Recent incursions by deep-sea fishermen into the habitat of the Madagascan shrimp have led to a significant reduction in the species population. With the breeding season fast approaching, the number of shrimp should soon begin to increase. Nonetheless, the population should not return to the levels before the fishing boats arrived. Because this trend is expected to continue over the next several years, the Madagascan shrimp will quickly become an endangered species.
The author assumes that the fall in Madagascan shrimp population is linked with the incursion by deep-sea fishermen. There could be a number of other factors at play which are the actual reason and the incursions might be just a coincidence. Other factors which could be at play are epidemic in the shrimp population, global warming and climate changes resulting in inhospitable living environments or an increase in the population of shrimp predators. Also, the author mentions "significant reduction". An exact quantification is required since even a 5-10% reduction could be a "significant" change...
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 300 350
No. of Characters: 1576 1500
No. of Different Words: 159 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.162 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.253 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.866 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 122 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 93 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 68 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.429 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.622 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.357 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.363 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.562 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.108 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 589, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...d since even a 5-10% reduction could be a 'significant' change from the...
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Line 3, column 222, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...e details pertaining to his hypothesis. The author could cite scientific evidence r...
^^^
Line 5, column 218, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'years'' or 'year's'?
Suggestion: years'; year's
...nvironment, which led to a fall in this years population but with the continual effor...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 426, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'shrimps'' or 'shrimp's'?
Suggestion: shrimps'; shrimp's
...shermen would stop encroaching upon the shrimps territory and change their locations. T...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, second, so, then, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 16.3942115768 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1634.0 2260.96107784 72% => OK
No of words: 299.0 441.139720559 68% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.46488294314 5.12650576532 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.20694108005 2.78398813304 115% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 204.123752495 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.52508361204 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 495.0 705.55239521 70% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.3470146463 57.8364921388 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.714285714 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3571428571 23.324526521 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.85714285714 5.70786347227 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => 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: 0.175180732777 0.218282227539 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0688254297905 0.0743258471296 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0706791619524 0.0701772020484 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0957072351035 0.128457276422 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0638211441186 0.0628817314937 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.3550499002 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.39 12.5979740519 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.85 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 98.500998004 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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
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