Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the specific points made in the reading passage
The author of the passage and the professor in the lecture hold opposing views regarding free trade.
According to the professor, there is a lot of concern regarding free trade. First, it actually damages the growth of poor nations as free trade is usually associated with worker exploitation and environmental degradation. This is because in order to attract investment, countries are under pressure to relax social and environmental regulations. This is opposite to the view held by the author, who claims that engaging in free trade is a boon for growth and development. Accordingly, countries who engage in free trade often seek economic growth because international markets become available to them and it allows them to export goods. This also encourages foreign direct investments.
The professor claims that sub-Saharan countries lost billions of dollars because they were forced to engage in free trade as a result of aid for debt relief. Had they not done so, they would have earned more money to pay off debt and provide schooling and vaccines for all children. The author, however, claims that these nations have actually benefited from free trade through the WTO's special and differential treatment rule. Under this rule, countries keep a major portion of tariffs and receive preferential treatment in foreign markets, which has given them an advantage over other nations.
The professor believes that free trade agreements are also likely to create competing trading blocs. These blocs can create an imbalance between the richer and the poorer nations resulting in an unequal bargaining for power ultimately leading to the imposition of trade restrictions on the poorer country. However, the author suggests that with free trade, countries will be able to acquire resources because free trade improves the global allocation of resources so that the needed resources go where they are valued most.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, actually, also, first, however, if, regarding, so, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1617.0 1373.03311258 118% => OK
No of words: 303.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.33663366337 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73545799662 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.567656765677 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 493.2 419.366225166 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.7667423931 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.5 110.228320801 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6428571429 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.35714285714 7.06452816374 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 4.33554083885 254% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0338893066291 0.272083759551 12% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0138966434394 0.0996497079465 14% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0242195344919 0.0662205650399 37% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0339493394699 0.162205337803 21% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0280500262721 0.0443174109184 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.2367328918 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.21 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 63.6247240618 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, actually, also, first, however, if, regarding, so, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1617.0 1373.03311258 118% => OK
No of words: 303.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.33663366337 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73545799662 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.567656765677 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 493.2 419.366225166 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.7667423931 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.5 110.228320801 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6428571429 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.35714285714 7.06452816374 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 4.33554083885 254% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0338893066291 0.272083759551 12% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0138966434394 0.0996497079465 14% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0242195344919 0.0662205650399 37% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0339493394699 0.162205337803 21% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0280500262721 0.0443174109184 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.2367328918 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.21 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 63.6247240618 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.