Televison station complaints received due to coverage of weather and local news
In order to attract more viewers and to prevent loss of revenue from advertising, the manager of a television station reports that the time devoted to weather and local news should be restored. The argument sound to be convincing at the first glance, but on close scrutiny seems to be based on unwarranted assumptions.
Firstly, the manager mentioned that more time was allotted to national news rather than weather and local news. However, he did not give any information on the tim i.e. whether it is for 2hours or 20 minutes. Also, he stated that during this complaints were received from their viewers on the weather and local news. He did not provide any data on the number of people who lodges complaints and the reason for which they gave complaints.
Next, he made assumption that the complaints were due to reduced coverage of local and weather news. Howeve it could be the case that the people were not satisfied with the content provided by the station. Maybe the local news covered a scandalous story about the politician whom they admired the most. Therefore, in order to validate this assumption the author should have given data on the reason for the complaints from the people.
Moreover the author stated that local business have terminated their contract because of the regular complaint to the station from the people but the relation between the company and the station might not be in good condition form long back. Also the advertising agency might have found some other television station which has highest number of viewers. Because of the reduced popularity of this station among the audience, the agency have chosen some other company for contract.
Finally,the author made another fallacious assumption that by expanding the coverage time for local and weather news they could get back the viewers. If the reason for the loss of viewers is due to the content provided by the station there is no chance that reverting back to original coverage brings back the lost viewers.
To summarise, the argument would have been more accurate if the author has provided the data on the number of complaints received to the station and the prime reason for the viewers to complain on either local or weather news.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 378 350
No. of Characters: 1820 1500
No. of Different Words: 164 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.409 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.815 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.365 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 133 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 102 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 54 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 30 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.625 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.793 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.625 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.37 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.65 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.143 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 260, Rule ID: CLOSE_SCRUTINY[1]
Message: Use simply 'scrutiny'.
Suggestion: scrutiny
... convincing at the first glance, but on close scrutiny seems to be based on unwarranted assump...
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Line 5, column 238, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...20 minutes. Also, he stated that during this complaints were received from their vie...
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Line 5, column 439, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... reason for which they gave complaints. Next, he made assumption that the compla...
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Line 9, column 83, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ts were due to reduced coverage of local and weather news. Howeve it could be the...
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Line 13, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Moreover,
...r the complaints from the people. Moreover the author stated that local business h...
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Line 13, column 111, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ontract because of the regular complaint to the station from the people but the r...
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Line 13, column 244, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...ot be in good condition form long back. Also the advertising agency might have found...
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Line 13, column 325, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'has the highest'.
Suggestion: has the highest
...und some other television station which has highest number of viewers. Because of the reduc...
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Line 17, column 8, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , the
...ther company for contract. Finally,the author made another fallacious assumpti...
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Line 17, column 234, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e to the content provided by the station there is no chance that reverting back t...
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Line 17, column 326, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... coverage brings back the lost viewers. To summarise, the argument would have b...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, moreover, so, therefore
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 : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1876.0 2260.96107784 83% => OK
No of words: 377.0 441.139720559 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97612732095 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4064143971 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44892956491 2.78398813304 88% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.442970822281 0.468620217663 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 574.2 705.55239521 81% => OK
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: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.8690803895 57.8364921388 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.25 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5625 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.8125 5.70786347227 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 5.25449101796 209% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.386778916123 0.218282227539 177% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.135248820435 0.0743258471296 182% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.11338868987 0.0701772020484 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.212662379279 0.128457276422 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0680082925728 0.0628817314937 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.3799401198 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.9 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 98.500998004 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => 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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