TPO 23 Question 3 No More International News For the past few years the daily campus newspaper has included a one page international news section covering a few of the major stories in world news Starting next month the section will be eliminated One of t

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TPO 23 - Question 3

No More International News

For the past few years, the daily campus newspaper has included a one-page international news section covering a few of the major stories in world news. Starting next month, the section will be eliminated. One of the reasons the newspaper editors gave for the decision to cut the section is that other news sources are better able to provide wider and more up-to-date international news coverage. The editors also noted that the change would create space for a new calendar page that will list events and activities around campus.

The woman expresses her opinion about the plan announced in the article. Briefly summarize the plan. Then state her opinion about the plan and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion.

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Average: 9.5 (2 votes)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 724.0 593.389002037 122% => OK
No of words: 183.0 154.784114053 118% => OK
Chars per words: 3.95628415301 3.82920900774 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.67800887145 3.52088357496 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.02666685526 1.81998168104 111% => OK
Unique words: 113.0 93.7942973523 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.617486338798 0.608046397892 102% => OK
Syllable count: 229.5 185.724439919 124% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.139130548305 0.0833886788687 167% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 3.90020366599 103% => OK
Average paragraph length: 45.75 71.3690273242 64% => OK
STD paragraph length: 44.1326126578 24.1299301424 183% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 14.225 26.8388033085 53% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 12.3024479271 8.89323425527 138% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 34.0 40.266802444 84% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.38235294118 4.20756893501 128% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.87624683081 3.23972648638 181% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.57852941176 1.51236819293 104% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.34857469935 1.0352206224 130% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 34.0 37.9022403259 90% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.89 7.22384928717 95% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.202647058824 0.193825474362 105% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.17505140125 0.16431695912 107% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 44.82 46.6644602851 96% => OK
Average word duration: 0.244918032787 0.304040633073 81% => OK
STD word duration: 0.122865908749 0.193491353168 63% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 1.0 8.88594704684 11% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 0.65 6.97134419552 9% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.94 3.21433808554 91% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.9 59.1375356415 96% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.948333333333 0.985625594026 96% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.597539543058 0.643888735843 93% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.21616871705 2.61565628039 123% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.98594024605 1.58604529434 125% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.52119589469 2.01333574461 125% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.317090546448 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.