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 s

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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.

As per given argument, 2 years ago call-in-advice programs increased number of listeners for WCQP radio, so it is recommended to increase number of advice programs in KICK radio in medway. This argument is based on many unstated assumptions, which if false can raise many questions on conclusion.

First assumption is both cities Rockville and Medway audience is similar interests. But two cities can be different. One might be rural area and other urban, or their might other significent differences in both cities, and thus radio audience choices can be different. May be Rockville people like to listen more advice programs, but medway people might like to listen music most of the time. If this is case then, KICK won't gain more listeners, by switching to advice programs. Therefore, before switching to advice programs, what majority of medway audience like to listen, this question need to be answered.

Next assumption is situation doesn't change from last two years. As WCQP radio increased call-in-advice programs two years back and the number of listeners increased, it doesn't mean now situation is the same and same change will now work for KICK. There is a possibility that two years back some special event such as elections were going on and more call-in-advice programs were needed. If this was the case, now KICK won't gain audience in the absence of any special event. Thus, author need to answer questions, whether situations two years back for WCQP are the same situations for KICK now.

Another question is how WCQP is doing right now, as change was two years back, are they experiencing same increase in audience now also.

Thus, before reaching on to conclusion, author need to answer question such as, how both cities audiences' interests are same, and are the situations two years ago and now are same.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, so, then, therefore, thus, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 13.6137724551 15% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 28.8173652695 31% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 55.5748502994 63% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1534.0 2260.96107784 68% => OK
No of words: 304.0 441.139720559 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04605263158 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17559525986 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66800448321 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 204.123752495 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.493421052632 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 459.9 705.55239521 65% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Interrogative: 2.0 0.471057884232 425% => OK
Article: 0.0 8.76447105788 0% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.7320121752 57.8364921388 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.266666667 119.503703932 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2666666667 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.06666666667 5.70786347227 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.313846274401 0.218282227539 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105570606432 0.0743258471296 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.11163056934 0.0701772020484 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177960140244 0.128457276422 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0878065649221 0.0628817314937 140% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.01 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.69 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 98.500998004 60% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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