TOEFL integrated writing: certifications

The passage and the lecture compares and contrasts the different advertising claims made to preserve and to protect the environment.

The first entails that, despite many claims that wood companies are uninterested to pay attention to eco-certification. The speaker contradicts by highlighting that there are American consumers who are ecologically minded to choose products from independent agencies which trade eco-certified wood products. He further goes on to claim that they do not treat all advertisements the same. Moreover, consumers can distinguish the wood companies who advertise thei...

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Sentence: Otherwise, if the American wood companies are slow at capturing the customers, there are every chances that foriegn companies could have better sale rates than the domestic companies.
Error: foriegn Suggestion: foreign

flaws:
No. of Words: 407 250
Number of Paragraphs: 5 4

The correct pattern:

para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3

Don't need a conclusion.

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Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 28 in 30
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 17 10
No. of Words: 407 250
No. of Characters: 2121 1200
No. of Different Words: 203 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.492 4.3
Average Word Length: 5.211 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.764 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 155 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 127 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 91 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 59 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.941 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.332 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.588 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.334 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.563 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.094 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 4