"Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news. During this period, most of the complaints received from viewers were concerned with our station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, local businesses that used to advertise during our late-night news program have canceled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to our news programs and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should expand our coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The argument claims that the Late Night Program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news. It claims that during this time many complaints received where about the program's coverage of weather and local news. Also local businesses have cancelled their advertising contracts.
The station has decreased the time of weather and local news for over a year now, and for how long have they been receiving these complaints and for how long have the business been cancelling the contracts. The news station might have not been appealing enough to the audience, the content delivered could have been poor and there is also a possibility of a much better show being telecasted at the same time that was not present before and might have coincided with the system changing the alloted times. This might have shifted the audience to the new show and the business to advertise in the new show. the few loyal viewers might have felt that if the old schedule of programs in the station was followed it would attract more viewers and could have complained.
Though the station received many complaints regarding the reduced amount of time given to weather and local news has the viewership of the program reduced drastically? The argument does not talk about how many complaints were received and if it was lesser or more than the complaints received before the change in the time being devoted to weather and local news. The complaints could have been made because it was the rainy season and everyone wanted to know the weather to stay updated and the program reducing the time might not have gone down well with the people. If the viewership has decreased because of the claim made in the argument then the idea of increasing the time for weather and local news strengthens the argument that viewership will increase because only when programs show people what they want, will they be willing to watch it.
Local local businesses have cancelled their advertising contracts with the station but the reason for them to have cancelled the contracts could have been because they found better advertising ideas, than the show. It could also be because their contracts were coming to an end and the businesses had no intentions of spending money on advertising and so were cancelling the contracts. The evidence as to why the businesses were canceling the contracts is very important. If it is because of reduced viewership then them cancelling the contracts makes sense and strengthens the argument because if not many people are watching the show, they will not get good publicity which in turn might decrease their profit. However if decreased viewership is not the reason then restoring the time devoted to weather and local news is not a good idea and weakens the argument.
So the correctness of the argument depends on a lot of these evidences and if the evidence of better shows and decreased viewership is true then the argument to increase the time devoted to weather and local news strengthens though other ways to increase viewership can also be implemented. However if these evidences are not true then the argument is weakened.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
The argument claims that the Late Night ...
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Suggestion: programs'; program's
...any complaints received where about the programs coverage of weather and local news. Als...
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Suggestion: Also,
...ams coverage of weather and local news. Also local businesses have cancelled their a...
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...celled their advertising contracts. The station has decreased the time of we...
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Suggestion: The
... business to advertise in the new show. the few loyal viewers might have felt that ...
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... viewers and could have complained. Though the station received many complai...
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...t, will they be willing to watch it. Local local businesses have cancelled th...
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Suggestion: Local
...ey be willing to watch it. Local local businesses have cancelled their adverti...
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...r advertising contracts with the station but the reason for them to have cancelle...
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Suggestion: However,
...ch in turn might decrease their profit. However if decreased viewership is not the reas...
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... good idea and weakens the argument. So the correctness of the argument depen...
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Suggestion: However,
...ase viewership can also be implemented. However if these evidences are not true then th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, regarding, so, then, well, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 14.8657303371 175% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 58.6224719101 84% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2645.0 2235.4752809 118% => OK
No of words: 537.0 442.535393258 121% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92551210428 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81386128306 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50517533182 2.79657885939 90% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 215.323595506 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.357541899441 0.4932671777 72% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 804.6 704.065955056 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.38483146067 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 29.0 23.0359550562 126% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 70.6133621461 60.3974514979 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 146.944444444 118.986275619 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.8333333333 23.4991977007 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.11111111111 5.21951772744 60% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 7.80617977528 154% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.306012435069 0.243740707755 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.134172133334 0.0831039109588 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.134987129648 0.0758088955206 178% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.224196056579 0.150359130593 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.147011379757 0.0667264976115 220% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 14.1392134831 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.91 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.19 8.38706741573 86% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 100.480337079 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.2143820225 121% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => 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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