TPO 48 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 in which frogs live; for example, frogs help play a role in protecting humans by eating disease-carrying insects. Several methods have been proposed to solve the problem of declining frog populations.
The reading and lecture are both about the declining of frog population over the past years. The author of the reading believes that there are three possible solutions to the problem. However, the lecturer casts doubts about the claims made in the passage, saying that the methods offer impractical solution in the decline in frog population.
First of all, the author points out that majority are frogs are affected by usage of pesticide in the farms. The article notes that implementation of stricter rules with the widespread use of chemicals in land will drastically improve the population of frogs. Conversely, the point is challenged by the lecturer. She says that lowering the consumption of pesticides are not economical to local farmers due to they rely on pesticides for abundant crop harvest. Moreover, she argues that the farm land which is affected by the drop in population in frog will not to use chemicals because of strict policies implemented, so their yield will be fewer compared to other farms.
Secondly, the author contends that fungus are spreading to the immune system of the frogs causing them die from dehydration. On the contrary, the lecturer rebuts this argument. She suggests that anti-fungal application to frogs are not practical, each species needs to be applied with the medicine and its time consuming. Furthermore, she elaborates on this by mentioning that it is extremely difficult to capture frogs and anti-fungal needs to be reapplied every time. In addition, their off springs also needs to be treated with the fungus bacteria.
Finally, the author states that the decline in their population is because of their ecosystem are threatened. The article denotes that human play the crucial role on destroying their habitat by excessive use of their water and draining of wetlands. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that water use by people are not the biggest threat in their habitat. She puts forth the idea that global warming is the major cause in the destruction of their environment.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, in addition, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 30.3222958057 188% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 5.01324503311 279% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1708.0 1373.03311258 124% => OK
No of words: 334.0 270.72406181 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11377245509 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27500489853 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72270122118 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.523952095808 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 526.5 419.366225166 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.2339271303 49.2860985944 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.470588235 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6470588235 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.29411764706 7.06452816374 132% => 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 : 11.0 4.45695364238 247% => Less 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: 0.371734673772 0.272083759551 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104846181085 0.0996497079465 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0647813022455 0.0662205650399 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.19535680621 0.162205337803 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0192514529698 0.0443174109184 43% => 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: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.98 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 63.6247240618 146% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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