The shrimping industry relies on trawls to catch shrimp. Trawls are huge nets that
are dragged behind boats in order to catch shrimp. Other animals, like sea turtles,
are often caught inside these nets and soon die without sufficient oxygen. To help
reduce the number of accidental deaths to sea turtles, engineers created a Turtle
Excluder Device (TED), that must now be installed in all shrimping trawls. This one
simple invention has greatly reduced the number of sea turtle deaths per year for a
number of reasons.
First, the TED was specifically designed to help sea turtles. The TED mechanism has a
mechanical barrier in the middle of the net that prevents any animal larger than ten
centimeters from getting caught deep inside. Once the animal hits this metal grid, it
tilts downward, providing that animal with a clear path to exit. Smaller animals, like
shrimp, pass through the metal guard and get caught in the end of the trawl net, as
usual.
Second, in order to make sure that fisherman use the Turtle Excluder Device, the
"Shrimp-Turtle Law" was passed. It states that all trawling shrimping boats must
have a TED installed. There are specific organizations in charge of monitoring
shrimping vessels to ensure that their TEDs are properly installed and maintained.
Finally, America now tightly controls the import of shrimp. All shrimp products must
come from a ship that is a certified user of TED-installed shrimping trawls. Countries,
companies, or fishermen who do not comply with the "Shrimp-Turtle Law" are not
allowed to sell their products in the US and some European countries. Since most
shrimping businesses want to import their goods to as many locations as possible,
they have decided to comply and install TEDs in their trawls.
The reading and the audio prompt are both about the causes and effects of installing a Turtle Excluder Device(TED) in shrimping trawls respectively. inorder .The author of the reading feels that the TED mechanism will be an effective way to reduce the number of accidential turtle deaths to sea turtles, however the author of the audio prompt believes that this idea is not a great one as it is not perfect and has several flaws. To support her position, the author of the audio prompt has stated several reasons.
Firstly, the author of the reading prompt suggests that the TED mechanism's mechanical barrier will prevent any animal larger than ten centimeters from getting trapped inside. To challenge this argument, the author of the audio prompt claims that, though this mechanism let's out turtles larger tha ten centimeters, it does not assure than the medium sized turtles will be released. It might quite be possible that the medium sized turtles might not be able to pass through the mechanical barrier. In addition to this, she argues that the shrimps might also exit these trawls leading to huge losses.
Secondly, the author of the reading prompt claims that the "Shrimp-Turtle Law" was passed inorder to make the fisherman use the Turtle Excluder Device. The author of the audio prompt, however rebuts this by saying that the firsherman do not abide by these laws. They install the TED devices when they leave from the shores but once they are deep inside the waters, far away from the shore, they deinstall the devices as there is nobody to monitor them there. In addition to this, the fisherman also present fake documents to show that they comply with the "Shrimp-Turtle Law" as the shrimping business is international and it's hard to find which documents are fake and which are legit.
Finally, the reading and audio prompts clearly highlight both the sides of installing the TED mechanism. The author of the reading prompt explains the advantages of installing the device while the author of the audio counters it by presenting her views.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, however, second, secondly, so, while, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1736.0 1373.03311258 126% => OK
No of words: 346.0 270.72406181 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01734104046 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31289638616 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61382272362 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 145.348785872 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491329479769 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 515.7 419.366225166 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 56.5010341844 49.2860985944 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.538461538 110.228320801 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.6153846154 21.698381199 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.53846153846 7.06452816374 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.113609036943 0.272083759551 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0493971017672 0.0996497079465 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0557176116731 0.0662205650399 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0671989740315 0.162205337803 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0390987665089 0.0443174109184 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 13.3589403974 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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