Bears are mammals of the family Ursidae. Bears are classified as caniforms, or doglike
carnivorans, with the pinnipeds being their closest living relatives. Although there are only
eight living species of bear, they are widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats
throughout the Northern Hemisphere and partially in the Southern Hemisphere. Bears are
found on the continents of North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. There are a few
things to keep in mind about bears.
When bears lose their fear of people, they become more likely to attack. Therefore, in
communities where bears and humans live in close proximity to each other, and, if the people
in those communities feed the bears, the bears will recognize humans as a food source,
hence making them more likely to attack humans in the future.
Bears are naturally aggressive toward humans. This aggression may be displayed by the bear
standing on its hind legs, a sure signal that it is preparing to charge its victim. In addition,
before attacking humans, bears are known to huff and growl or even slap the ground, again
indicating that they are about to attack.
If you are confronted with an attacking bear, there are three things that you can do which
may protect you from these predators. First, if the bear charges, run away as fast as you can.
Second, if there is a tree nearby, climb it quickly, for most bears are unable to follow you up
the tree. Third, as a last resort, the best defense against a bear is a gun. Shoot it as many
times as you can, which will make it less likely to attack you.
Writing Prompt: Summarize the main points in the lecture explaining how they oppose the main points
in the reading passage.
The reading passage and lecturer both talk about bears. While the author thinks that it can be dangerous for humans to coexist with bears, the lecturer feels that it is safe.
First of all, according to the reading passage, When bears don't fear someone, they are more likely to attack them. Therefore, people who feed the bear and stay close to them are more likely to be attacked by bears since they see them as a food source. However, the lecturer disputes this argument. He thinks that bears won’t attack people whom he trusts. To bolster his claims he provides an example of Minnesota where people and bears are living together for 40 years. He also provides an example of Pennsylvania where 7000 people live with 21 bears.
Secondly, the author of the reading passage thinks that bears are aggressive. He mentions some early signs such as standing on the hind leg, luft and growl and slapping the ground that can act as an indication of a bear attack. However, the lecturer thinks the opposite. The lecturer claims that when the bear is standing on the hind leg he is trying to get a better view. Similarly, Luft and growl are to communicate dominance.
Lastly, the author claims that the best way to rescue from a bear attack is to Run, Climb, and use a gun. However, the lecturer challenges this argument. He states that instead of running we should talk to the bear, we should not climb to try as even bears are capable to climb the tree and it's better to use lethal pepper spray instead of a gun on the bear.
In conclusion, both the reading passage and the lecturer talks about bears and ways to rescue from bears. However, the lecturer challenges 3 main points specified by the author.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, similarly, so, therefore, while, in conclusion, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1408.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 303.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.64686468647 5.08290768461 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.29727152477 2.5805825403 89% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 145.348785872 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.485148514851 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 412.2 419.366225166 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.6216423404 49.2860985944 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 78.2222222222 110.228320801 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8333333333 21.698381199 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.72222222222 7.06452816374 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.200530497005 0.272083759551 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0636917430526 0.0996497079465 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0520035330804 0.0662205650399 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105748931809 0.162205337803 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0562105000783 0.0443174109184 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.9 13.3589403974 67% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 72.16 53.8541721854 134% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 11.0289183223 65% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.39 12.2367328918 77% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.36 8.42419426049 75% => OK
difficult_words: 37.0 63.6247240618 58% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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