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 recomendation which asserts that the magazine should curtail its emphasis on politics to focus more exclusively on economics and personal finance is flawed. In order to know how to make this argument reasonable, the magazine company should answer some questions first. In what follow, I will mention and explain which ones.
First, the author's argument is basing his thesis on a survey who questioned readers of general interst. The author is falling in the fallacy of believe that the sample size in which this survey is based is enough representative of the entire population of readers. It is necessary to answer before if the amount of people who have participated in the survey is sufficient. Moreover, this survey is too general. A good way to enhance its quality is to focus this study only on the readers of political magazines.
Second, the author has also to answer if the decrease insales of his magazines is due to a change in the preferences of the public, who now prefer economics and personal finance issues rather than the political ones. Perhaps, for instance, the readers of Newsbeat magazine with political news on their front are seeing that the content of the maganize is poor so they have just stopped to buy it. This means that it could be additional explanations to this poor-selling.
Third, and taking into account the last sentence of the argument, there is no guarrantee that a change of subject, that is to say, change poticial issues by economics, will produce an increase in sales. What if the new articules about economics and finance are not good enough as the competition's ones. The magazine must make a revision of the quality of its economics department. They have to be very competitive if they want to success in the market.
To conclude, the argument could be strenghthened if the author provides more information about the survey or even a better study. The argument could be further strenghthened if the author can make the maganize competitive in the market of economical and financial articles. However, with such amount of question to be answered, the argument is not sound enough to apply the recomendation.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Sentence: The recomendation which asserts that the magazine should curtail its emphasis on politics to focus more exclusively on economics and personal finance is flawed.
Error: recomendation Suggestion: recommendation
Sentence: First, the author's argument is basing his thesis on a survey who questioned readers of general interst.
Error: interst Suggestion: interest
Sentence: Second, the author has also to answer if the decrease insales of his magazines is due to a change in the preferences of the public, who now prefer economics and personal finance issues rather than the political ones.
Error: insales Suggestion: inhales
Sentence: Perhaps, for instance, the readers of Newsbeat magazine with political news on their front are seeing that the content of the maganize is poor so they have just stopped to buy it.
Error: news Suggestion: No alternate word
Error: maganize Suggestion: No alternate word
Sentence: This means that it could be additional explanations to this poor-selling.
Error: poor-selling Suggestion: poor selling
Sentence: Third, and taking into account the last sentence of the argument, there is no guarrantee that a change of subject, that is to say, change poticial issues by economics, will produce an increase in sales.
Error: poticial Suggestion: No alternate word
Error: guarrantee Suggestion: guarantee
Sentence: What if the new articules about economics and finance are not good enough as the competition's ones.
Error: articules Suggestion: articles
Sentence: To conclude, the argument could be strenghthened if the author provides more information about the survey or even a better study.
Error: strenghthened Suggestion: strengthened
Sentence: The argument could be further strenghthened if the author can make the maganize competitive in the market of economical and financial articles.
Error: strenghthened Suggestion: strengthened
Error: maganize Suggestion: No alternate word
Sentence: However, with such amount of question to be answered, the argument is not sound enough to apply the recomendation.
Error: recomendation Suggestion: recommendation
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 10 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 363 350
No. of Characters: 1758 1500
No. of Different Words: 180 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.365 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.843 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.735 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 138 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 97 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 66 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.167 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.382 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.31 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.558 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.067 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 12, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... and explain which ones. First, the authors argument is basing his thesis on a surv...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, moreover, second, so, then, third, for instance, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1806.0 2260.96107784 80% => OK
No of words: 363.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97520661157 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3649236973 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81048716742 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 204.123752495 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.498622589532 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 584.1 705.55239521 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.4861250358 57.8364921388 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.333333333 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1666666667 23.324526521 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.94444444444 5.70786347227 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.166047441804 0.218282227539 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0484968158725 0.0743258471296 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0733574813555 0.0701772020484 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0957740791751 0.128457276422 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0753328940552 0.0628817314937 120% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 14.3799401198 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 98.500998004 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => 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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