TOEFL T P O 15 Integrated Writing Task

The passage and the lecture are both about the possible ways of stopping cane toads spead and the reasons why they can not be implemented.

First of all, the article mentions that spreading can be stopped via national fence. This method is already used in twentieth ecntury to stop the spread of rabbits. But compared with them, cane toads most of the time use rivers and streams. For them it is not the problem the pass the fance by water. After passing that fence, they can make new populations on the other side of the fence with means that fence is not so effective.

Secondly, the writer suggests that toads can be captured and eliminated by group of volunteers. Main argument for this method is that the size of cane toads are big enough which makes easy to catch them. The lecturer, however, rebuts on this by mentioning that volunteers may also destory other native animals. The reason is that cane toads are very similar to the native Australian frogs and unprepared volunteers will significantly decrease their populations.

And finally, the author posits that spreading of cane toads can be decreased by using special designed virus. Even if other reptiles will be infected, it will only have influence on cane toads. In contrast, the lecturer's position is that virus can easily be transfered to the USA. Species from the Australia can be moved to the USA by touists or other people. The problem is that in USA cane toads are playing a big role in ecological cycle and uncontolled virus will led to big ecological catastrophe.

Votes
Average: 0.3 (1 vote)
Essay Categories

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 469, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'lead'
Suggestion: lead
...ogical cycle and uncontolled virus will led to big ecological catastrophe.
^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, in contrast, first of all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1281.0 1373.03311258 93% => OK
No of words: 266.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.81578947368 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03850299372 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50789076386 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.563909774436 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 398.7 419.366225166 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.6899898006 49.2860985944 54% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 85.4 110.228320801 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7333333333 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.13333333333 7.06452816374 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => 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: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
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: 10.1 13.3589403974 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.38 12.2367328918 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.63 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => 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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