TPO 15,Cane toads

Essay topics

The reading and the lecture both discuss the cane toad and its rabid spread and multiplication that causes harm to the other small native animals that are not pests. The reading discusses three possible solutions to control the growth which the lecture refutes every one of them.

First, the reading claimes that one solution is to build a national fence to prevent the cane toad from crossing into the other unaffected areas in Australia. The lecturer opposes this, by saying that as the water stream in the waterways will continue to flow. The young toads and eggs most possibly carried out by the stream past the fence and reach to the unharmed areas. The lecturer also said even a few eggs and young toads are able to multiplicate and form a population.

Second, the Reading presents the argument that cane toads can be captured and eliminated by volunteers. It also claimes that the young toads and eggs are even easier to be collected and then destroyed. The lecturer counters this argument by saying that this will inadvertently destroy the endangered toads and frogs. The untrained volunteers might not be able to distinguish between the cane toads and other frogs especially when they are young.

Lastly, the reading suggests that the ongoing development of a disease-causing virus by the researchers that will aid to eliminate the cane toads in the area could be a solution. The professor in the lecture refutes this. She said that this will be a bad idea because it will have a horrible consequences in the natural habitat of the cane toads in central and south America. The infected toads might be transferred to the cane toads natural habitat by researchers or pet collectors and this will devastate the population and harm the ecosystem badly.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
Essay Categories

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 375, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... fence and reach to the unharmed areas. The lecturer also said even a few eggs and ...
^^^
Line 7, column 293, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'consequence'?
Suggestion: consequence
...ad idea because it will have a horrible consequences in the natural habitat of the cane toad...
^^^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, lastly, second, so, then

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 7.30242825607 219% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1469.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 298.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92953020134 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62496125736 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489932885906 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 446.4 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.3329978765 49.2860985944 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.928571429 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2857142857 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.64285714286 7.06452816374 37% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.528795460188 0.272083759551 194% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.192814198827 0.0996497079465 193% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101090925312 0.0662205650399 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.324049889211 0.162205337803 200% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0975060836633 0.0443174109184 220% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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