TPO-27 - Integrated Writing Task The little ice age was a period of unusually cold temperature in many parts of the world that lasted from about the year 1350 until 1900CE. There were unusually harsh winters, and glaciers grew larger in many areas. Scient

Writing and lecture are both about debating the causes that lead to the little ice age, which took place in the past. On the one side, the writer describes three plausible reasons for this. On the other side, the lecturer casts doubts on the claims made by the writer, saying that his arguments are somehow inaccurate when compared with recent knowledge.

First, the cooling was not caused by disrupting of ocean currents. The author states that when glaciers melted the water went to Gulf Stream, a region that has a significant impact on the planet's climate. However, the speaker refutes this idea, asserting that it affects only Europe and North America, while the little Ice Age occurred in Southern hemisphere as well, hence the speaker's theory does not stand up.

Second, volcanoes affects the climate only when their eruptions have catastrophic proportions, whereas there is no evidence of such monumental events. People would have noticed changes in the atmosphere or other meteorological phenomena such as gray snow, but there are no records about such situations. In other words, if volcanoes' activity is not strong enough, dust and sulfur does not cover the atmosphere for a long time, and therefore the climate is stable. So, this is a strong standpoint against passage.

Third, the population decrease only during a short period of time. The author suggest that when the human population started to go down, many places which were used for agriculture, were covered by forest, and because forests absorb carbon dioxide the temperature decreased. Anyway, the speaker rejects this by underlining that humans' number started to grow shortly after this crisis, and thus the forests were cut down pretty fast. Consequently, there was to little time for climate change to happen. To summarize, the speaker and the lecturer seem to be in total disagreement regarding this topic.

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Average: 9 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 189, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'planets'' or 'planet's'?
Suggestion: planets'; planet's
...on that has a significant impact on the planets climate. However, the speaker refutes t...
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Line 3, column 379, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'speakers'' or 'speaker's'?
Suggestion: speakers'; speaker's
... Southern hemisphere as well, hence the speakers theory does not stand up. Second, v...
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Line 7, column 52, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...population decrease only during a short period of time. The author suggest that when the human...
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Line 7, column 79, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'suggests'.
Suggestion: suggests
...ring a short period of time. The author suggest that when the human population started ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
anyway, but, consequently, first, hence, however, if, regarding, second, so, therefore, third, thus, well, whereas, while, as to, such as, in other words

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1586.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 307.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1661237785 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18585898806 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53833514047 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 145.348785872 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.628664495114 0.540411800872 116% => OK
syllable_count: 489.6 419.366225166 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.6922742306 49.2860985944 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.733333333 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4666666667 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.2 7.06452816374 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.306966430182 0.272083759551 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0919366624733 0.0996497079465 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0651392519219 0.0662205650399 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159778412392 0.162205337803 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.037666760311 0.0443174109184 85% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.41 8.42419426049 112% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 63.6247240618 146% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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