TOEFL T P O 15 Integrated Writing Task

Undoubtedly, protecting ecosystems from harmful species like cane toads is a controversial topic among scientists. More specifically, the writer puts forth on the idea that there are some ways to prevent cane toads from spread. however the professor points out that there are some serious flaws with the writer's claim. She more or less addresses the problem with each point made in the reading.

First of all, the writer claims that building a national fence can prevent cane toads to spread. He thinks 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. But the professor refutes with this idea and said, even if cane toads can not get through the fence, there are rivers and streams that can carry young tods or their eggs to the other side, and once they're on the other side, they will establish their colonies there.

Secondly, the reading states that volunteers can easily caught tods by simple traps and even captured them by hand. The professor, not surprisingly though believes that untrained people can make mistakes in distinguishing tods from some types of frogs that are very similar to them, people may capture these kinds of frogs or even poisoning ones instead of tods which can be harmful for their health.

Finally, the author wraps up the topic by claiming that researchers are developing a disease-causing virus to control the cane toad populations. This virus can be used to harm only the cane toads and kill them. Then again, the professor stays on the other side of the argument and says that this virus can reach to the central America and harm tods over there too, and since cane tods are national species there, it would make a ecological disaster.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 229, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: However
...ways to prevent cane toads from spread. however the professor points out that there are...
^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 229, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: however,
...ways to prevent cane toads from spread. however the professor points out that there are...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 445, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: they're
... their eggs to the other side, and once theyre on the other side, they will establish ...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 428, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...e national species there, it would make a ecological disaster.
^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, first of all, more or less

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1468.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 302.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86092715232 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1687104957 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.39918886049 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.556291390728 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 438.3 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.9102449817 49.2860985944 146% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.333333333 110.228320801 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.1666666667 21.698381199 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.75 7.06452816374 110% => 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 : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
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: 0.0 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: 14.0 13.3589403974 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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