TPO 37- One of the threats to endangered sea turtle species is the use of nets by commercial shrimp-fishing boats. When turtles get accidentally caught in the nets, they cannot rise to the surface of the ocean to breathe, and they die. Some people suggest that this problem can be solved through an invention called a turtle excluder device (TED) that is incorporated into the nets. A TED provides a passage through which the turtles can escape. However, TEDs have been criticized for several reasons.
The lecturer challenges the topic proposed in the reading that TEDs have been criticized for several reasons. And she thinks that TEDs are supported by many scholars to solve the problem of turtles.
First, the article suggests that one shrimp boat accidentally catches about one turtle every month. However, the professor points out that there are thousands of shrimp boats and thousands of turtles are caught which includes endangered sea turtles. We should focus on how sea turtles as a whole are affected by the shrimp industry as a whole, rather than concentrating on individuals' impact.
Second, the essay supposes that there are alternative methods of protecting sea turtles that may be more effective than TEDs. But the lecturer considers that the time limit is impossible to enforce. The government cannot oversee the time limit of any single shrimp boat, so using TEDs is easier to supervise which could be executed by checking the net before shrimp boats leave the pool and whether they use TEDs.
Third, the passage indicates that TEDs are not effective for larger species of endangered sea turtles. Nevertheless, the professor argues that although large species cannot escape from the net, the TEDs could be modified according to their functions subsequently, which could allow turtles to escape. Then, this is no longer a problem.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, so, then, third
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 21.0 30.3222958057 69% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1133.0 1373.03311258 83% => OK
No of words: 218.0 270.72406181 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19724770642 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.84250218741 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58320017703 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 145.348785872 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.605504587156 0.540411800872 112% => OK
syllable_count: 342.9 419.366225166 82% => 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: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 77.9572532439 49.2860985944 158% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.888888889 110.228320801 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2222222222 21.698381199 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.44444444444 7.06452816374 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.228373243 0.272083759551 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0818991849535 0.0996497079465 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0687235152545 0.0662205650399 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118684040399 0.162205337803 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0790619554307 0.0443174109184 178% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.3589403974 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.03 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 63.6247240618 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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