The students discuss two possible solutions to the man's problem. Briefly summarize the problem. Then state which of the two solutions you prefer and explain why.
1. Hey Steve, did you get that book on the Russian Revolution professor Harper wants us to read?
2. No, one of the bookstores in the campus area had it in stock.
3. They will get it in about two weeks.
4. Hmm…so what are you goona do in the meantime?
5. Remember we are going to be discussing the book starting next Tuesday.
6. Well, I was thinking of placing a rush order with a bookseller on the internet, so I'd have the book in about a day or two.
7. Yeah, but rush order delivery is expensive.
8. You could easily spend twice as much money for the book that way.
9. I know, but what choice do I have?
10. Well since we only have to read a few chapters at a time, you are welcome to share my copy for a few weeks, you know, until you can get yours at the book store.
11. You mean, you would read the chapters assigned, give the book to me, I would read those chapter then give the book back to you to read the next set of chapters, and so on?
12. Exactly.
13. Thanks!
14. But, what if I don't get the book back to you in time?
15. Wouldn't you get behind your reading?
16. Yeah, maybe, but is should work if we are careful.
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 538.0 599.738853503 90% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 138.0 158.596602972 87% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.89855072464 3.77925476217 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.42743929552 3.54123138178 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.08267475413 1.79916674678 116% => OK
Unique words: 89.0 95.8789808917 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.644927536232 0.607024082132 106% => OK
Syllable count: 171.9 189.005732484 91% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19129511677 101% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.08834623784 0.0831539838537 106% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.29936305732 47% => OK
Average paragraph length: 69.0 70.8089261375 97% => OK
STD paragraph length: 34.0 23.6022091992 144% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 21.755 25.9380837976 84% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 10.305 8.54438981162 121% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 22.0 40.7070063694 54% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.27272727273 4.24305496596 148% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.61402819653 3.29867071766 140% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.83227272727 1.4825078846 124% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.07850878455 1.02222390891 106% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 24.0 38.0 63% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.32 7.14643312102 102% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.305 0.189447223375 161% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.232163735325 0.156783300276 148% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 33.09 46.7170700637 71% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.239782608696 0.297490414073 81% => OK
STD word duration: 0.130041617593 0.186336302485 70% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 2.0 7.29723991507 27% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 1.32 5.7916985138 23% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.42 3.38276008493 42% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 43.51 59.3491295117 73% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.725166666667 0.989152158528 73% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.551597333946 0.642608181899 86% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.17168467019 2.6701766005 119% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.04550678005 1.61481078811 127% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.68963433061 2.05366198651 131% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.368550992754 0.327712499341 112% => OK
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Rates: 63.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 19.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.