TPO-26 Integrated Writing
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 be stopped and that it poses a serious threat to freshwater fish populations in all of North America.
First, the history of the zebra mussel's spread suggests that the invasion might be unstoppable. It is a prime example of thinks made possible by human transportation. From the zebra mussel，s original habitats in Eastern Europe, ships helped spread it out along new canals built to connect Europe’s waterways. The mussel can attach itself to a ship’ s bottom or can survive in the water—called "ballast water"—that the ship needs to take on to properly balance its cargo. By the early nineteenth century, the mussel had spread to the whole of Europe. It was later carried to the east coast of North America in the ballast water of ships traveling from Europe. The way ships have spread the zebra mussel inthe past strongly suggests that the species will soon colonize all of North America.
Moreover, once zebra mussels are carried to a new habitat, theycan dominate it. They are a hardy species that does well under a variety of conditions, and they have a high rate of reproduction. Most important, however, zebra mussels often have no predators in their new habitats, and species without natural predators are likely to dominate their habitats.
Finally, zebra mussels are likely to cause a decline in the overall fish population in habitats where they become dominant. The mussels are plankton eaters, which means that they compete for food with many freshwater fish species.
The reading and the listening are about zebra mussel which lived many places and now start to live some parts of the North America. The writer claims that this invasion is an uncontrolled process and provides three reasons for supporting his opinion. The professor, on the contrary, refutes all reasons provides in the reading.
First, the writer posits that the way zebra mussel's covered the Eastern Europe indicates that zebra mussel invasion is kind of uncontrollable. But, the professor thinks this is not a serious problem for fish life; moreover, people of the past did not have enough knowledge to control the spreading of zebra mussel. He further suggests that if people changed their ship water by ocean water during their travel, they would have controlled the invasion of them.
Secondly, the author mentions that zebra mussels are likely able to dominate at a new location, so they would survive in any climatic condition. On the other hand, the lecturer rebuts this position by informing that in the past, since there was a harsh climate, so very few predatorial birds live in Europe, but in the North America, there are many birds that live that areas. Moreover, those predatory birds infect eat mussels. So, unlike in Europe, in North America zebra mussels may not become the dominating organism.
Finally, the reading claims that zebra mussels are responsible for reducing the total animals that live that place where zebra mussels become dominating. But, the professor opposes this and says that even though mussels influence on the living animals, they impact positively as well. He also states that zebra mussels ensure the required nutrient of the bottom-feeding fishes.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 252, 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.
...ree reasons for supporting his opinion. The professor, on the contrary, refutes all...
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Line 5, column 523, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...may not become the dominating organism. Finally, the reading claims that zebra m...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, well, kind of, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1424.0 1373.03311258 104% => OK
No of words: 276.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15942028986 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07593519647 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44822462669 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583333333333 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 441.9 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.957752714 49.2860985944 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.538461538 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2307692308 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06452816374 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.431218370761 0.272083759551 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.150883190265 0.0996497079465 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0904321435136 0.0662205650399 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.25446574376 0.162205337803 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0716609356425 0.0443174109184 162% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.08 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.