In the given sets of materials, the main topic is whether predation or pollution caused the otter's population declined. While the author has focused on the explanation of how pollution could play a significant role on this trend, the speaker in the follow-up audio material cast doubt on those points by providing justifications.
The first point mentioned in the article is that due to industrial source of pollution near the coast, water samples have revealed the excessive amount of chemical substances which led to demise in otters. However, the speaker questioned this concept by stated that predation could be more logical to happen because of lack in clear evidence such as dead body in the beach.
Moreover, according to the essay, other population of the sea mammals decreased. Hence, environmental pollution had impact upon the whole ecosystem. Nonetheless, the lecturer has mentioned that when a vast major of whale hunted, other species like orca has changed its diet to survive. Therefore, the decline in others sea creature was axiomatic.
Last but not least, the writer stated that uneven pattern in otter population also could be explainable based on pollution hypothesis. Contamination along the sea area has made otter to spread erratically. Conversely, according to the lecture, some huge animals like orca were not able to access in shallow or rocky locations. So the population declined in these specific places.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 93, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'otters'' or 'otter's'?
Suggestion: otters'; otter's
...ether predation or pollution caused the otters population declined. While the author h...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'conversely', 'first', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'nonetheless', 'so', 'therefore', 'while', 'such as', 'on the whole']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.263779527559 0.261695866417 101% => OK
Verbs: 0.157480314961 0.158904122519 99% => OK
Adjectives: 0.110236220472 0.0723426182421 152% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0393700787402 0.0435111971325 90% => OK
Pronouns: 0.00393700787402 0.0277247811725 14% => Some pronouns wanted.
Prepositions: 0.145669291339 0.128828473217 113% => OK
Participles: 0.0551181102362 0.0370669169778 149% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.83368094825 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0314960629921 0.0208969081088 151% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.114173228346 0.128158765124 89% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.011811023622 0.0158828679856 74% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.011811023622 0.0114777025283 103% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1442.0 1645.83664459 88% => OK
No of words: 229.0 271.125827815 84% => OK
Chars per words: 6.29694323144 6.08160592843 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89008302616 4.04852973271 96% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.397379912664 0.374372842146 106% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.301310043668 0.287516216867 105% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.218340611354 0.187439937562 116% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.170305676856 0.113142543107 151% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83368094825 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.655021834061 0.539623497131 121% => OK
Word variations: 72.4684530122 53.8517498576 135% => OK
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0529801325 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0833333333 21.7502111507 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.0536582128 49.3711431718 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.166666667 132.220823453 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0833333333 21.7502111507 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.16666666667 0.878197800319 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.39072847682 29% => OK
Readability: 49.2143377001 50.5018328374 97% => OK
Elegance: 2.3137254902 1.90840788429 121% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.646936665927 0.549887131256 118% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0658905002296 0.142949733639 46% => Sentence sentence coherence is low.
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0436596162516 0.0787303798458 55% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.587118916823 0.631733273073 93% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.151663294262 0.139662658121 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.288353765861 0.266732575781 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0907066663576 0.103435571967 88% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.361592635044 0.414875509568 87% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.04142650785 0.0530846634433 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.448437591956 0.40443939384 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0477211103655 0.0528353158467 90% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.26048565121 188% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 2.0 3.49668874172 57% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 3.62251655629 28% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 8.0 3.1766004415 252% => OK
Total topic words: 11.0 10.2958057395 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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