nutrias
The author in the text passage suggests three methods to control the population of nutrias, a rodent-like pest that harms the environment. He includes methods such as building metal walls and fences, drying up the drainage, and consuming nutria meat. The lecturer, however, finds serious flaws in the writer's claims.
Firstly, the author claims that building metal walls and fences will prevent the nutrias from damaging property. However, the speaker explains that nutrias are notorious for their sharp-clawed feet, and will dig deep underground and make their way into farms and gardens regardless of how deep they are constructed. This directly contradicts the claims made by the writer in the text passage.
Further, the passage proposes a plan to dry up drainage systems to prevent nutrias from inhabiting low-lying lands. Again, the author is quick to point out that this is measure is far too drastic to control the nutria population. Drying up drainage may, in fact, actually have a negative impact on crop production. As a result, people's livelihoods will be affected. This defeats the purpose of curbing the nutria population and refutes the statements made by the author.
Finally, the writer posits that consuming nutrias for their tasty, nutrient-dense meat will be an effective measure to get rid of them. Unsurprisingly, the lecture takes issue with this by contending that nutrias are hosts to several bacteria that may cause conditions such as Tuberculosis, Septicemia, and Tularemia. Such pathogens are harmful to humans on consumption and can cause rashes, fever, and weight loss. Hence, eating the meat of these rats may prove to do more harm than good, according to the professor.
To sum up, the speaker and author have contradicting opinions on how to control the population of the rats. Metal walls and fences will be rendered ineffective, drying up drainage will harm crop production, and eating nutria meat will post health threats to the consumers.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, finally, first, firstly, hence, however, may, so, as for, in fact, such as, as a result, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1670.0 1373.03311258 122% => OK
No of words: 318.0 270.72406181 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25157232704 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22286093782 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75699196718 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.547169811321 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 484.2 419.366225166 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.51434878587 330% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.4982810923 49.2860985944 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.2352941176 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7058823529 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.35294117647 7.06452816374 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 4.45695364238 247% => 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: 0.287237891064 0.272083759551 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0951732700485 0.0996497079465 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0923690773796 0.0662205650399 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.170494735783 0.162205337803 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0549117059405 0.0443174109184 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.17 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.9 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 63.6247240618 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.5 Out of 30
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