Although the sale of rhinoceros horns is illegal worldwide rhinoceroses Rhinos are commonly poached hunted illegally for their horns which can be sold for tens of thousands of dollars per kilogram Rhino horns are so valuable that one type of rhino is alre

According to the reading passage, it is stated that rhinoceroses population are under danger of extinction because of the overhunting of it by poachers, who are attracted to their horns. To tackle this issue, the passage proposes several ideas. However, the lecturer states why the assumptions mentioned in the article were not correct and refutes them by describing three reasons as follows.
Firstly, the reading claims that experts can dehorn Rhinos by the help of medical equipments and drugs to kill off poachers' interest in these animals' horns. The professor casts doubt on this point by saying that Rhinos use their horns to guid and protect their young and territory. She states that even if there is enough time and money available to dehorn Rhinos, implementing it would be neither practical nor good for these animals.
Secondly, the article posits that since the Rhino horn is considered valuable because of its Keratin amount, educating the society about Keratin's insignificant health value, can decrease consumption of it. In contrast, the professor says that some people have strong cultural beliefs about the healing value of horns. Thus, this strategy can be feasible among individuals who do not have strong ideas; but for others who have intense beliefs it would be unlikely to change their minds.
Finally, the reading says that another possibility for preserving Rhino community is legalization of rhino horn sales by government. The professor opposes this point by explaining that if rhino horn sales become legal, most people will consider buying it acceptable and the demand for it will grow dramatically. As the demand rises, the price of antler will increase. Eventually, price escalation instigates poachers to keep killing Rhinos.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
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... describing three reasons as follows. Firstly, the reading claims that experts...
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... practical nor good for these animals. Secondly, the article posits that since ...
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...uld be unlikely to change their minds. Finally, the reading says that another p...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, thus, in contrast

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1482.0 1373.03311258 108% => OK
No of words: 280.0 270.72406181 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29285714286 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09062348924 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64262547247 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.603571428571 0.540411800872 112% => OK
syllable_count: 456.3 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.76530854 49.2860985944 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.0 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5384615385 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.30769230769 7.06452816374 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.24557812501 0.272083759551 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0763519157501 0.0996497079465 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0840531998997 0.0662205650399 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136895193674 0.162205337803 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.072029855679 0.0443174109184 163% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.3589403974 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.4 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.47 8.42419426049 112% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 63.6247240618 134% => 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: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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