Integrated essay TOEFL, sea otter
The lecture opposes the main idea of the reading passage and logically disputes all the specific points that the reading presents. The reading states that sea otters population of the Alaskan coast rapidly declining, and it says that there are two hypotheses that can be the reason for this ecological event: environmental pollution or attacks by predators.
However, the professor in her lecture refutes this argument and challenges all the supportive reasons presented in the reading.
First, the lecture presents a different point of view about the first point in the reading section. The reading section mentions that pollution was caused by the sources along the Alaskan coast, such as oil rigs has increased the level of the chemical that could sicken the sea otters and make them more prone to infectious diseases and cause their death. In contrast, the lecturer claims that pollution hypothesis is weakened by the reason that there are no dead sea otters on the coastline of Alaskan, and she says that the decline of the population of sea otters is most likely by predators because they hunt the sea otters and they eat them so it is really hard to find the dead sea on the coast. So, the lecture presents an opposite explanation for it.
Secondly, the professor refers to the next point discussed in the reading. According to the reading passage, aside from sea otters, there is a decline in the population of the other sea mammals like sea lions and seals, so whatever is affecting the sea otters population decrease is affecting all the sea mammals as well. Nevertheless, the lecturer states that orcas originally feed on wales, but because of the increase in human hunting whales, orcas started eating other sea mammals as well. so there is a decline in their population as well as sea otters.
Finally, the lecture addresses the third point of the reading section. The reading claims that there is an uneven pattern in decreasing the population of sea otters, in some areas the population declines, and in some other areas it is stable. However, the lecture refutes this claim, explaining that this uneven patterns can be described by the pattern of hunting orca whales! They can not swim in shallow waters and in these areas the population remains the same but in the areas that are accessible to orcas the sea otter population declines as sea lions and seals.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 161, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'otters'' or 'otter's'?
Suggestion: otters'; otter's
...g presents. The reading states that sea otters population of the Alaskan coast rapidly...
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Line 1, column 360, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ntal pollution or attacks by predators. However, the professor in her lecture re...
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Line 4, column 253, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'otters'' or 'otter's'?
Suggestion: otters'; otter's
...seals, so whatever is affecting the sea otters population decrease is affecting all th...
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Line 4, column 494, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: So
...arted eating other sea mammals as well. so there is a decline in their population ...
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Line 5, column 568, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...lation declines as sea lions and seals.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, nevertheless, really, second, secondly, so, third, well, in contrast, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 5.01324503311 339% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1978.0 1373.03311258 144% => OK
No of words: 403.0 270.72406181 149% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.90818858561 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48049772903 4.04702891845 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52113577266 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 145.348785872 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.444168734491 0.540411800872 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 613.8 419.366225166 146% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 93.3622798893 49.2860985944 189% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.285714286 110.228320801 128% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.7857142857 21.698381199 133% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.78571428571 7.06452816374 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
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: 0.206233876843 0.272083759551 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0715531667618 0.0996497079465 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0834599007623 0.0662205650399 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114269766024 0.162205337803 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0753772876096 0.0443174109184 170% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 13.3589403974 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 53.8541721854 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.79 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.51 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 63.6247240618 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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