Since those issues of Newsbeat magazine that featured political news on their front cover were the poorest-selling issues over the past three years, the publisher of Newsbeat has recommended that the magazine curtail its emphasis on politics to focus more exclusively on economics and personal finance. She points to a recent survey of readers of general interest magazines that indicates greater reader interest in economic issues than in political ones. Newsbeat's editor, however, opposes the proposed shift in editorial policy, pointing out that very few magazines offer extensive political coverage anymore.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The following issue happened with publisher of Newsbeat magazine. Author made conclusion that, issue of Newsbeat magazine featured political news on front cover were poorest selling and it's emphasis on politics to focus more exclusively on economics and personal finance. There are several question need to be asked by author before making any conclusion.
Firstly, author state that since issues of Newsbeat magazine that featured political news on front cover were poorest sale. The emphasis to be changed to more focus on economics and personal finance. Author need to ask question, what are situation happened in last three years? The author need to data of sales, so that he compares the sales of last three year from previous year. Suppose if the sales reduced from 1000 to 800, its not poorest sales.
Secondly, author state that survey of readers of general interest magazine that indicates greater reader interest in economic issues than in political ones. Author need ask question, how survey reliable? In addition to this, author mention that, readers of general interest magazine shows more interest in economical issues. It's not necessarily with Newsbeat magazine reader, they have their different view. Author need to confirm that, those who are surveyed are business person. It possibility that, those are business person and are more interested in economical news.
Thirdly, author put point that considering all aspect, Newsbeat editor opposes the proposed shift in editorial policy, pointing out that few magazines offer extensive political coverage any more. Author need to ask question that, whether Newsbeat editor really gathered information so that they are more extensive? It is possibility that they have not survey of all magazine but considering only few magazine company and on that basis they concluded that they are one of among those who put extensive political coverage.
To sum up with all, author need to ask several question before making any conclusion. There are several question which need to be answered then only argument become strengthen.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 328 350
No. of Characters: 1715 1500
No. of Different Words: 149 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.256 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.229 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.437 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 137 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 105 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 81 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.263 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.195 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.526 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.363 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.567 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.123 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 162, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'were the poorest'.
Suggestion: were the poorest
... featured political news on front cover were poorest selling and its emphasis on politics to...
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Line 3, column 106, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'were the poorest'.
Suggestion: were the poorest
... featured political news on front cover were poorest sale. The emphasis to be changed to mor...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 429, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
... if the sales reduced from 1000 to 800, its not poorest sales. Secondly, author ...
^^^
Line 3, column 433, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'not the poorest'.
Suggestion: not the poorest
...the sales reduced from 1000 to 800, its not poorest sales. Secondly, author state that s...
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Line 5, column 307, Rule ID: ECONOMICAL_ECONOMIC[1]
Message: Did you mean 'economic' (=connected with economy)?
Suggestion: economic
...nterest magazine shows more interest in economical issues. Its not necessarily with Newsbe...
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Line 5, column 326, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: It's; It is
...ows more interest in economical issues. Its not necessarily with Newsbeat magazine ...
^^^
Line 7, column 353, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'surveyed'.
Suggestion: surveyed
...e? It is possibility that they have not survey of all magazine but considering only fe...
^^^^^^
Line 9, column 40, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun question seems to be countable; consider using: 'several questions'.
Suggestion: several questions
... To sum up with all, author need to ask several question before making any conclusion. There are...
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Line 9, column 97, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun question seems to be countable; consider using: 'several questions'.
Suggestion: several questions
...before making any conclusion. There are several question which need to be answered then only arg...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, really, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, in addition, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1765.0 2260.96107784 78% => OK
No of words: 328.0 441.139720559 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.38109756098 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49314758389 2.78398813304 90% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 204.123752495 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.481707317073 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 572.4 705.55239521 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 47.1459688868 57.8364921388 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.8947368421 119.503703932 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2631578947 23.324526521 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.21052631579 5.70786347227 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.67664670659 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.351289644219 0.218282227539 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.120716127317 0.0743258471296 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.143428487198 0.0701772020484 204% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.217711565591 0.128457276422 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.153839884562 0.0628817314937 245% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.63 12.5979740519 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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