The reading and the lecture are both about the decline of population of sea otters and other mammal that live in California to Alaska. The author of the reading feels that sea otters decline is by environmental pollution. The lecturer challenged the claims made by the author. He is of the opinion that sea otters disappear because of predators.
To begin with, the author argues that in Alaska there is pollution such as oil rigs. The article mentions that high levels of chemical spread on the ocean so sea otters are dead. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims the predators killed sea otters. Additionally, he says predators eaten all sea otters so people could not see floating sea otters or being washed away because of pollution.
Secondly, the writer suggests that pollution killed other mammals such as seals in Alaska. In the article, it is said that predators kill only sea otters, however other seals are also dead. Hence, pollution could have killed mammals. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning that orcas killed other sea mammals. He elaborates on this by bringing up the point that human hunted some whales- the food of orcas so the predators do not have food. Therefore, they have eaten other sea mammals such as seals.
Finally, the author posits that irregular patterns of otters decline is because of the pollution. In contrast, the lecturer’s position is that it is not because of the pollutants but of the predators. He notes that predators can only reach the deeper part of the sea that’s is why the sea otters living there are almost killed. In addition, the population is stable in the shallow places because predators cannot reach these areas.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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... decline is by environmental pollution. The lecturer challenged the claims made by ...
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...otters disappear because of predators. To begin with, the author argues that in...
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...eing washed away because of pollution. Secondly, the writer suggests that pollu...
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...eaten other sea mammals such as seals. Finally, the author posits that irregula...
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Message: Did you mean 'that is'?
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...n only reach the deeper part of the sea that’s is why the sea otters living there are alm...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, in addition, in contrast, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1434.0 1373.03311258 104% => OK
No of words: 289.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96193771626 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12310562562 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50731619448 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 137.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.474048442907 0.540411800872 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 441.9 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => 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: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.5108787866 49.2860985944 60% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 75.4736842105 110.228320801 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.2105263158 21.698381199 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.36842105263 7.06452816374 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 4.45695364238 247% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.259813426595 0.272083759551 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0903782151793 0.0996497079465 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0798121249265 0.0662205650399 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186961394847 0.162205337803 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0758260295549 0.0443174109184 171% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.5 13.3589403974 71% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 53.8541721854 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.0289183223 73% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.9 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.82 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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