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 insects. Unfortunately, the toad multiplied rapidly, and a large cane toad population now threatens small native animals that are not pests. Several measures have been proposed to stop the spread of the cane toad in Australia.
One way to prevent the spread of the toad would be to build a national fence. 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. This approach has been used before: a national fence was erected in the early part of the twentieth century to prevent the spread of rabbits, another animal species that was introduced in Australia from abroad and had a harmful impact on its native ecosystems.
Second, the toads could be captured and destroyed by volunteers. Cane toads can easily be caught in simple traps and can even be captured by hand. Young toads and cane toad eggs are even easier to gather and destroy,since they are restricted to the water. If the Australian government were to organize a campaign among Australian citizens to join forces to destroy the toads, the collective effort might stop the toad from spreading.
Third, researchers are developing a disease-causing virus to control the cane toad populations. This virus will be specially designed: although it will be able to infect a number of reptile and amphibian species, it will not harm most of the infected species; it will specifically harm only the cane toads. The virus will control the population of cane toads by preventing them from maturing and reproducing.
Both reading and lecture discuss the methods of removing cane toad, which intentionally bring to Australia to protect farmers' crop. According to the reading, the author provides 3 competing methods to prevent spreading of the cane toad in Australia, including building a national fence, collecting by hands of volunteers, and developing a new virus to control cane toad. The lecture, on the other hand, rejects all three methods and brings up three reasons to support its idea.
Firstly, the reading asserts that building a national fence would be an effective way to stop the spread of cane toad. The lecturer, on the contrary, refutes this method by arguing that a fence would not stop spreading of the cane toad. Moreover, toad eggs and young toads live on the river an stream and no matter how is a fence they can pass the fence and go through it furthermore the river and stream would carry them to the other parts of Australia. Therefore, building a new fence would not be an effective method.
Secondly, The reading passage contends that volunteers can capture and destroy the toads by hands or in simple traps. The professor, however, says that the toads could have trapped by volunteers but may have negative effects. Moreover, the professor casts doubt on this way by saying that untrained volunteers may inadvertently hurt native frogs because the recognizing toad cone apart from frog is very difficult. Thus, the speaker rejects this method by providing the rational reasons.
Finally, the article points out that introducing a new virus to infect the toad cane would be a proper method. The lecturer, in contrast, asserts that this method is a bad idea and would be harmful to America. the professor says that because some of the harmed species transport, which are suffered from a disease-causing virus, by researcher or pet collector to America this virus would affect the cane toads in America and destroy them. Moreover, this destroying bring about an ecological disaster for America and if the cane toad eliminate, the whole ecology will be suffered.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 292, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
... eggs and young toads live on the river an stream and no matter how is a fence the...
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Line 7, column 211, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
...d idea and would be harmful to America. the professor says that because some of the...
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Line 7, column 243, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...merica. the professor says that because some of the harmed species transport, which are suf...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, apart from, in contrast, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 5.04856512141 257% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 5.01324503311 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1736.0 1373.03311258 126% => OK
No of words: 345.0 270.72406181 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03188405797 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3097767484 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6325575337 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.513043478261 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 519.3 419.366225166 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.0461434351 49.2860985944 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.733333333 110.228320801 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.2666666667 7.06452816374 159% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 4.45695364238 224% => Less 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: 0.500513067901 0.272083759551 184% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.179568056354 0.0996497079465 180% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.100001948528 0.0662205650399 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.300344309249 0.162205337803 185% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0736286948676 0.0443174109184 166% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 63.6247240618 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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