TPO-15 - Integrated Writing Task The cane toad is a large (1.8 kg) amphibian species native to Central and South America. It was deliberately introduced to Australia in 1935 with the expectation that it would protect farmers' crops by eating harmful insec

The reading passage discusses an interesting topic about different successful ways to combat the cane toad population introduced to Australia to protect the farmers'crop by eating harmful insects. However, the lecture casts doubt on how effective really are these options proposed by the reading passage. According to the lecture, far from being successful, these methods, not only would fail in their goal, but also, they would be very harmful.

First of all, the reading passage proposes to build a national fence arguing that a before fence implemented to stop the rabbit population had good results. On the other hand, the lecture, challenge this idea by explaining that the fence would be successful stopping adults toads, but not small ones or eggs that can be transported by streams. According to the lecture, the streams run through the fences will carry the anphibians to other areas.

Secondly, the lecture opposes to the idea, elaborated by the reading passage, of using volunteers. For instance, the volunteers would be untrained and probably would kill many other especies of toad that are necessary for the environment.

Finally, the use of a virus specifically harmful to the cane toad suggested by the reading passage, is contradicted by the lecture. She states how damage it could be if the virus reach South America where the cane toad is native. Moreover, she explains how the complete ecosystem would suffer as the toad is an essencial part of the food chain that would be broken.

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Average: 7.6 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, moreover, really, second, secondly, so, for instance, first of all, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 22.412803532 58% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1263.0 1373.03311258 92% => OK
No of words: 246.0 270.72406181 91% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13414634146 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96035189615 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6650457348 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.593495934959 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 386.1 419.366225166 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.1712874398 49.2860985944 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.818181818 110.228320801 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3636363636 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.3636363636 7.06452816374 161% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.342785908633 0.272083759551 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.124153667374 0.0996497079465 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0788677585129 0.0662205650399 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.196255195366 0.162205337803 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0756074556492 0.0443174109184 171% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.3589403974 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.77 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.9 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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