The reading passage claims that the zebra mussel has long been spreading out from their habitats and believe this invasion can not be stopped and makes a lot of threat for freshwater fish. However, the professor in the lecture casts doubts on the points made in the reading.
The reading passage claims that the zebra mussel has long been spreading out from their habitats and believe this invasion can not be stopped and makes a lot of threat for freshwater fish. However, the professor in the lecture casts doubts on the points made in the reading.
First, considering the article the invasion might be unstoppable and ships carry them out along new canals and habitats. In contrast, the professor contradicts the idea and further explains that a view about unstoppable spread of the zebra mussel is due to lack of knowledge about them and most of the shellfishs dead in the salty water during a journey in the bottom of ships in all around the world.
Second, the reading claims that zebra mussel have no predators in their new area and they do well under variety of conditions. Admittedly, the professor justified the information presented in the article and makes the points that in new sites the zebra mussels have problems finding enough foods and also birds find them as a delicious meal.
Third, the reading passage puts forward the idea that the mussels are plankton eater, which means they compete for food with fish specious. In the same way, the speaker validates the idea and adds that but there are positive aspects such as the mussels can produce nutrition for feeding bottom fish population.
To sum up, both the writer and speaker hold conflicting views about spreading the mussels out from its original habitats.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, so, third, well, in contrast, such as, to sum up, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1225.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 247.0 270.72406181 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95951417004 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96437052324 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40811404637 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 140.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.566801619433 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 354.6 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => 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: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 56.3145925434 49.2860985944 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.111111111 110.228320801 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.4444444444 21.698381199 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.5555555556 7.06452816374 164% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.472507108558 0.272083759551 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.186940868152 0.0996497079465 188% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.218569929003 0.0662205650399 330% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.268532003547 0.162205337803 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.293909429063 0.0443174109184 663% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.99 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
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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