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Integrated writing : sugar consumption in USA
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According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), sugar consumption has increased almost every year since 1982. Sugar consumption has been rising at over 1.7 percent a year for the last few decades, higher than the U.S. population growth rate of about 0.8 percent. In the next ten years, total U.S. demand for sugars and sweeteners is expected to reach $10.4 billion. If the forecast is realized, sugar consumption will have risen by about one million tons during that time, implying a per capita increase of 2.5 pounds.
USDA guidelines state that the average American, wh...
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Sentence: The reading and the lecture disscuss in different ways about the amount of the sugar consumption in US.
Error: disscuss Suggestion: discuss
Sentence: The reports take into consideration the sugar porduction and consumption.
Error: porduction Suggestion: production
Sentence: Furthermore, the lecture states that the method for measuring sugar consumption in US population should include considerin economical consumption and the human consumption. this comparing provides more realistic results and through this consideration it can be seen that sugar consumption is much less than previously thought.
Error: considerin Suggestion: considering
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Score: 27 in 30
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 11 8
No. of Words: 191 150
No. of Characters: 955 800
No. of Different Words: 105 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.718 4.7
Average Word Length: 5 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.755 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 69 50
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 55 40
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 34 20
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 26 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.364 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.36 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.727 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.428 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.564 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.193 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 5