Humans have been battling the tropical disease malaria since at least the late fourth century B.C. This debilitating and deadly disease is actually a parasite which reproduces in humans and is spread through the saliva of mosquitoes when they suck blood from humans. While there is still no cure for malaria, there are three main strategies that we hope will lead to the eradication of this disease which kills nearly half a million people around the world each year.
The first strategy is to fight the malaria parasite itself by treating patients with powerful prescription medicines. Patients are tested to determine which strain of the malaria parasite is present, as different areas of the world have different strains of the parasite. Then, an effective medicine is administered to combat the symptoms of the infection.
The second strategy is to kill the mosquitoes that transfer the parasite to humans. Killing the adult mosquitoes using chemical sprays is a common option, but the larvae of the mosquitoes can also be killed where they develop, in pools of warm, still water. These larvae can be killed using chemicals, but another popular approach is to release fish into the water that prey on the larvae such as guppies to eat the larvae before they mature into adults.
The third strategy is called the sterile insect technique. "Sterile" means the insect cannot reproduce. This strategy involves breeding and hatching millions of mosquitoes, sterilizing the males with low-level gamma rays, and then releasing them into the wild population. Females that mate with the sterile males produce eggs which do not hatch, and this causes the mosquitoes to die out. This strategy has been effective in wiping out a number of insect pests including the screw-worm and several types of fruit flies.
The reading and the lecture are both about methods to prevent spreading malaria disease. The author of the reading feels that there are some ways to eradicate this disease. The lecturer challanges the claims made by the author. He is of the opinion these theories are falce.
To begin with, the author argues that prescribtion of more powerful drugs facilitate getting cure of patients. If these medications will be given people by strain they have, treating all patients would be possible by targeting medicine about their strains. The lecturer, however, rebuts it by mentioning that within certain time period humans will generate tolerance to these drugs. His thought about it has been profoundly influenced by ineffectiveness of previous drugs, because they do not treat patients anymore.
Secondly, the writer suggests killing mosquitos might be other way to eliminate disease. She offers that by sprays that contain chemicals to kill mosquitoes and releasing some fish to sea that hunt their larvas would be helpful to decrease number of harmful mosquitoes. This specific arguement is challanged by the lecturer. He claims that because these mosquitoes are not stabile it is hard to reduce them with chemicals. Because of high number of larvas in the sea it is impossible to destroy all of them by foish as well.
Finally, the article posits that sterilizing of male mosquitoes will result declaring their offspring, that is why, spreading of infection will be reduced too, which is proved method on some fruitflies species. In contrast, the lecturer mentions that albeit previous success of this method on the fruit flies, the gama radiation cause to seem less attractive appear of males, therefore female mosquitoes do not enter fertilizing process with them. Therefore, this method is also uneffective.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 174, 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.
...re some ways to eradicate this disease. The lecturer challanges the claims made by ...
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Line 3, column 48, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...y, the writer suggests killing mosquitos might be other way to eliminate disease....
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1527.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 290.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26551724138 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67722370262 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.6 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 463.5 419.366225166 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 55.5898765514 49.2860985944 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.4375 110.228320801 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.125 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.125 7.06452816374 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0939722463782 0.272083759551 35% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0290874377692 0.0996497079465 29% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0195816614771 0.0662205650399 30% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0538196917292 0.162205337803 33% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0111992486087 0.0443174109184 25% => 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: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.99 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.1 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 63.6247240618 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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