E-grader had reported a statement saying, "More topic words wanted."
What does this mean by more topic words?
Does this mean that, the repetition of topic question is needed?
http://www.testbig.com/ielts-writing-task-ii-ielts-academic-essays/biot…
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For example, if I wrote an essay about technological communicating devices, then do I have to mention about the word, 'technology', 'device', 'communication' and other substituting words for those?
Also, for the task 1, it has been asked to write more for the neutral topic and sentences. What does this mean and how to improve this score?
http://www.testbig.com/ielts-writing-task-i-ielts-academic-essays/chart…
Further to this, how does E-grader is marking for the Task 1 essays?
Thanks,
The meaning of 'Different words ' is the replaceable words?
Hi,
Thank you for the detailed information.
The meaning of 'Different words ' is the replaceable words?
Does this mean that e-grader only counts the differences between number of words and the different words within the essays in order to score the essays?
Thanks,
'Different words ' means
'Different words ' means Unique words in one essay. For example, in the sentence: 'People are people.' The total words: 3, while 'Different words': 2.
The e-grader will judge an essay by following attributes all together, not depend only on words, if any one attribute is too high or too low, the e-grader will give the warning messages, and they will affect the final score. There are over 50 attributes:
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.276995305164 0.247107183377 112% => OK
Verbs: 0.119718309859 0.155533422707 77% => OK
Adjectives: 0.115023474178 0.0946595960268 122% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0328638497653 0.0501214627716 66% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0140845070423 0.0437548338989 32% => OK
Prepositions: 0.12441314554 0.122226691241 102% => OK
Participles: 0.0446009389671 0.0403226058552 111% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.87298506955 2.80594681477 102% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0328638497653 0.0326793684256 101% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00163938923432 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.075117370892 0.0861772015684 87% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0281690140845 0.021408717616 132% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0093896713615 0.011925033212 79% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2329.0 1933.35771543 120% => OK
No of words: 360.0 316.048096192 114% => OK
Chars per words: 6.46944444444 6.12580529183 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35587717469 4.20517956788 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.436111111111 0.374742101984 116% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.341666666667 0.28420135186 120% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.25 0.203846283523 123% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.163888888889 0.137316102897 119% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87298506955 2.80594681477 102% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 176.037074148 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.561111111111 0.56093040696 100% => OK
Word variations: 62.8556612107 60.7387585426 103% => OK
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0891783567 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.5 20.7743622355 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.0771476546 49.517814964 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.5625 127.492653851 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5 20.7743622355 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.875 0.814263465372 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38877755511 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.99599198397 0% => OK
Readability: 56.6666666667 49.1944974215 115% => OK
Elegance: 2.67605633803 1.69124875643 158% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.338104053171 0.332605444948 102% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0990993499709 0.102741220458 96% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0494636951315 0.0668466124924 74% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.572181500855 0.534860350844 107% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.144661541124 0.148594505496 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.145196745415 0.134430193775 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0691451948537 0.0742795772207 93% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.354832072692 0.324371583561 109% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0330811852199 0.0638462369009 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.231755567071 0.228012699653 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0571756155981 0.058150111329 98% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.68436873747 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.41683366733 59% => OK
Positive topic words: 3.0 5.90881763527 51% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 2.5751503006 39% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 1.9629258517 51% => OK
Total topic words: 5.0 10.4468937876 48% => More topic words wanted.
Hi! been uploading my essay
Hi! been uploading my essay but its not graded what might be the problem .
The e-grader is on
The e-grader is on maintenance those days. It will be back soon.
'topic words' means some words are shared by all users. for example, 'technology', 'device', 'communication'. Those words may appear in a lot of essays.
Now suppose those words appear in your essays too, the e-grader will be happy to see them and give more credits. But if the e-grader can't find those 'topic words', it will ask 'More topic words wanted.'
This doesn't mean your essays are developed wrongly, while there are some reasons causing this: for example, the essay topic is something new with few users developed it before, like the topic you mentioned:
Biotechnology companies all over the world are developing different types of genetically modified (GM) crops. ...
few essays will deal with 'Biotechnology', 'modified (GM) crops' .....
so if you have this message 'More topic words wanted.' in other of your essays too, then it could be a problem, if it comes only in this essay, then it is not a problem.
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if the e-grader asked more 'neutral topic and sentences'. most likely you don't develop enough content. In task I, We are expecting:
No. of Words: 175 while No. of Different Words: 100
in task II, We are expecting:
No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
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Since e-grader can't understand the meaning of the words or ideas, it will judge the score by your language like: words, sentences, coherence...