Both reading and lecture propose some methods to decrease the recent decline of frog population. The lecturer states that the solutions that the reading exposes are not practical, and he proposes different methods to slow down the decline of the frog population.
First, the reading suggests that pesticides used in farmland, which inevitably, spread into the neighboring frog habitats, harm the frog population. The lecturer contends that banning pesticide by law would cause an economic problem, and is unfair because this would create a disadvantage for farmers, who would be less competitive with those using pesticides.
Second, the reading mentions a treatment to prevent fungus infection, which causes thickening of the skin that leads frogs to die from dehydration. The lecturer rebuts this by saying that this method is not practical and expensive because this method has to be applied singularly on each individual, furthermore, this treatment does not prevent to pass the infection to the offspring, and therefore, it needs to be applied repeatedly through generations.
Third, the lecturer believes that the real threat of frog population is the global warming and it is not the loss of habitats as states by the reading, reduce the use of water by humans would not prevent the threat at of global warming.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, if, second, so, therefore, third, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1121.0 1373.03311258 82% => OK
No of words: 211.0 270.72406181 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.31279620853 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.81127787577 4.04702891845 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78805140022 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 121.0 145.348785872 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.57345971564 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 331.2 419.366225166 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 13.0662251656 54% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 30.0 21.2450331126 141% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 64.3916587322 49.2860985944 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 160.142857143 110.228320801 145% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.1428571429 21.698381199 139% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.14285714286 7.06452816374 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.360155662903 0.272083759551 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.183354326584 0.0996497079465 184% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.095061502569 0.0662205650399 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206855493403 0.162205337803 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0595071118285 0.0443174109184 134% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.7 13.3589403974 140% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.03 53.8541721854 76% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.0289183223 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.11 12.2367328918 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.61 8.42419426049 114% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 10.498013245 133% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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