Both the reading and the lecture discuss Genetically Modified Foods, which is a technology that researchers use to change a certain crop's genes so it offers an economic benefit. The passage claims that GMF have many advantages over normal crops, so people should embrace them. However, the lecturer thinks that science sometimes is not entirely reliable as the text poses.
First, the passage compares genetic modification to selective breeding. The author mentions that these are basically the same, with the difference that the former is done in a quick time span whereas the later takes centuries, so we should not fear them. Nevertheless, the lecturer rebuts this argument, he suggests that the science is not as malleable as researchers claim. He says that scientists cannot change an organism genome and expect it to be as safe or stable as its natural version.
Second, the author of the text claims that GMF are safe to consume. The article posits that research publications go under "peer review" in which scholars from all the world replicate the same experiment and reassure that it is safe. Meanwhile, the speaker challenges this claim by pointing out that GMF studies are not even published so they cannot be reviewed. It is pointed out that because of fear of being plagiarized, genetic engineers do not publish their findings, making impossible for anyone to replicate them.
Finally, the reading asserts that modified foods are beneficial for a country's economy. especially in developing countries, they benefit from having crops that use fewer resources for combating famine and they do not have to rely on international loans. Nonetheless, the professor in the lectures shows that this is not the case, Because these countries do not have the infrastructure to distribute the food, even if they could create more efficient crops.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 109, Rule ID: USE_TO_VERB[1]
Message: Did you mean 'used'?
Suggestion: used
... which is a technology that researchers use to change a certain crops genes so it o...
^^^
Line 3, column 227, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... span whereas the later takes centuries, so we should not fear them. Nevertheless...
^^
Line 7, column 89, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Especially
... are beneficial for a countrys economy. especially in developing countries, they benefit f...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, nevertheless, nonetheless, second, so, whereas, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1573.0 1373.03311258 115% => OK
No of words: 300.0 270.72406181 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.24333333333 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76701804998 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 482.4 419.366225166 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.0642614269 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.357142857 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4285714286 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.21428571429 7.06452816374 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.15314306932 0.272083759551 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0466167641111 0.0996497079465 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.037502900864 0.0662205650399 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0874691178892 0.162205337803 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0395647958568 0.0443174109184 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.3589403974 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.31 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 63.6247240618 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.