In the reading material, the author cites three reasons to criticize an invention called turtle excluder device (TED) for protecting endangered sea turtle species from the nets used by commercial shrimp-fishing boats. Nevertheless, the lecturer in the listening material argues that many scientists believe TED is an excellent protection method and opposes the reading material's reasons accordingly.
First and foremost, the author argues that using TED costs shrimp loss is too high, compared with the rare chance of saving one turtle from getting trapped. However, the lecturer offers the opposite opinion that there are thousands of shrimpers wandering on the sea. If one shrimper killed one turtle in one year, there can be thousands of turtles die in a year. Meanwhile, turtles have already been endangered animals and their population is small now - the accident catch by shrimpers can still cause serious problem on them.
Besides, the lecturer casts doubt on the author's other reason that shortening the time limit that shrimp boats are allowed to keep their nets underwater is one of the alternative methods more effective than TEDs. The lecturer demonstrates that the procedure is impractical. It is difficult for the government to enforce so many shrimpers follow the time limitation - to monitor thousands of shrimp boats outside the sea is impossible. By contrast, TEDs' use is more comfortable to enforce - all that required is checking the shrimp boats before they leave port and making sure their nets have TEDs.
Finally, the author's third reason that larger species cannot escape from the nets, even the nets equipped with TEDs, is also counteracted by the lecturer. The lecturer points out that it's not a problem to create TEDs that are somewhat larger since the their design are easy to modify without affecting its functions. Hence, if there are larger turtles, produce a suitable TED size, then the problem can be solved.
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- TOEFL T P O 42 Integrated Writing Task 3
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 248, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'their'?
Suggestion: the; their
...ate TEDs that are somewhat larger since the their design are easy to modify without affec...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, besides, finally, first, hence, however, if, nevertheless, so, still, then, third, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1629.0 1373.03311258 119% => OK
No of words: 312.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22115384615 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20279927342 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6347408621 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.570512820513 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 496.8 419.366225166 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
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: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 67.1417644162 49.2860985944 136% => OK
Chars per sentence: 148.090909091 110.228320801 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.3636363636 21.698381199 131% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.72727272727 7.06452816374 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => 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: 0.274045151518 0.272083759551 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0936029760007 0.0996497079465 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0866539409108 0.0662205650399 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148823655152 0.162205337803 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0585765586721 0.0443174109184 132% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.3 13.3589403974 130% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 53.8541721854 80% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.0289183223 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.02 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => 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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