TOEFL integrated writing: Altruism.

The listening passage demonstrates things that are actually in quite contrast to the views presented in the reading passage about Altruistic behaviours in some animals like meerkat and humans.

Firstly, the meerkat which acts as a sentinel for the group, has actually eaten even before it starts its guarding duty and is on full stomach while guarding, hence it is not actually sacrificing any of its food by guarding.This finding is entirely opposite to the one that is discussed in the reading stating about the altruistic behaviour of sentinel meerkat.

Secondly, it is even found that the sentinel meerkat stands near a borrow while guarding, to which it can quickly escape when a predator approaches it. Also, the alarm cry which it makes as a sign of the predator approach actually makes the meerkats in the group move towards one another and to all directions creating a slight chaos which actually makes it easy for the predator to attack the group rather than the sentinel which is alone and puts the group in higher risk than the sentinel. This observation opposes the view mentioned in the reading passage about the altruistic perspective of the sentinel protecting the group at the expense of it facing higher risk from the predator.

Finally, humans who donate organs to family members and strangers do not actually go without any reward but get lot of appreciation, social approval which brings about a feeling of self-worth. In this way, this act of organ donation which is discussed a self-less altruistic act which bears no benefit to the donor is completely reward less after all for the people who value non-materialistic things like appreciation and approval.

Votes
Average: 0.3 (1 vote)
Essay Categories

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 225, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: This
...sacrificing any of its food by guarding.This finding is entirely opposite to the one...
^^^^
Line 3, column 310, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...that is discussed in the reading stating about the altruistic behaviour of sentin...
^^
Line 5, column 66, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...d that the sentinel meerkat stands near a borrow while guarding, to which it can quickly...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 330, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'rewarded'.
Suggestion: rewarded
...s no benefit to the donor is completely reward less after all for the people who value...
^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, firstly, hence, if, second, secondly, so, while, after all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1412.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 279.0 270.72406181 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06093189964 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08696624509 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74284193324 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.537634408602 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 431.1 419.366225166 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.23620309051 36% => 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: 7.0 13.0662251656 54% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 39.0 21.2450331126 184% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 75.0499153625 49.2860985944 152% => OK
Chars per sentence: 201.714285714 110.228320801 183% => OK
Words per sentence: 39.8571428571 21.698381199 184% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.5714285714 7.06452816374 192% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0 0.272083759551 0% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0 0.0996497079465 0% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0662205650399 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0 0.162205337803 0% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
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: 22.3 13.3589403974 167% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.35 53.8541721854 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 17.3 11.0289183223 157% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.66 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.14 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 10.7273730684 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 17.6 10.498013245 168% => OK
text_standard: 18.0 11.2008830022 161% => 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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