The reading and the lecture are both about the solutions to eradicate the disease of malaria. The author of the article feels that three main strategies could lead to the eradication of malaria. However, the lecturer disputes the claims made in the text. His position is that the three main strategies mentioned in the reading seem very unlikely.
According to the reading, one strategy that could fight the malaria parasite is treating patients with potent doses of prescription medicines. The article mentions that testing patients could identify the strain of parasites present in malaria since they have different origins. Therefore, the author states that this could be a way to combat the symptoms and find a suitable medicine to cure this infection. The lecturer challenges this specific argument. He claims that there are no drugs that could completely cure malaria. He specifically points out that most mosquitoes are already immune to the available drugs.
Secondly, the author suggests the second strategy to wipe out the mosquitoes that transfer parasites to humans. The author suggests common ways of using chemical sprays or releasing fish populations into the water that prey on the larvae before they grow into adults. The lecturer, however, asserts that adult mosquitoes can fly and that it would be strenuous and unlikely to reach all the population.
Finally, the author posits the third strategy of using "Sterile" to prevent insects from reproducing. It leads the females that mate with sterile males to produce eggs that do not hatch. The author implies that this would cause the mosquitoes to die out and that this strategy has wiped out numerous other insects. The lecturer's stance is that although this is effective and harmless for humans, sterilized males do not mate enough to make the mosquitoes die out. As a result, he observes that this method would be ineffective in eradicating an abundance of mosquitos.
To sum up, although both the reading and listening passages talk about procedures to reduce the chances of malaria by decreasing the number of mosquitoes, they conclude with conflicting views and details. Moreover, the sources will have difficulty finding common ground on the matters, and the comments made by the speaker effectively challenge the writer.
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is better to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize in one specific subject 90
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is better to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize in one specific subject 3
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is better to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize in one specific subject 78
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is better to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize in one specific subject 90
- Brendan the Navigator was an Irish priest who lived in the 6th century He is most famous for embarking on a voyage in search of the mythical Island of the Blessed The details of Brendan s voyage recorded as stories in old manuscripts suggest to some that 94
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 330, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'lecturers'' or 'lecturer's'?
Suggestion: lecturers'; lecturer's
...s wiped out numerous other insects. The lecturers stance is that although this is effecti...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, as a result, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 30.3222958057 162% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1950.0 1373.03311258 142% => OK
No of words: 369.0 270.72406181 136% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.28455284553 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38284983912 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72374576458 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 145.348785872 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.544715447154 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 596.7 419.366225166 142% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.4585723802 49.2860985944 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.5 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.45 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.7 7.06452816374 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.120280983267 0.272083759551 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0367704525288 0.0996497079465 37% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0313157844665 0.0662205650399 47% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0626880779406 0.162205337803 39% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0261140910929 0.0443174109184 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.11 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 63.6247240618 168% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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