sea otters

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sea otters

Sea otters are small mammals. Recently the sea otters off the coast of Alaska started to decline. Two reasons pointed out as the source of the decline. One was environmental pollutants and the other was large predators.

First, one reason pollution was believed to be the main source of sea otters declined is the fact of the well-know oil rigs along the Alaskan coast. Also water samples of the Alaskan coast have shown increasing numbers of chemicals that might have affected the immune system of the sea otter population.

Another reason was pollution is believed to be the culprit of the decline of sea otter population is the disappearing of other sea mammals along the west coast of Alaska, such seals. Environmental problems affect an entire ecosystem, not only a single species. Only large predators like orca ( large predator whale) can cause the same effect of an environment.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 150, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...-know oil rigs along the Alaskan coast. Also water samples of the Alaskan coast have...
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Line 5, column 292, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... species. Only large predators like orca large predator whale can cause the same ...
^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, so, well

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 1.0 7.30242825607 14% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 1.0 12.0772626932 8% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 1.0 22.412803532 4% => OK
Preposition: 20.0 30.3222958057 66% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 740.0 1373.03311258 54% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 148.0 270.72406181 55% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.48791127476 4.04702891845 86% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61977505321 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 88.0 145.348785872 61% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.594594594595 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 235.8 419.366225166 56% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 0.0 8.23620309051 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

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: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.2554440182 49.2860985944 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.2222222222 110.228320801 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.4444444444 21.698381199 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.33333333333 7.06452816374 33% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.385699973251 0.272083759551 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.194928455301 0.0996497079465 196% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.198877957684 0.0662205650399 300% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.292207980141 0.162205337803 180% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0661157846802 0.0443174109184 149% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.3 13.3589403974 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.42 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.23 8.42419426049 110% => OK
difficult_words: 45.0 63.6247240618 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:

para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3

Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).

Don't need a conclusion paragraph.

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Minimum 150 words wanted.

Rates: 40.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 12.0 Out of 30
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