The topic is about how to prevent the spread of the canes toads in Australia. The lecturer respectively refutes the three methods presented in the reading passage. She says all the methods will be either unsuccessful or ecologically harmful.
First, the lecturer argues that a national fence will not stop the cane toads because the young toads and toad eggs exist in the river stream. The fence in the water will somehow let the stream carrying the young toads and toad eggs pass to the other side where they will establish further generation. However, in the reading passage, there is an example of the national fence preventing the rabbit successfully.
Second, the lecturer contends the idea mentioned in the reading passage that volunteers could help to destroy the toads by saying that untrained volunteers are likely to destroy the native frog. These two species are both restricted to the water and hard to tell the difference when they are young.
Lastly, according to the lecturer, the disease-causing virus will damage the eco-system in Central and South America as the result of the transportation of infected reptiles and amphibian species to those areas. The eco-system of those areas will suffer because the cane toads are the native species there. Nonetheless, the reading passage indicates that other animals may be infected by the virus but the virus only be harmful to the cane toads.
Essay evaluation report
flaws:
need some details even from reading. for example, in the second argument, you:
'in the reading passage that volunteers could help to destroy the toads...'
It is simple, though it reaches the goal. Let's look at the sample from ETS:
'The Reading passage gives the opposite view. Organizing a large group of volunteers to join an extermination campaign would speed the destruction of cane toads.'
See, It is more clear with details.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 24 in 30
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 11 12
No. of Words: 232 250
No. of Characters: 1151 1200
No. of Different Words: 116 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.903 4.2
Average Word Length: 4.961 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.553 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 77 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 62 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 34 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 23 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.091 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.051 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.455 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.384 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.64 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.115 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, lastly, may, nonetheless, second, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 10.0 22.412803532 45% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1183.0 1373.03311258 86% => OK
No of words: 232.0 270.72406181 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09913793103 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.90276135726 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62666274274 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 124.0 145.348785872 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.534482758621 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 362.7 419.366225166 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.3011855521 49.2860985944 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.545454545 110.228320801 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0909090909 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.54545454545 7.06452816374 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.476516635521 0.272083759551 175% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.167981845386 0.0996497079465 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.115543886057 0.0662205650399 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.258134452074 0.162205337803 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.090406004485 0.0443174109184 204% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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