Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.
The cane toad is a large (1.8 kg) amphibian species native to Central and South America. It was deliberately introduced to Australia in 1935 with the expectation that it would protect farmers’ crops by eating harmful insects. Unfortunately, the toad multiplied rapidly, and a large cane toad population now threatens small native animals that are not pests. Several measures have been proposed to stop the spread of the cane toad in Australia.
One way to prevent the spread of the toad would be to build a national fence. A fence that blocks the advance of the toads will prevent them from moving into those parts of Australia that they have not yet colonized. This approach has been used before: a national fence was erected in the early part of the twentieth century to prevent the spread of rabbits, another animal species that was introduced in Australia from abroad and had a harmful impact on its native ecosystems.
Second, the toads could be captured and destroyed by volunteers. Cane toads can easily be caught in simple traps and can even be captured by hand. Young toads and cane toad eggs are even easier to gather and destroy, since they are restricted to the water. If the Australian government were to organize a campaign among Australian citizens to join forces to destroy the toads, the collective effort might stop the toad from spreading.
Third, researchers are developing a disease-causing virus to control the cane toad populations. This virus will be specially designed: although it will be able to infect a number of reptile and amphibian species, it will not harm most of the infected species; it will specifically harm only the cane toads. The virus will control the population of cane toads by preventing them from maturing and reproducing.
In this day and age people tend to think that in the future. they will choose to read news without over buying traditional newspapars or books to read. From my point of view. I totally disagree with this opinion. There are some reasons to account for this trend On the one hand, Becouse not almost people also have their own phones or camputer to read newspapers online. some people are in poverty they do not have enough money to read printed books to keep themself updated with what is happening around them. Furthermore as for older generation they are quite illiteratechnology so they could not the way to use buttons the keyboard to search news. it is pretty inconvenient for them to keep track of information. For istance, my grandmather she is frustrated when taking a long times to search a kind of news to read and finally she no longer using it. Instead of that she bought newspapers to read In addition to that using excessive texnological equipment like computer or phone couse damage to their eyes and have some adverse effects on their health in mentally and physically. For example as for children if make their eyes to be weaken and short - sighted. In terms of the older people , it enables them to be headache or dizzy when keeping constantly their eyes glued to the screen to read. In conclusion , Although I have to admite that reading online have lots of advantages to people if does never replace the postition of printed newspapars or books. In the future, those are still popular due its benefits which have been brought to humen life.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: They
...eople tend to think that in the future. they will choose to read news without over b...
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Suggestion: Some
... or camputer to read newspapers online. some people are in poverty they do not have ...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Furthermore,
...ted with what is happening around them. Furthermore as for older generation they are quite ...
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Suggestion: It
...se buttons the keyboard to search news. it is pretty inconvenient for them to keep...
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Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
... - sighted. In terms of the older people , it enables them to be headache or dizzy...
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Suggestion: ,
...ued to the screen to read. In conclusion , Although I have to admite that reading ...
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...stition of printed newspapars or books. In the future, those are still popular due...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, furthermore, if, so, still, as for, for example, in addition, in conclusion, kind of
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 : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 30.3222958057 148% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1285.0 1373.03311258 94% => OK
No of words: 274.0 270.72406181 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.6897810219 5.08290768461 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55794961973 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.594890510949 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 400.5 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 0.0 8.23620309051 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.3030047652 49.2860985944 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.7857142857 110.228320801 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5714285714 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.42857142857 7.06452816374 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 1.0 4.09492273731 24% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0740216749664 0.272083759551 27% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0289138042165 0.0996497079465 29% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0283441075583 0.0662205650399 43% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0740216749664 0.162205337803 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0443174109184 0% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 13.3589403974 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.92 12.2367328918 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.92 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 63.6247240618 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => 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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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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