weather and local news may not guarantee an increase in viewers and preventing loss of revenues because not every viewer will be interested in that aspect of the news program.
Finally, the manager is assuming that the television station is losing advertising revenues due to them broadcasting less on weather and local news. however, there is no mention that there is a direct correlation between advertising contract with a local business and the broadcast of the weather and local news. there could be an independent reason why the local businesses have decided to cancel their advertising contracts with the television station such as seeing a better deal with another television station. therefore, the manager cannot claim that broadcasting more weather and local news will prevent advertising revenues loss.
In order for the manager to strengthen his argument, he will need to provide some more convincing evidence. he needs should whether or not this issue is causing the station to lose viewers. he should also provide data from surveys staying which news the viewers are most interested in. These evidence will help the manager strengthen his claim.
In conclusion, the manager's argument that devoting more time in broadcasting weather and local news will help attract more viewers and prevent losing advertising revenues is flawed and unconvincing. while it is important for any television program to address the complaints of viewers, it may be not be essential when it deals with attracting more viewers to the program and generating more revenue.
| Post date | Users | Rates | Link to Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-01 | mohamadre3a | 55 | view |
| 2019-07-29 | Theshani | 69 | view |
| 2019-07-10 | Amrutha S | 82 | view |
| 2019-02-18 | fenil shah | 43 | view |
- A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college. 50
- A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college. 50
- Prompt: "The following is a memorandum from the business manager of a television station. 'Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news. During this period, m 43
Comments
Essay evaluation report
samples:
https://www.testbig.com/gmatgre-argument-task-essays/over-past-year-our…
----------------------------
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 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: 524 350
No. of Characters: 2587 1500
No. of Different Words: 181 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.784 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.937 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.53 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 186 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 161 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 81 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 52 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 43.667 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 29.187 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.486 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.486 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.268 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 249, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: This
...t losing any more advertising revenues. this is due to the fact that people are comp...
^^^^
Line 1, column 306, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e fact that people are complaining about how the station is providing coverage fo...
^^
Line 1, column 374, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: While
...ng coverage for weather and local news. while it is important for a television statio...
^^^^^
Line 2, column 164, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: However
...ng less time on weather and local news. however, the manager never mentions that he has...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 137, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: While
...e interested in weather and local news. while the current viewers that are complainin...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 320, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
...e interested knowing the national news. it is also possible that the potential vie...
^^
Line 3, column 489, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'sports'' or 'sport's'?
Suggestion: sports'; sport's
...e viewers may be more interested in the sports news. One viewer may want to know they ...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 675, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Therefore
... of the teams in Major League Baseball. therefore, devoting more time to weather and loca...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 150, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: However
...casting less on weather and local news. however, there is no mention that there is a di...
^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 314, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: There
...roadcast of the weather and local news. there could be an independent reason why the ...
^^^^^
Line 4, column 517, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Therefore
...r deal with another television station. therefore, the manager cannot claim that broadcas...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 109, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: He
... provide some more convincing evidence. he needs should whether or not this issue ...
^^
Line 5, column 125, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...re convincing evidence. he needs should whether or not this issue is causing the station to lo...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 191, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: He
...is causing the station to lose viewers. he should also provide data from surveys s...
^^
Line 6, column 20, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'managers'' or 'manager's'?
Suggestion: managers'; manager's
...engthen his claim. In conclusion, the managers argument that devoting more time in bro...
^^^^^^^^
Line 6, column 200, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: While
...ng revenues is flawed and unconvincing. while it is important for any television prog...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, may, so, then, therefore, while, in addition, in conclusion, such as, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.6327345309 158% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 11.1786427146 206% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 28.8173652695 132% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2631.0 2260.96107784 116% => OK
No of words: 524.0 441.139720559 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02099236641 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7844588288 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57594498024 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 204.123752495 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.364503816794 0.468620217663 78% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 806.4 705.55239521 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.5739782173 57.8364921388 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.590909091 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8181818182 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.40909090909 5.70786347227 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 16.0 5.25449101796 305% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.345789326101 0.218282227539 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.140539165009 0.0743258471296 189% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0886157032511 0.0701772020484 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.217150071139 0.128457276422 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0774155021161 0.0628817314937 123% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.3799401198 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.13 8.32208582834 86% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 98.500998004 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
---------------------
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.