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.
The author of the above argument asserts that radio station kick would need to implement more call in advice programmes to increase its share of audience in it's listening area.He also provided example of another radio station named wcqp in rockville which implemented call in advice programmes and gained lot of listeners.Further, he also mentioned survey carried out nationwide which indicated that most of the people favoured call in advice programmes.Despite all providing all this information,it is verymuch vague and never serves clear purpose in supporting the conclusion.The author misses out heavily on some critical evidence that could act as stong pillar to the above assertion.
Firstly,the example provided on the radio station in rockville is a scenario that happened 2 years ago.may be call in advice program is implemented for first time by wcqp in rocksville and could have attracted many listeners as people find something new always interesting,also there may have been a added advantage of no competitors in that area for wcqp which left people with only solitary option of listening to the only one.
Second,author never mentioned the statistics of population in the example provided regarding rocksville.Usually,people of different ages find various programmes interesting.If the particular area like rocksville have higher composition of old or retired people which could have favoured it.But that could not assure same result for kick as it operates in a different area.The author also mentioned about the survey carried out nationwide and provided no information sources and authorities of it.it raises doubts on validation of the survey sample used in it.
Further,the author did not provide any information which throws light on various other factors like geographical area of the two localities or the facilities in both the towns.The kick radiostationmay operate in remote location where most of people couldnt have good access to radio signals which may help in losing interest, which may be in opposite with case in rocksville.
To conclude the argument, the author approached to conclusion with some superficial assumptions which didnot recieved adequate support from the given information as it needed profound analysis on various factors which need to ascertained.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 7 15
No. of Words: 369 350
No. of Characters: 1918 1500
No. of Different Words: 187 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.383 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.198 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.735 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 149 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 111 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 80 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 55 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 52.714 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 24.898 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.571 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.461 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.817 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.093 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, may, regarding, second, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 19.6327345309 31% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1958.0 2260.96107784 87% => OK
No of words: 354.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.53107344633 5.12650576532 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.24096378823 2.78398813304 116% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 204.123752495 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.539548022599 0.468620217663 115% => OK
syllable_count: 619.2 705.55239521 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 5.0 19.7664670659 25% => 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: 70.0 22.8473053892 306% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 154.161733254 57.8364921388 267% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 391.6 119.503703932 328% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 70.8 23.324526521 304% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 11.4 5.70786347227 200% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 21.0 5.25449101796 400% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.222394466994 0.218282227539 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118822246111 0.0743258471296 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0996218286758 0.0701772020484 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118822246111 0.128457276422 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0996218286758 0.0628817314937 158% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 40.0 14.3799401198 278% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -8.03 48.3550499002 -17% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 15.9 7.1628742515 222% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 31.8 12.197005988 261% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 15.98 12.5979740519 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 11.79 8.32208582834 142% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 98.500998004 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 56.0 12.3882235529 452% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 30.0 11.1389221557 269% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 16.0 11.9071856287 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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