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 that 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 could be thousands of turtles die in a year - it is enough to cause deadly disaster to the turtles since they have already been endangered animals and their population is tiny.
Besides, the lecturer casts doubt on the author's other reason that shrimpers shortening the time to keep the turtle in traps alive is one of the alternative methods more effective than TEDs. The lecturer demonstrates that this idea is just in theory and almost impossible to enforce because it will be difficult for the government to supervise all those shrimper ships dispersedly located on the vast sea.
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 is easy for us to modify the design of TEDs. Once produced, the shrimpers can use larger TEDs in areas where giant turtles live.
- 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 88
- TPO 36 integrated writing 80
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement When teachers assign projects on which students must work together the students learn much more effectively than when they are asked to work alone on projects Use specific reasons and examples to s 90
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Famous entertainers and athletes deserve to have more privacy than they have now Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 90
- Some people say that the Internet provides people with a lot of valuable information Others think access to much information creates problems Which view do you agree with Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 88
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, besides, finally, first, however, if, nevertheless, so, third
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1362.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 265.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13962264151 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03470204552 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60671389264 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.611320754717 0.540411800872 113% => OK
syllable_count: 420.3 419.366225166 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => 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: 33.0 21.2450331126 155% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 84.5543464288 49.2860985944 172% => OK
Chars per sentence: 170.25 110.228320801 154% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.125 21.698381199 153% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0 7.06452816374 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.253346429119 0.272083759551 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103954565293 0.0996497079465 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0832959593084 0.0662205650399 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14067161036 0.162205337803 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0629695363056 0.0443174109184 142% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.3 13.3589403974 144% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.98 53.8541721854 71% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 11.0289183223 147% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.21 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 10.498013245 145% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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