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 rec

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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 station manager of KICK in Medway suggests that KICK should include call-in advice programs to gain a larger audience share in it‘s listening area. This conclusion is based on the assumption of recent success for WCQP and result of national wide survey which states that many radio listeners are interested in these types of programs. However, after more light is shed on the issue and more detailed facts are concerned, lack of answers through the argument leads me to question its validity.

First of all, just because WCQP’s has been success does that mean that every broadcaster can be successful while implementing call-advice programs? It might be possible that people living in Rockville are more enthusiastic in radio than in Medway. Maybe there is no space for entertainment rather than radio in Rockville. Blindly following someone because they were successful in some area is a bad option, if the above mentioned scenario is true, then the argument is weakened.

Secondly, how accurate is the survey? In other words, people who voted in the survey, just because they were interested do that mean they are willing to stop their work and listen to the advice program? It is possible that people who participated in the survey have an option which includes a program which they are not familiar with or they don’t like it. For the sake of answering they might have answered the advice program. If the above scenario holds merit, then the argument does not hold water.

Finally, is the scenario same since 2 years? Before 2 years audience in the Rockville has increased rapidly. But is the number increasing now too? It might be possible that because of the new program people were ardent about it and listened the radio. Maybe now people are monotonic about it and they are finding for something new. If the above scenario is true then the argument is not strengthened.

To conclude, the argument, stands as of now is considerably flawed. However, if the station manager provides answers to the above mentioned questions and offer more evidence then the argument can be possibly evaluated.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, thus, while, first of all, in other words

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1784.0 2260.96107784 79% => OK
No of words: 353.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05382436261 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33454660006 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59926399392 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.538243626062 0.468620217663 115% => OK
syllable_count: 556.2 705.55239521 79% => 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: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.2289073067 57.8364921388 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.2 119.503703932 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.65 23.324526521 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.4 5.70786347227 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.223843985748 0.218282227539 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0687948083899 0.0743258471296 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0696255336272 0.0701772020484 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.121179856662 0.128457276422 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0710724060528 0.0628817314937 113% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 14.3799401198 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.3550499002 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.71 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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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: 20 15
No. of Words: 354 350
No. of Characters: 1710 1500
No. of Different Words: 180 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.338 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.831 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.492 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 121 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 91 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 64 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 30 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.7 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.05 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.297 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.52 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.076 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5