The reading and the lecture are both about the wild birds. The article states that modern architecture is using glass for constructing buildings, which causes harm to many birds and provides three solutions for support. However, the lecturer says that these solutions cannot stop birds from flying through the glass and refutes each of the author's points.
First, the article conveys that replacing the clear glass with one-way glass would be one solution to avoid injuries to birds. On the other hand, the lecturer refutes this point by saying that the one-way glass would appear like a mirror and it reflects the images. Moreover, the birds see the images like sky and trees when the glass is reflected and fly into it, which is more dangerous than the normal one.
Second, the text explains that another solution is to paint stripes on the glass where the bird can see it like a solid and stops flying into it. However, the lecturer opposes this point by saying that the birds perceive them as open holes and would fly through it.
Third, the article claims that one more solution is to create an artificial magnetic field which guides the birds to fly away from the buildings. Nevertheless, the lecturer says that the magnetic field in the birds will help them to travel long distances like when they move or migrate from cold weathers to warm. In addition, this field would not be used for shorter distance. They see with their eyes and by using brightness to travel a shorter distance. Hence, this solution would not have much effect on birds.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, hence, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, second, so, third, in addition, 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: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1291.0 1373.03311258 94% => OK
No of words: 268.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.8171641791 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04607285448 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.1914995817 2.5805825403 85% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.518656716418 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 369.0 419.366225166 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.177722058 49.2860985944 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.3076923077 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6153846154 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.69230769231 7.06452816374 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.49769788241 0.272083759551 183% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.176367382474 0.0996497079465 177% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0853011967587 0.0662205650399 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.31136714936 0.162205337803 192% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0240900899831 0.0443174109184 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 53.8541721854 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 12.2367328918 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.4 8.42419426049 88% => OK
difficult_words: 47.0 63.6247240618 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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