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 the lecture both discuss the negative effects of cane toad in austrailia. In the reading passage, the author mentions that while cane toads intruduced from south America to austrailia, their populations increased rapidly and caused a serious treatment for small native animals instead of insects and pests. In the listening part, however, the speaker challenges the what the author states and refutes the reasons.
To begin with, as mentioned in the article, the writer sets forth that national fences can control moving of cane toads to colonize on the other side of the Australia; nevertheless, the professor rebutes the reasons asserting that control of population of these animal will not be easy to rid of, causing national damage. Indeed, although fences are a national ban for mature frogs, their eggs and young one's can carry through the fences; therefore, fences could not be effective.
Secondly,the author points out that individuals and residents can capture and ruin them easy, nontheless, the speaker flatly contradicts the reasons and contends that this species is difficult to distinguish by people and maybe they captured other amphibian, so do destroy other ones too.
Finally, the author claims that scientists discover a virus which is control cane toads and kill them although it has effect on reptiles too. In contrast, the professor is of the opinion that the virus could be transported by pet collectors to native homeland of cane toads, hence it could devastated the national specious. therefore, whole ecosystem would be suffered by this virus.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 153, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... passage, the author mentions that while cane toads intruduced from south America...
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Line 9, column 9, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , the
...es could not be effective. Secondly,the author points out that individuals and ...
^^^^
Line 13, column 291, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'could' requires the base form of the verb: 'devastate'
Suggestion: devastate
... homeland of cane toads, hence it could devastated the national specious. therefore, whole...
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Line 13, column 325, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Therefore
...could devastated the national specious. therefore, whole ecosystem would be suffered by t...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, hence, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => 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: 1355.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 255.0 270.72406181 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.3137254902 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99608801488 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63678762534 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.6 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 405.9 419.366225166 97% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => 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: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 83.8132845477 49.2860985944 170% => OK
Chars per sentence: 150.555555556 110.228320801 137% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.3333333333 21.698381199 131% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.2222222222 7.06452816374 187% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.377452586626 0.272083759551 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.138857329137 0.0996497079465 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0679237247811 0.0662205650399 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.200818979014 0.162205337803 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0768772603406 0.0443174109184 173% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.7 13.3589403974 132% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 53.8541721854 80% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.0289183223 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.73 8.42419426049 116% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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