TPO-48 - Integrated Writing Task In recent years, many frog species around the world have declined in numbers or even gone extinct due to changes in their environment. These population declines and extinctions have serious consequences for the ecosystems

Essay topics

In recent years, many frog species around the world have declined in numbers or even gone extinct due to changes in their environment. The reading passage proposes several methods to solve the problem of declining frog populations. However, the lecture holds a different view that none of these methods are practical to solve the problems.

First of all, the reading passage says that frogs are being harmed by pesticides, and if laws prohibited the farmers from using harming pesticides near sensitive frog populations, it would significantly reduce the harm pesticides cause to frogs. The lecture refutes the idea completely. The pesticides are used to kill the pests which threat the ecosystem. If farmers do follow the regulations and stop using pesticides, they will suffer great crop losses, and the ecosystem will lose balance.

What's more, the reading passage points out that a second major factor in frog population decline is a fungus which causes thickening of the frogs' skin.So we human should apply treatments that kill the fungus with heat to frogs on a large scale.But the lecture argues that the treatment would be applied individually which would be complicated and expensive.

Last but not least, the reading passage claims that key water habitats were better protected from excessive water use and development, many frog species would recover. But the lecture challenges the view by stating the major cause to the decline of their natural habitats is global warming.

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Average: 8.5 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 60, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...eading passage says that frogs are being harmed by pesticides, and if laws prohib...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
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Suggestion: What's
...and the ecosystem will lose balance. Whats more, the reading passage points out th...
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Line 5, column 152, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: So
...ich causes thickening of the frogs skin.So we human should apply treatments that ...
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Line 5, column 176, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... the frogs skin.So we human should apply treatments that kill the fungus with hea...
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Line 5, column 246, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: But
...gus with heat to frogs on a large scale.But the lecture argues that the treatment w...
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Line 5, column 317, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... treatment would be applied individually which would be complicated and expensive...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, second, so, first of all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1256.0 1373.03311258 91% => OK
No of words: 239.0 270.72406181 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25523012552 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.93187294222 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61549452503 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.598326359833 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 382.5 419.366225166 91% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 88.1988662059 49.2860985944 179% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.6 110.228320801 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.9 21.698381199 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.9 7.06452816374 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.58613116776 0.272083759551 215% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.200431153127 0.0996497079465 201% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.14542155944 0.0662205650399 220% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.337709058882 0.162205337803 208% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0206983757993 0.0443174109184 47% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 13.3589403974 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.87 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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