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Essay topics

The lecture and the reading discuss the ways for stopping the spread of cane toads in Australia. The cane toads are native to America, and they have deliberately introduced to Australia in the past, but now it causes ecological problems in Australia. The writer states three proposed measures to remove cane toads from Australia. On the other hand, the lecturer raises doubt on these methods by providing her reasons. The detail of this contrast is explained in the following paragraphs.

First, the passage mentions that prevention of spreading cane toads would be achieved by building a national fence, and describes a similar previous experience with spreading rabbits in Australi. However, the speaker casts doubt on the feasibility of this approach, and claims that the eggs of cane toads and young ones commonly are in rivers and flowing streams. So they can go beyond the fence through these streams, and this method would not be helpful to prevent them from expansion in the other side of the fence.

Second, according to the text, the cane toad population could be controlled by employing volunteers to capture and destroy them. Conversely, the lecturer rejects this notion by stating that a huge number of hunters might be able to control cane toad increase, but the major problem with this method is that it would be difficult for an untrained hunter to distinguish the cane toads from Australian native frogs especially when both of the two species are young. So it might cause damage to native frogs.

finally, the article suggests that the researchers could produce a kind of virus to stop cane toads from maturation and fertilization. On the contrary, the professor thinks that this approach might end up terrible ecological consequences. The virus might be transmitted to American cane toad population by various means such as transferred toads from Australia to America by a researcher or pet collector. Since the cane toad is native to America, any threat to this species will adversely affect the whole ecosystem.

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Average: 8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 252, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...auses ecological problems in Australia. The writer states three proposed measures t...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Finally
... might cause damage to native frogs. finally, the article suggests that the research...
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Line 7, column 519, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...l adversely affect the whole ecosystem.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, finally, first, however, if, second, so, kind of, such as, on the contrary, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 30.3222958057 171% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1710.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 334.0 270.72406181 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11976047904 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27500489853 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69618051417 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 145.348785872 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.547904191617 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 515.7 419.366225166 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.51434878587 396% => 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: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.0240421209 49.2860985944 136% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.0 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2666666667 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.33333333333 7.06452816374 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 4.45695364238 224% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.588149771126 0.272083759551 216% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.200585591734 0.0996497079465 201% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.117534905872 0.0662205650399 177% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.369890262241 0.162205337803 228% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0364844698446 0.0443174109184 82% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 63.6247240618 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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