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. The author argues that it can be dangerous for humans to coexist with bears, while, the lecturer opposes the author's position.
Firstly, 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 them since they see them as a food source. However, the lecturer disputes this argument as he thinks that bears won't attack the people whom they trust. To bolster his claims, he provides an example of Minnesota, where people and bears have lived 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 believes that bears are aggressive as he mentions early signs of a bear attack, such as standing on the hind leg, huffing, growling, and slapping the ground. However, The lecturer asserts that when a bear is standing on its hind leg, he is trying to get a better view and huff and growl to communicate dominance.
Lastly, the author suggests that the best way to avoid a bear attack is by running, climbing, and using a gun. However, the speaker challenges this argument by stating that instead of running, we should talk to the bear, we should not climb a tree, as even bears are capable of doing so, and it is better to use lethal pepper spray instead of a gun on the bear.
In conclusion, the reading passage and the author discuss bears and ways to rescue them from a bear attack. However, the lecturer challenges three 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, firstly, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1370.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 289.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.74048442907 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12310562562 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.36106880405 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525951557093 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 400.5 419.366225166 96% => 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.5252319513 49.2860985944 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.166666667 110.228320801 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0833333333 21.698381199 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.75 7.06452816374 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.220291853743 0.272083759551 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0850033816071 0.0996497079465 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0486258201403 0.0662205650399 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118706749616 0.162205337803 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.048308006003 0.0443174109184 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 53.8541721854 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.51 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.61 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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