"The following is taken from a memo from the advertising director of the Super Screen Movie Production Company:
"According to a recent report from our marketing department, during the past year, fewer people attended Super Screen-produced movies than in any other year. And yet the percentage of positive reviews by movie reviewers about specific Super Screen movies actually increased during the past year. Clearly, the contents of these reviews are not reaching enough of our prospective viewers. Thus, the problem lies not with the quality of our movies but with the public's lack of awareness that movies of good quality are available. Super Screen should therefore allocate a greater share of its budget next year to reaching the public through advertising."" -
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be addressed in order to decide whether the conclusion and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to the questions would help to evaluate the conclusion.
The argument states that attendance of Super Screen-produced movies has decreased in the past year and tries to describe increased advertising as a potential solution. The author makes quite a few errors as a result of which his argument has quite a few holes, not least of which may be that his reasoning about improved reviews of Super Screen-produced movies may be fallacious. In addition, there are a number of faulty assumptions he makes, affecting the effect of his argument.
Firstly, the author assumes that in case of the marketing department's report about fewer attendance at Super S...
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Sentence: In any case, we cannot saay with certainty that the report by the marketing department correctly describes that attendance at Super Screen-produced movies has truly gone down throughout the country and not just at a few aberrant locations.
Error: saay Suggestion: say
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3 reasons are enough.
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