Two years ago, radio station WCQP in Rockville decided to increase the number of call-in advice programs that it broadcast; since that time, its share of the radio audience in the Rockville listening area has increased significantly. Given WCQP's recent success with call-in advice programming, and citing a nationwide survey indicating that many radio listeners are quite interested in such programs, the station manager of KICK in Medway recommends that KICK include more call-in advice programs in an attempt to gain a larger audience share in its listening area.
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.
In the passage, the station manager of KICK argues that the station should contain more call-in advice broadcasts in order to increase the number of listeners. This is based on the premise that this method also applied by WCQP radio station and assisted it to enlarge its listening area. Also, the manager cites a survey which is conducted in national level and demonstrates that many radio listeners are interested in call-in advice programs. However, on deeper analysis, it is apparent that certain aspects have not been considered, leading to a number of mistaken assumptions and logical flaws.
First of all, the manager claims that the WCQP radio station which implemented these proposed programs, it achieved to increase its listeners. This is merely an assumption made without much solid ground. For example, it is possible this observed increase is the result of other factors like live radio broadcast from famous singers. Hence, the argument would have been more convincing if it explicity stated that WCQP did not make any other improvement to its program and thus its success could be attributed to call-in advice programs.
Moreover, the manager notes that a nationwide survey depicts an increased interest of listeners about these proposed programs This again is weak and unsupported as it does not mention what was the attitude of people in Rockville about these programs. If the argument had provided evidence that the listeners in Rockville prefer indeed these broadcasts then it would have been a lot more convincing to the reader.
In conclusion, the manager’s argument is unpersuasive as it stands. To bolster it further, the manager must provide more concrete evidence, perhaps by way of detailed survey on the citizens of Rockville. Finally, to better evaluate the argument, it would be necessary to know more information about the attitude of the citizens in Rockville at the nationwide survey and if they expressed interest for in-call advice programs.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 3 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 318 350
No. of Characters: 1628 1500
No. of Different Words: 165 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.223 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.119 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.602 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 133 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 107 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 71 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 35 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.462 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.308 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.769 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.357 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.574 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.046 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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In the passage, the station manager of K...
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...istaken assumptions and logical flaws. First of all, the manager claims that th...
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...attributed to call-in advice programs. Moreover, the manager notes that a natio...
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Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ople in Rockville about these programs. If the argument had provided evidence that...
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... a lot more convincing to the reader. In conclusion, the manager’s argument is...
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...d interest for in-call advice programs.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, hence, however, if, moreover, so, then, thus, for example, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1666.0 2260.96107784 74% => OK
No of words: 318.0 441.139720559 72% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23899371069 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22286093782 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69605997142 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 204.123752495 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.522012578616 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 524.7 705.55239521 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 51.1678985904 57.8364921388 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.153846154 119.503703932 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4615384615 23.324526521 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.69230769231 5.70786347227 152% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.27376565613 0.218282227539 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0942052709677 0.0743258471296 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0709101721124 0.0701772020484 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164565491628 0.128457276422 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0837025068156 0.0628817314937 133% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.3550499002 80% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.5979740519 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.2 8.32208582834 111% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 98.500998004 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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