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.
The reading passage and lecture are both it is appropriate to use several ways to halt the consciously rapid growth of cane toad. The author strongly postulates that spreading an increase of toad population is detrimental to certain small native species even they are not dangerous pests so it has to be stopped by Australians. On the other hand, The listening adamantly delineates that those methods to abolish the toad's species will somehow ground failure because it will cause unpredictable destruction to the environment due to the several compelling reasons.
First and foremost, According to the author of the excerpt that they can construct a national barrier to limit the spread of toads throughout australia also this approach used before to halt the increase of rabbits which same as harmful to the local ecosystem too. Nonetheless, The professor offsets these points by declaring that it is true this way maybe give a presumed result to Australians but in the river system which flows one side to another bring them to another side of the lake so even a few toads can dramatically flourish in this area.
On top of this, in the lecture the professor elaborates the points by bringing up that inexperienced volunteers easily destroy native frogs and even endangered species because they look like very similar to cane toad for many external characteristics. these claims refute the writer's indications about another method is to using volunteers power to obliterate the toad of population biomass. Furthermore, the cane toad eggs are easy to collect and destroy them also they are simply trapped and be captured by bare hands without much effort.
The text lastly insists that spreading a disease-causing a little virus throughout australia is a very effective way to destroy them because it does not affect the other amphibian species but especially influence on the cane toad population significantly. Moreover, this virus inhibits them from growing and breeding as usual. The speaker in the lecture counters these implications by asserting that inventing virus can be fatal to the original habitat of this population in america because a lot of pet fanciers convey them to the Central and North america easily without any firm considerations so the native ecosystem may suffer a lot due to the virus development.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 417, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'toads'' or 'toad's'?
Suggestion: toads'; toad's
...eates that those methods to abolish the toads species will somehow ground failure bec...
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Line 3, column 252, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: These
...toad for many external characteristics. these claims refute the writers indications a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, if, lastly, look, may, moreover, nonetheless, so, as to, it is true, 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: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 53.0 30.3222958057 175% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1952.0 1373.03311258 142% => OK
No of words: 379.0 270.72406181 140% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15039577836 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41224685777 4.04702891845 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88507436817 2.5805825403 112% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 145.348785872 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.53562005277 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 621.9 419.366225166 148% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 34.0 21.2450331126 160% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 76.7745438183 49.2860985944 156% => OK
Chars per sentence: 177.454545455 110.228320801 161% => OK
Words per sentence: 34.4545454545 21.698381199 159% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.6363636364 7.06452816374 151% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.428549171292 0.272083759551 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.159431300086 0.0996497079465 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0562260835964 0.0662205650399 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.253568326369 0.162205337803 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0493247770012 0.0443174109184 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.1 13.3589403974 150% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.97 53.8541721854 69% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.6 11.0289183223 151% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.49 8.42419426049 113% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 63.6247240618 157% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.6 10.498013245 149% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 11.2008830022 152% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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