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Using the examples from the lecture, discuss two types of narrators that an author of fiction might use.
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This speaking topic by users
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-23 | may82 | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-18 | Elena Cristina | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-12 | MinaSh | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-29 | Seema Modak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-05-05 | mghcivil | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Elena Cristina
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- Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which of the two solutions from the conversation you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation. 73
- 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. 80
- Explain how the experiment described by the professor illustrates the familiarity principle. 88
- Explain how the examples of tying shoes and learning to type demonstrate the principle of audience effects. 80
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 636.0 578.828451883 110% => OK
No of words: 159.0 151.265690377 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.0 3.82278263415 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55098862472 3.50058242952 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.92957778808 1.80425224433 107% => OK
Unique words: 106.0 92.4686192469 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.666666666667 0.61298525976 109% => OK
Syllable count: 189.9 182.283891213 104% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20543933054 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0913242009132 0.0839705835288 109% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.47071129707 45% => OK
Average paragraph length: 79.5 65.8948926009 121% => OK
STD paragraph length: 67.5 19.7758100068 341% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 29.79 25.5208953607 117% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 24.98 7.49434385956 333% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 28.0 42.9832635983 65% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.67857142857 3.78147595546 150% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.7706912158 2.94285465224 128% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.02285714286 1.39386743896 145% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.18321854382 0.967747756167 122% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 29.0 40.4456066946 72% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.09 7.59280334728 107% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.278965517241 0.19053887516 146% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.186369022651 0.157467062838 118% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.44 46.3453556485 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.298364779874 0.308780311121 97% => OK
STD word duration: 0.162011235785 0.201157623399 81% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 8.09623430962 111% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.65 6.56692468619 101% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.11 3.53066945607 60% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.58 59.5455230126 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.993 0.992425383543 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.486740516952 0.681803438845 71% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.66868076536 2.53813033465 105% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.77912051024 1.55221717717 115% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.23440134907 1.99939622689 112% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.330155352201 0.309613076454 107% => 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.