The man expresses his opinion about the proposal in the student's letter. Briefly summarize the proposal. Then state the man's opinion about the proposal and explain the reasons he gives for holding that opinion.
University Should Pave Running Trails
The university has about three miles of unpaved dirt running trails that pass through the forest near campus. I think these trails should be paved with cement. One reason for paving the trails would be to increase their safety. When it rains, the dirt turns to mud and becomes very slippery, so the runners who use them can slip and fall. Pavement would solve this problem. Also, paving would make the trails look nicer, which would encourage students to use them. Bumps in the trail would be smoothed out and weeds would be paved over, making the trail more attractive to runners.
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 624.0 593.389002037 105% => OK
No of words: 168.0 154.784114053 109% => OK
Chars per words: 3.71428571429 3.82920900774 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.60020574368 3.52088357496 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.71527749089 1.81998168104 94% => OK
Unique words: 110.0 93.7942973523 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.654761904762 0.608046397892 108% => OK
Syllable count: 202.5 185.724439919 109% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0684720519892 0.0833886788687 82% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.90020366599 77% => OK
Average paragraph length: 56.0 71.3690273242 78% => OK
STD paragraph length: 34.7658836601 24.1299301424 144% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 19.8933333333 26.8388033085 74% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 12.331535004 8.89323425527 139% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 38.0 40.266802444 94% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.42105263158 4.20756893501 105% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.12075350128 3.23972648638 127% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.49473684211 1.51236819293 99% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.08790657697 1.0352206224 105% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 35.0 37.9022403259 92% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.99 7.22384928717 111% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.228285714286 0.193825474362 118% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.183932995786 0.16431695912 112% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.72 46.6644602851 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.284047619048 0.304040633073 93% => OK
STD word duration: 0.156609303437 0.193491353168 81% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 8.88594704684 56% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.89 6.97134419552 56% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.87 3.21433808554 58% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.68 59.1375356415 101% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.994666666667 0.985625594026 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.586461126005 0.643888735843 91% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.81501340483 2.61565628039 108% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.84316353887 1.58604529434 116% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.3051131601 2.01333574461 114% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.316708922619 0.322651457988 98% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.