Glass is a favored building material for modern architecture, yet it is also very dangerous for wild birds. Because they often cannot distinguish between glass and open air, millions of birds are harmed every year when they try to fly through glass windows. There are, however, several solutions that responsible businesses can use to prevent injuries to birds.
One-Way Glass
One solution is to replace the regular, clear glass with one-way glass that is transparent in only one direction. The occupants of the building can see out, but birds and others cannot see in. If birds cannot see through a window, they will understand that the glass forms a solid barrier and will not try to fly through it.
Colorful Designs
A second solution is to paint colorful lines or other designs on regular window glass. For example, a window could have a design of thin stripes painted over the glass. People would still be able to see through the openings in the design where there is no paint, while birds would see the stripes and thus avoid trying to fly through the glass. Architects can be encouraged to include colorful painted patterns on glass as part of the general design of buildings.
Magnetic Field
The third solution is to create an artificial magnetic field to guide birds away from buildings. Humans use an instrument called a magnetic compass to determine directions—either north, south, east, or west. Bird research has shown that birds have a natural ability to sense Earth's magnetic fields; this ability works just like a compass, and it helps birds navigate in the right direction when they fly. A building in a bird flight path can be equipped with powerful electromagnets that emit magnetic signals that steer birds in a direction away from the building.
The reading and the lecture are both about the glass used in modern architecture causes dangerous problems for birds. While the author of the article argues that three solutions can help to prevent injuries to birds, the lecturer disputes the claims mentioned in the article. His position is that all three solutions are fail to solve the problems for birds.
First, the reading claims that one-way glass can help birds to understand that this is a solid barrier and try not to fly through it. However, the lecturer refutes this point by saying that one-way glass is as similar as mirror, and birds can not distinguish it from sky. Therefore, birds will still injure by fly through one-way glass window.
Second, the article points out that colorful designs on glass can not only help birds to see the strips and avoid them from flying through, but also be able to let people to see through the opening window. In contrast, the lecturer argues that even though the colorful designs on window glass will help birds to see the differences, birds will fly through the unpainted glass as open holes and get hurt. Also, if architects did paint the glass, they need to paint the large part of it from preventing birds flying through, but the this might make the indoor building dark.
Third, the author notes that create an artificial magnetic field to guide birds away from buildings. On the other hand, the professor opposed this point by explaining that birds only use this system for long distance, when they travel in short distance they use their eyes and brightness to fly. Therefore, powerful electromagnets is a useless method.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 528, Rule ID: DT_DT[2]
Message: Maybe you need to remove the second determiner so that only 'the' or 'this' is left.
Suggestion: the; this
...om preventing birds flying through, but the this might make the indoor building dark. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, so, still, therefore, third, while, in contrast, in short, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => 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: 1361.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 279.0 270.72406181 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87813620072 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08696624509 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.31901580487 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.534050179211 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 383.4 419.366225166 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.8694405761 49.2860985944 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.416666667 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.25 21.698381199 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.58333333333 7.06452816374 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
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: 0.354476374067 0.272083759551 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.129992392109 0.0996497079465 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0824953800577 0.0662205650399 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.192827062547 0.162205337803 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0768645082065 0.0443174109184 173% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 53.8541721854 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.83 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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