The cane toad is a large (1.8 kg) amphibian species native to Central and South America. It was deliberately introduced to Australia in 1935 with the expectation that it would protect farmers’ crops by eating harmful insects. Unfortunately, the toad multiplied rapidly, and a large cane toad population now threatens small native animals that are not pests. Several measures have been proposed to stop the spread of the cane toad in Australia.
One way to prevent the spread of the toad would be to build a national fence. A fence that blocks the advance of the toads will prevent them from moving into those parts of Australia that they have not yet colonized. This approach has been used before: a national fence was erected in the early part of the twentieth century to prevent the spread of rabbits, another animal species that was introduced in Australia from abroad and had a harmful impact on its native ecosystems.
Second, the toads could be captured and destroyed by volunteers. Cane toads can easily be caught in simple traps and can even be captured by hand. Young toads and cane toad eggs are even easier to gather and destroy, since they are restricted to the water. If the Australian government were to organize a campaign among Australian citizens to join forces to destroy the toads, the collective effort might stop the toad from spreading.
Third, researchers are developing a disease-causing virus to control the cane toad populations. This virus will be specially designed: although it will be able to infect a number of reptile and amphibian species, it will not harm most of the infected species; it will specifically harm only the cane toads. The virus will control the population of cane toads by preventing them from maturing and reproducing.
The article and the lecture have conflicting notions about whether or not the cane toad originated in Central and South America, brought to Australia to assist the farms by using them as harmful insect-eater. The author of the article strongly postulates that toad unwanted made many offsprings and to prevent the unfortunate spreading of these toads several measures have been taken. On the other hand, the lecture portion adamantly delineates this issue owing to the fact that it won't be easy to take successful measures for several compelling reasons.
To begin with, the author of the excerpt argues that constructing a national border can refrain from the progression of toads to invade the decolonized parts. The article mentions that this kind of initiative was used before to restrict the diffusion of rabbits. The specific argument is challenged by the speaker. She offsets the points by declaring that cane toads are often found in rivers and streams so, because of the flowing of water can't bind the populations of toads from going one side to the other side of the fence.
Secondly, the writer suggests that catching and destroying the toads by the volunteers can help to prevent the toads from stretching to larger areas. However, the professor rebuts this by mentioning that untrained volunteers can inadvertently damage native frog species which are endangered: it is quite difficult to differentiate between the younger toads and frogs as they are pretty much alike.
Finally, the author posits that researchers are working on diseases that can infect the virus to the reptiles and amphibians for maintaining the toad population at a minimal level. Moreover, in the article, it is stated that particularly it can harm only the toads. In contrast, the orator thinks that it will be a bad idea which can come up with terrible costs. Many reptiles and amphibians originated in Australia are transported to Central and South America for a specific purpose. If these animals are infected by viruses and carry them out to America the whole ecosystem will suffer. Consequently, the Virus attack may collapse the whole ecosystem.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 60, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
... lecture have conflicting notions about whether or not the cane toad originated in Central and...
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Line 5, column 442, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...ams so, because of the flowing of water cant bind the populations of toads from goin...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, finally, however, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, in contrast, kind of, to begin with, 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: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 30.3222958057 162% => 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: 1804.0 1373.03311258 131% => OK
No of words: 349.0 270.72406181 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16905444126 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32221490584 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73583006324 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 145.348785872 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.561604584527 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 559.8 419.366225166 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.0769312839 49.2860985944 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.266666667 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2666666667 21.698381199 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.8 7.06452816374 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 4.45695364238 247% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.217436339044 0.272083759551 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0640175708541 0.0996497079465 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0541859816219 0.0662205650399 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122390254122 0.162205337803 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0134049872529 0.0443174109184 30% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.48 8.42419426049 113% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 63.6247240618 163% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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