In the past century, the steady growth of the human population and the corresponding increase in agriculture and pesticide use have caused much harm to wildlife in the United States—birds in particular.
The reading passage suggests that the decline in the population of birds would be more and more serious in the future as the increase of agriculture and pesticide usage. The lecture speaker, however, holds different opinions counter the passage.
First of all, according to the passage, the expansion of human population and settlements would always harm the habitats of birds. On the other hand, the speaker argues that although the expansion of human did remove some of the habitats, it actually creates new habitats for birds. There are many birds whose habitat is in the urban area. Instead of decreasing, the bird population in cities are actually increasing.
Moreover, the passage states that the wilderness areas for bird habitats would continue to decline due to the growth of agriculture. In contrast, the lecture speaker claims that by the progress of agriculture, the production rate of crops now is more productive than before. Therefore, farmers would not need additional land to grow more crops.
Finally, the lecture gives another statement that more and more people are aware of the decline of birds population now. The chemical pesticides that are used nowadays are more environment-friendly than before. And the genetically modified crops, which are resistant to insects by themselves, are introduced in agriculture, consequently, pesticides are no longer needed to protect the crops.
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- Genetic modification 71
- 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. 60
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?In today's world it is more important to work quickly and risk making mistakes than to work slowly and make sure that everything is correct.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 3
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 218, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...hough the expansion of human did remove some of the habitats, it actually creates new habit...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, consequently, finally, first, however, if, moreover, so, therefore, as for, in contrast, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 22.412803532 36% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1194.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 221.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.40271493213 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.85565412703 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91939024759 2.5805825403 113% => OK
Unique words: 122.0 145.348785872 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.552036199095 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 379.8 419.366225166 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.7515722959 49.2860985944 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.5 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4166666667 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.8333333333 7.06452816374 153% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.158073425663 0.272083759551 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0583624088115 0.0996497079465 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0473435755749 0.0662205650399 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0951079315707 0.162205337803 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0271815767336 0.0443174109184 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 53.8541721854 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.04 12.2367328918 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.17 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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