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 suggesss that KICK in Medway should include more call-in advice programs in order to gain a larger audience in the listening area. He has come to this conclusion based audience increases found at WCQP’s ratio station in Rockville, who increased the number of call-in advice programs. However, before the strength of the author’s recommendation can be properly evaluated, three questions must be answered.
First of all, what is the availanility of mental health workers in Rockville compared to Medway? Perhaps Rockville has only have a few psychologists working in the area that are unwilling to expand their list of clients while citizens of Medway have no trouble finding a psychologist, as there are many employed in the area. That being said, many citizens in Rockville have found comfort in the call-in advice program at WCQP, as it is their only method of obtaining an outsider’s perspective on personal issues. If the above is true, then the author’s recommendation to include more call-in advice programs at Medway would be ineffective in gaining a lager audience.
Second of all, what are citizens quality of mental health in Rockville compared to Medway? Perhaps Rockville is a low socio-economic status area where many struggle with drug addiction or are burdened with debt. Alternatively, Medway is a high socio-economic area where everyone has sufficient income, healthy social relationships, and effective resources. If this scenario has merit, then it is likely that people at Rockville have poorer mental health than those in Medway; thus, it is unlikely that Medway citizens will find as much value in call-in advice programs than those in Rockville.
Lastly, is it possible that social acceptance of publicizing personal issues is more advanced in Rockville than Medway? Perhaps Rockville people are far more progressive in the sense that they are more willing to openly disclosing information of their personal life on broadcasts. On the contrary, it is possible that people in Medway still hold the belief that it is taboo to admit they are struggling with mental health issues. If the above is true, then the author’s recommendation to increase in-call advice programs would not lead to a larger audience, as people of Medway are uncomfortable with disclosing information about their personal issues.
In conclusion, the argument, as it stands now, is considerably flawed due to its reliance on several unwarranted assumptions. If the author is able to answer the three questions and offer more evidence, then it will be possible to fully evaluated the viability of his proposed recommendation to increase the number of in-call advice programs at KICK radio station.
Comments
e-rater score 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: 17 15
No. of Words: 432 350
No. of Characters: 2224 1500
No. of Different Words: 193 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.559 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.148 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.861 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 182 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 124 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 97 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 53 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.412 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.444 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.647 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.361 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.361 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.098 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 125, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'had'.
Suggestion: had
...d to Medway? Perhaps Rockville has only have a few psychologists working in the area...
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Line 3, column 151, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun struggle seems to be countable; consider using: 'many struggles'.
Suggestion: many struggles
... a low socio-economic status area where many struggle with drug addiction or are burdened wit...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, lastly, second, so, still, then, thus, while, in conclusion, first of all, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 70.0 55.5748502994 126% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2284.0 2260.96107784 101% => OK
No of words: 432.0 441.139720559 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.28703703704 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55901411391 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9603540308 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.465277777778 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 714.6 705.55239521 101% => 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: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 2.70958083832 332% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.645389778 57.8364921388 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.352941176 119.503703932 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4117647059 23.324526521 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.47058823529 5.70786347227 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => 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: 0.227999767331 0.218282227539 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0775435282594 0.0743258471296 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0638545667068 0.0701772020484 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140473545169 0.128457276422 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0510456124458 0.0628817314937 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 14.3799401198 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.3550499002 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.7 12.5979740519 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 98.500998004 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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