The cane toad is a large (1.8 kg) amphibian species native to Central and South America. It was deliberately introduced to Australia in 1935 with the expectation that it would protect farmers' crops by eating harmful insects. Unfortunately, the toad multiplied rapidly, and a large cane toad population now threatens small native animals that are not pests. Several measures have been proposed to stop the spread of the cane toad in Australia.
One way to prevent the spread of the toad would be to build a national fence. A fence that blocks the advance of the toads will prevent them from moving into those parts of Australia that they have not yet colonized. This approach has been used before: a national fence was erected in the early part of the twentieth century to prevent the spread of rabbits, another animal sSpecies that was introduced in Australia from abroad and had a harmful impact on its native ecosystems.
Second, the toads could be captured and destroyed by volunteers. Cane toads can easily be caught in simple traps and can even be captured by hand. Young toads and cane toad eggs are even easier to gather and destroy, since they are restricted to the water. If the Australian government were to organize a campaign among Australian citizens to join forces to destroy the toads, the collective effort might stop the toad from spreading.
Third, researchers are developing a disease-causing virus to control the cane toad populations. This virus will be specially designed: although it will be able to infect a number of reptile and amphibian species, it will not harm most of the infected species; it will specifically harm only the cane toads. The virus will control the population of cane toads by preventing them from maturing and reproducing.
The reading and the lecture are about the widespread of cane toad.More specifically, in the reading passage, the writer provides three ways by which the mammals could be ameliorated.The lecturer, however, is quick to point out that there are some serious flaws made in the writer’s claim.In fact, he believes and addresses in details the troubles with each point made in the reading text.
First and foremost, the author states that constructing the national fence will serve as principal defense for the amphibians.The lecturer,however, stand in firm opposition to this claim.He states that national fence wouldn’t be a good idea because young told are found in the stream and as a result, the river and stream can’t flow to each other.Therefore fence will be unsuccessful.
Secondly, the author claims that trapping the toad by hand is going to be effective.Again the speaker rebutted this claim.He specifically addresses this point when he states that untrained volunteers wouldn't be able to destroy the road because they are dangerous and endangered.
Finally, the author brings his argument to close by suggesting that researchers innovating pathogenic virus will control toad population.Not surprisingly, the professor refuted this claim by contending that they will eventually come up with a terrible consequence in South America.Besides, American reptiles and amphibians are transported to other continent.Also, virus attack the cane toad and causes ecological disaster.Therefore the ecosystem will suffer.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, in fact, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1306.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 230.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.67826086957 5.08290768461 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89432290496 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.35001622319 2.5805825403 130% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 145.348785872 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.6 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 388.8 419.366225166 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => 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: 4.0 13.0662251656 31% => 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: 57.0 21.2450331126 268% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 64.4243742694 49.2860985944 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 326.5 110.228320801 296% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 57.5 21.698381199 265% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 25.5 7.06452816374 361% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 18.0 4.19205298013 429% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0875056173289 0.272083759551 32% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0519518772457 0.0996497079465 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0448646818862 0.0662205650399 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0519518772457 0.162205337803 32% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0448646818862 0.0443174109184 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 34.1 13.3589403974 255% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: 5.16 53.8541721854 10% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 15.9 5.55761589404 286% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 26.7 11.0289183223 242% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 16.55 12.2367328918 135% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.72 8.42419426049 127% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 27.5 10.7273730684 256% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 24.8 10.498013245 236% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 28.0 11.2008830022 250% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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