TPO-26 - Integrated Writing Task The zebra mussel, a freshwater shellfish native to Eastern Europe, has long been spreading out from its original habitats and has now reached parts of North America. There are reasons to believe that this invasion cannot b

The article claims that the zebra mussel, which is a freshwater shellfish, can be spread in the North America and support three reasons of support. In contrast, the professor expresses we now can control the spreading the zebra mussel, which is impossible before; therefore, refutes each of the author's reasons.

First, the text claims that the way ships have spread the zebra mussel and this species will soon colonize all of North America. On the contrary, the speaker opposes this point by saying that ships can vacant their reservoirs before to reach the North America. So, this species can not travel with ships, and spread in North America.

Second, the reading mentions that the zebra mussel can dominate in new habits, because this species has not any a natural predators and high rate of reproduction. Conversely, the professor refutes this matter by expressing that the lack of food resources can lead birds to eat the zebra mussel. Hence, the zebra mussel can not dominate in the new habitat.

In the third place, the passage explains that zebra mussel can decrease the overall fish population because this species eats plankton, which is the main food for many freshwater fish species. In contrast, the lecturer states that the zebra mussel can impose negative effects on plankton, while it can have positive effects on freshwater fish. In fact, it could help to increase another fishes.

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Average: 8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 345, 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.
...ve positive effects on freshwater fish. In fact, it could help to increase another...
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Discourse Markers used:
['conversely', 'first', 'hence', 'second', 'so', 'therefore', 'third', 'while', 'in contrast', 'in fact', 'on the contrary', 'in the third place']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.293893129771 0.261695866417 112% => OK
Verbs: 0.129770992366 0.158904122519 82% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0610687022901 0.0723426182421 84% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0343511450382 0.0435111971325 79% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0152671755725 0.0277247811725 55% => OK
Prepositions: 0.118320610687 0.128828473217 92% => OK
Participles: 0.0190839694656 0.0370669169778 51% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.38791158339 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0114503816794 0.0208969081088 55% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.145038167939 0.128158765124 113% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0458015267176 0.0158828679856 288% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0114503816794 0.0114777025283 100% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1410.0 1645.83664459 86% => OK
No of words: 232.0 271.125827815 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.0775862069 6.08160592843 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.90276135726 4.04852973271 96% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.387931034483 0.374372842146 104% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.297413793103 0.287516216867 103% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.168103448276 0.187439937562 90% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0948275862069 0.113142543107 84% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38791158339 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 123.0 145.348785872 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.530172413793 0.539623497131 98% => OK
Word variations: 49.4258723121 53.8517498576 92% => OK
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0529801325 84% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0909090909 21.7502111507 97% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.0673122963 49.3711431718 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.181818182 132.220823453 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0909090909 21.7502111507 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.09090909091 0.878197800319 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.39072847682 29% => OK
Readability: 50.8322884013 50.5018328374 101% => OK
Elegance: 2.40425531915 1.90840788429 126% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.661136893018 0.549887131256 120% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.199013942862 0.142949733639 139% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0572913411651 0.0787303798458 73% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.696873340899 0.631733273073 110% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.162349740617 0.139662658121 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.351070973861 0.266732575781 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105456796726 0.103435571967 102% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.446035736944 0.414875509568 108% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.00212958912568 0.0530846634433 4% => Paragraphs are so close to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.502125358745 0.40443939384 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0303432819937 0.0528353158467 57% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.26048565121 94% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 3.49668874172 114% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.62251655629 83% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 3.1766004415 94% => OK
Total topic words: 10.0 10.2958057395 97% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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