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 above presented argument, the station manager of the KICK radio station in the Meadway recommended the inclusion of more call-in advice programs in order to gain larger audience share in its listening area. The author claims so inspired from the nationwide survey which indicated that significant number of people showed interests in such type of programs. Also, the recent success of another radio station: WCQP in Rockville helped to substantiate his/her proclivity towards the introduction of call-in advice programs in his radio station. Here, in the argument, the premises are well-presented and well-supported, but not well reasoned: some questions would need to be answered in order to decide the efficacy of proposal presented above.
The author implies that the recent two year success of WQCP radio station in Rockville could also reflect in KICK radio station in Meadway. The author, however, doesn’t take account of statistical data of population age group and actual number of increase in listeners in Rockville. Do the both cities account for similar population age group who are interested in such type of programs? Perhaps, Rockville may have younger group of listeners, who are highly interested towards such types of programs. On the flip side, Meadway is likely to have majority of older population, who loves to listen religious programs and news more than such types of programs. If so, the number of shares of listeners could actually decrease in that area. To add, do the increase in number of listeners in that area account to significant proportion of the population? It is probable that only few proportion of the Rockville have increased in reference to whole population. If so, then hastily implementing the proposal may result fiasco; if there is significant increase in the population, however, then number of share of radio listeners could increase.
The authors assumptions of the success in increase in number of listeners largely hinge upon the survey carried out, which resulted in increase in interests of people in call-in advice types of programs. Rather than hastily attributing the survey results to the implementation of proposal, it would be watch to glean out the information of survey. What is the number of people surveyed? What age-group of people is surveyed? How many number of people addressed in the favour of such programs and how many reported against it? Probably, only few populations were surveyed and considerable population was on the favour of argument, which leads to conclusion as presented by the station manager. It is most likely that only young people were surveyed and some age-groups such as of women, children and older population is missing. If this is the case, the result of proposed argument is likely to be far form good. Clear schematic diagram of above questions would help to evaluate the argument and would help to draw the cogent conclusion.
Finally, the station manager only focuses on the type of programs that is being broadcasted in the KICK radio station; on contrary, there may be other problems that could have resulted in the decrease in number of listeners. Are there any other drawbacks of the broadcasting pattern of radio station? It is likely that other programs are not efficacious as they should be. Probably, the networking and broadcasting is not as smooth as they should be which may have resulted in the decline of the numbers of radio listeners.
In the conclusion, the author fails to develop the cogent case in establishing the strong logical conclusion between proposed methods and its likely conclusion. Some of the question would need to be answered in order to determine the efficacy of the argument.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 28 15
No. of Words: 607 350
No. of Characters: 3043 1500
No. of Different Words: 228 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.964 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.013 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.725 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 237 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 182 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 129 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 73 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.679 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.607 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.429 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.304 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.487 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.122 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 881, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun proportion seems to be countable; consider using: 'few proportions'.
Suggestion: few proportions
...he population? It is probable that only few proportion of the Rockville have increased in refe...
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Line 5, column 430, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun number seems to be countable; consider using: 'many numbers'.
Suggestion: many numbers
...at age-group of people is surveyed? How many number of people addressed in the favour of su...
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Line 9, column 162, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: Some
...osed methods and its likely conclusion. Some of the question would need to be answered in o...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, however, if, may, so, then, well, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 113.0 55.5748502994 203% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 32.0 16.3942115768 195% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3126.0 2260.96107784 138% => OK
No of words: 605.0 441.139720559 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16694214876 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.95951083803 4.56307096286 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81894805511 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 247.0 204.123752495 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.40826446281 0.468620217663 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 975.6 705.55239521 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 19.7664670659 142% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.2089853045 57.8364921388 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.642857143 119.503703932 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6071428571 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.53571428571 5.70786347227 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 8.20758483034 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.290237470073 0.218282227539 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0799547927343 0.0743258471296 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0804337116831 0.0701772020484 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151869035935 0.128457276422 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0986629064254 0.0628817314937 157% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.3799401198 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 136.0 98.500998004 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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