The lecture and the reading are both about factors of dwindiling sea otters population which inhabit along the western coastal area of North America. The author of the reading believes that decrease in number of the sea creatures is related to environmental matters. The lecturer casts doubt on claims made by the author. She considers predation as a main factor.
The author argues that water pollution causes death of otters. The article mentions that chemical substances which have been emitted to the water samples lead to an outbreak of fatal infections. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. She asserts absence of dead sea otters onshore means that any disease did not threaten them. Additionally, predators eat them as a whole, therefore, the sea animals do not wash up the coast.
The writer suggests that along the Alaskan coast declined critters are not only sea otters, but also seals as well as sea lions. According to the article if there is correlation between predation and decline, predators will be only orcas. Having said that orcas hunt primarily larger prey, especially other types of whales. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning human hunters. She elaborates on this by bringing up the point that since larger sea animals were killed by people, the orcas started eating small ones.
Finally, the author posits that level of death differs from one area to another. Moreover, it is stated in the passage that by virtue of variation in concentration of polluted water, in some places of the coast disappearence of sea otters was greater than others. In contrast, the lecturer feels that it depends on presence of orcas in the location. She points out that in the areas where orca can live decline was observed much more than in shallow and rocky places.
- 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. 75
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- image of Jane Austen 78
- Neighbors are the people who live near us. In your opinion, what type of neighbor is the best to have?-someone who is quiet-someone who we are similar to-someone who is supportive 70
- A recent study reveals that people especially young people are reading far less literature—novels, plays, and poems—than they used to. This is troubling because the trend has unfortunate effects for the reading public, for culture in general, and for 83
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 71, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'otters'' or 'otter's'?
Suggestion: otters'; otter's
...re both about factors of dwindiling sea otters population which inhabit along the west...
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Line 1, column 269, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...es is related to environmental matters. The lecturer casts doubt on claims made by ...
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Line 4, column 21, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ating small ones. Finally, the author posits that level of death differs from ...
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Line 4, column 471, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... more than in shallow and rocky places.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, moreover, so, therefore, well, in contrast, in fact, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 30.3222958057 148% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1508.0 1373.03311258 110% => OK
No of words: 300.0 270.72406181 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02666666667 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52453736136 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 145.348785872 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.62 0.540411800872 115% => OK
syllable_count: 467.1 419.366225166 111% => 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: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.8019809585 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.7777777778 110.228320801 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6666666667 21.698381199 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.33333333333 7.06452816374 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.109275280852 0.272083759551 40% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0303541903973 0.0996497079465 30% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0681021574604 0.0662205650399 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0723227830482 0.162205337803 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0419664254059 0.0443174109184 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 13.3589403974 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.75 8.42419426049 116% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 63.6247240618 159% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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