The reading and the lecture are both about otters and their decrease in population. The author of the reading believes that otters are decreasing, because of pollution. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article. She thinks that otters are decreasing from predators.
First of all, the author points out that pollution is the main reason of otter decrease. It is mentioned that there are known sources of pollution along the coast of where otters live, one source being industrial chemical pollution. This point is challenged by the lecturer. She says that predators such as orcas are being increased in population which is leading to more otter being killed. Furthermore, she argues that orcas mainly feast on otters.
Secondly, the author contends that other animals such as sea lions were being decreased in population. The article notes that usually pollution affects the whole ecosystem, not just one animal. The lecturer argues with this statement. She says that another reason is the human hunting of mammals. She elaborates this by saying that a few years ago, there was a time when otters were close from extinction from human hunting.
Finally, the author states that Some areas were not affected, but some other areas affected otter greatly. The article establishes that, the currents of the water carried pollutants to different areas. The lecturer on the other hand states that the uneven deduction of otters is due to the location of the orcas. She puts forth on this idea by stating that orcas are big and cannot go to shallow waters.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 170, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...s are decreasing, because of pollution. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, such as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.4613686534 191% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1322.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 261.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06513409962 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0193898071 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42509668586 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.547892720307 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 401.4 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 28.4238749411 49.2860985944 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 73.4444444444 110.228320801 67% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.5 21.698381199 67% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.55555555556 7.06452816374 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.27373068433 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.331150848892 0.272083759551 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0949947217613 0.0996497079465 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0684942016196 0.0662205650399 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.192536094514 0.162205337803 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0338946123491 0.0443174109184 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 13.3589403974 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.73 53.8541721854 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.0289183223 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.53 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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