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 species 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 lecture is about to stop the spread of the cane toad in australia. The reading proposed three ways to prevent this but the lecturer challenges the claim of the author. She mentions that it will not be enough to stop cane toad growth.
Firstly, The author mentions that to prevent the spread of the toad to build a national fence. A fence that blocks the advance of the toads will prevent them from moving into the part of colonized australia. But the lecturer refutes this claim. She mentions that a fence would probably stop the spread of cane toad. But cane toad are easily moving into water and small eggs are enough to spread the toad to other place in australia. That's why first proposal of author is failed.
Secondly, The author of the reading posits that the toad could be captured and destroyed by volunteers because cane toads are easily to found by small traps and even captured by hand. However the lecturer rebuts this claim. She argues that massive group of untrained volunteer caused many problems. They mixed up cane toad with frog because in young time of cane toad it is difficult to distinguish. Also Frog is the most important animal for australia ecosystem. So Second proposal of author is failed.
On the last part, the authors says that researchers are developing a disease causing virus to control the cane toad populations. i In addition the virus will not effect other reptile and amphibian species and it will harm only cane toads. However the lecturer argues the claim by author. She mentions that it is a terrible decision because it will affect other country such as america. In america kane toad is important for their ecosystem. When this virus affected cane toad goes to america for scientific research it will affect other reptile and it changes the ecosystem. So third proposal of author is failed because of cast doubt by lecturer.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, third, in addition, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1575.0 1373.03311258 115% => OK
No of words: 327.0 270.72406181 121% => OK
Chars per words: 4.81651376147 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.34418780221 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 145.348785872 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.452599388379 0.540411800872 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 477.9 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 13.0662251656 168% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.0955172236 49.2860985944 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 71.5909090909 110.228320801 65% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.8636363636 21.698381199 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.04545454545 7.06452816374 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 4.45695364238 269% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.205688391838 0.272083759551 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0663682966946 0.0996497079465 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0611591741739 0.0662205650399 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141412726049 0.162205337803 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0165250405913 0.0443174109184 37% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.7 13.3589403974 65% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.73 53.8541721854 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.0289183223 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.08 12.2367328918 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.23 8.42419426049 86% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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