The article states that an invention called a turtle excluder device (TED) can solve the problem of dying sea turtles which caught in the shrimpers' nets. However, TEDs have been criticized for three reasons. The professor explains that TED is a good way of saving sea turtle and she refutes each of the reasons.
First, the reading argues that shrimp fishers argue that turtles rarely get trapped. Nevertheless, the professor refutes this point by stating that it is true that it rarely happens for one boat, but if you consider 1000 boats which exist in the southern coast, trapping 1000 sea turtles in a year, it is a big problem.
Second, the article claims that there are alternative methods of protecting sea turtles such as shortening the time limit that shrimp boats are allowed to keep their nets underwater. With this method, shrimpers have the opportunity to release the turtles from the nets. The professor contends that it is a good method in theory but it is not going to work. She adds that it is so hard to monitor the boats and see if they actually perform this method or not.
Third, the reading avers that TEDs are not effective for larger species of endangered sea turtles such as loggerhead and leatherback turtles which cannot fit through the escape passage that standard TEDs provide. The lecture opposes this point by saying that it is true that TEDs are small for larger turtles, but it is an effective way of saving sea turtles without harming shrimp fishers who can lose their shrimps.
- At the end of the Triassic period 200 million years ago, there was a mass-extinction event that caused the extinction of more than half of all living species. It was this extinction event that allowed dinosaurs to become the dominant species for the next 68
- Private collectors have been selling and buying fossils, the petrified remains of ancient organisms, ever since the eighteenth century. In recent years, however, the sale of fossils, particularly of dinosaurs and other large vertebrates, has grown into a 80
- Because the world is changing so quickly, people now are less happy or less satisfied with their lives than people were in the past. 66
- Young people nowadays do not give enough time to helping their communities 60
- For success in a future job, the ability to relate well to people is more important than studying hard in school. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 60
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, third, such as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 20.0 30.3222958057 66% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1259.0 1373.03311258 92% => OK
No of words: 262.0 270.72406181 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.80534351145 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02323427807 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.35322910013 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 145.348785872 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.526717557252 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 361.8 419.366225166 86% => 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: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.7357818762 49.2860985944 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.454545455 110.228320801 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8181818182 21.698381199 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.90909090909 7.06452816374 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.224166676919 0.272083759551 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0845807650709 0.0996497079465 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0536764835982 0.0662205650399 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133228920581 0.162205337803 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0149079202144 0.0443174109184 34% => 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: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => 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: 10.91 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 63.6247240618 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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