Both the reading and the lecture are about the overhunting of rhinoceroses by poachers because of their horns. While the author of the reading passage proposes some ideas to protect rhinoceroses and prevent poachers from hunting them, the professor disputes the suggested methods. She believes that each solution provided in the text has some weaknesses and flaws.
In the essay, the writer begins by saying that dehorning the rhinoceroses might protect them since they become less attractive to poachers. However, the professor disagrees with this idea. She asserts that dehorning the rhinoceroses is neither practical nor pleasing. Catching rhinoceroses in the wild and preparing them for surgery is so expensive. Besides, rhinoceroses' chances of survival would decrease if their horns were removed. They use their horns to dig for water, break branches for food, and protect their offspring and territory.
Furthermore, according to the article, those people buying rhinoceroses horns should be educated that these horns do not have any use in medicine, and recent research has shown that they are not valuable. On the other hand, the professor points out that educating people is unlikely to be effective. People use rhinoceroses horns as medicine on the ground of their ancient and strong beliefs. There is no chance to change their minds about their old beliefs by providing them with new scientific research and evidence.
Finally, the writer believes that if the government sales the horns that have been taken from the illegal hunters in the market instead of just stockpiling them, the price of rhinoceroses horns will decrease, and poachers will no longer be interested in hunting rhinoceroses. Not surprisingly, the professor refutes this claim by contending that many people do not buy these horns because they are illegal. Under these circumstances, many people would purchase horns, and demand for the horns would increase, which results in raising their price and encouraging poachers to hunt even more rhinoceroses.
To sum up, both the author and the lecturer hold conflicting views on the approaches to protect rhinoceroses from being overhunted.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, finally, furthermore, however, if, so, while, as to, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1838.0 1373.03311258 134% => OK
No of words: 340.0 270.72406181 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.40588235294 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29407602571 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79085878066 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 145.348785872 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.529411764706 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 551.7 419.366225166 132% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.245159803 49.2860985944 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.117647059 110.228320801 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 21.698381199 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.29411764706 7.06452816374 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
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: 0.238405404257 0.272083759551 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0754019182552 0.0996497079465 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.059494234925 0.0662205650399 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12265563853 0.162205337803 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0680179793777 0.0443174109184 153% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.2367328918 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 63.6247240618 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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