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.
While it may seem completely direct that the WCQP introduced call in advice program tends to attract more radio audiences in Rockville. Although the premise shows a direct relation and henc will be recommended to other stations, it is not cogent that how does this only factor stand alone in the increase of audience. Moreover, the premise is rife with holes and unstated assumptions that make me question the sanity of the derived conclusion by WCQP.
It is clear that the call-in advice programs increased the audience, whereas this is just one of the multiple reasons why it increased. Mainly the author has considered Rockville the representative of other parts of the world. Clearly it is not the actual case. The author here fails to answer two important questions. One being, Are the shows using call-in program the same in the last two years? And what are the exact number of shows using call in program? This will help use evaluate whether it is the show that people like. Nevertheless, we must question exact participation % of people against the population of Rockville.
Another flaw being, the author fails to give details about the audience that takes part in the call-in program. Like for say, what age group do most of the public belongs, which age group shows highest involvement and why? These questions will help new stations like KICK to adapt to call in programs and they will know what audience segment to cater to. For example, if Rockville has more of teenagers participating and Medway has more of aged people in town then call-in programs might not come handy aged people are less of tech- savvy and some might not consider calling the station for entertainment pleasures.
The station manager at Medway must take a survey asking all above questions along with how do people like the current facilities and will they adapt a new one? Will they be supportive as a nationwide survey might not be true for Medway people? there might be the one who voted against in these kind of programs in majority in Medway. This might affect KICK and its success.
The above-mentioned flaws, questions and assumptions need to be answered and taken in consideration by all who use this recommendation and intend to use call-in programs at their stations.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 9 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 8 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 385 350
No. of Characters: 1842 1500
No. of Different Words: 194 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.43 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.784 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.549 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 119 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 89 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 58 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 34 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.263 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.441 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.316 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.301 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.518 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.078 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “While” 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.
While it may seem completely direct that the ...
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Line 1, column 278, Rule ID: STAND_ALONE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'standalone'?
Suggestion: standalone
...t cogent that how does this only factor stand alone in the increase of audience. Moreover, ...
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Line 5, column 189, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'shows the highest'.
Suggestion: shows the highest
... of the public belongs, which age group shows highest involvement and why? These questions wi...
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Line 7, column 245, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: There
...ey might not be true for Medway people? there might be the one who voted against in t...
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Line 7, column 289, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this kind' or 'these kinds'?
Suggestion: this kind; these kinds
...e might be the one who voted against in these kind of programs in majority in Medway. This...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, then, whereas, while, for example, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1890.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 385.0 441.139720559 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.90909090909 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4296068528 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61515890187 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522077922078 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 574.2 705.55239521 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 54.2125446737 57.8364921388 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.5 119.503703932 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.25 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.95 5.70786347227 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.177208308501 0.218282227539 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0544069170945 0.0743258471296 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0522023425314 0.0701772020484 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0939651606672 0.128457276422 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0533368912335 0.0628817314937 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 14.3799401198 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.3550499002 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 98.500998004 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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