TED and turtles

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TED and turtles

The reading and the lecture are both about the turtles that are caught by shrimp bouts unwantedly and die. There has been a new idea called TED that would prevent this problem and help the turtles getaway. The passage provides some problems with this idea. The lecturer disputes each of the ideas made by the author and provides reasons for each and every one of them.

First, the article mentions the percentage of the turtles that are captured by the shrimp nets is small, and considering that the TED method would cost the fisherman some of their profits, it is not economical. The lecturer disputes this idea. She points out that although the percentage is small for one boat there are thousands of boats and therefore thousands of turtles die each year. Moreover, the turtles are endangered species and this could really hurt their survival rate.

Secondly, the article suggests that shrimp boats can shorten the time their net is in the water so the turtles would be released and before suffocating. The lecturer argues that this idea may be good in theory but it can not be done well, as the time the shrimpers take their net out can not be monitored. she goes on to say that the TED is doable because the nets can be checked before each ship enters the area.

Finally, the reading posits that TEDs are only good for small turtles, and bigger fishes like leatherback turtles and loggerheads would still die because they can not escape through the standard passage. In contrast, the lecturer says that the size of the net's passage can be specifically designed for each area to prevent this problem as it is a modifiable parameter. 

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 190, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'turtles'' or 'turtle's'?
Suggestion: turtles'; turtle's
...would prevent this problem and help the turtles getaway. The passage provides some prob...
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Line 1, column 342, Rule ID: EACH_AND_EVERY[1]
Message: Consider using 'each one'.
Suggestion: each one
... by the author and provides reasons for each and every one of them. First, the article mention...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 307, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: She
...ake their net out can not be monitored. she goes on to say that the TED is doable b...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, if, may, moreover, really, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, well, in contrast

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.4613686534 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 5.01324503311 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1364.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 285.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.78596491228 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10876417139 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38290825878 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.494736842105 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 409.5 419.366225166 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.0059748211 49.2860985944 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.923076923 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9230769231 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.07692307692 7.06452816374 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 4.45695364238 224% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.251580617746 0.272083759551 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100358922147 0.0996497079465 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0973572239044 0.0662205650399 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.175231152533 0.162205337803 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0557536883806 0.0443174109184 126% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 53.8541721854 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.5 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 63.6247240618 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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