The lecturer refutes the arguments of the reading passage about how to control the population of the cane toad. The reading passage suggests three approaches to handle the population of the cane toad. However, the lecturer thinks each of those approaches will be unsuccessful and cause unexpected damage.
First, the reading passage proposes to build a national fence to prevent cane toads from spreading. However, the lecturer points out that it will not be effective because they can be found in rivers and streams. Their eggs can be carried through water easily and young cane toad can establish a new ecosystem beyond the fence. This contradicts what the reading passage suggests.
Second, the reading passage mentions that volunteers can contribute to decreasing the number of cane toads because cane toads can be easily caught using simple traps and by hands. However, the lecturer points out untrained volunteers may also destroy the native frogs if the government asks for volunteers’ help on catching the cane toads because it is not easy to tell cane toads and native frogs especially when they are young. The lecturer considers that volunteers would have a rather bad impact on the ecosystem.
Furthermore, the reading passage suggests using the virus which can prevent them from maturing and reproducing. However, the lecturer points out that viruses may cause a disaster in the areas where cane toads are national species even if the virus was initially used in Australia. If infected reptile and amphibian species are transported from Australia to other areas by researchers or pet collectors, the virus can be spread in other areas. If cane toads in the original habitat get infected by the virus, they will cause a terrible impact on the whole ecosystem because cane tods play an important role as one of the ecosystems there.
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Governments should spend more money in support of the arts than in support of athletics such as state sponsored Olympic teams Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 70
- Every year forest fires and severe stormscause a great deal of damage to forests in the northwestern United States One way of dealing with the aftermath of these disasters is called salvage logging which is the practice of removing dead trees from affecte 60
- TPO 54 The Salton Sea in California is actually a salty inland lake The level of salt in the lake s water what scientists call its salinity has been increasing steadily for years because the lake s water is evaporating faster than it is being repla 68
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement When people succeed it is entirely because of hard work Luck has nothing to do with their success Use specific reasons and examples to explain your position 78
- Genetic modification a process used to change an organism 039 s genes and hence its characteristics is now being used to improve trees Through genetic modification it is possible to create trees that produce more fruit grow faster or withstand adve 70
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, second, so, on the whole
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 5.04856512141 257% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 22.412803532 58% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1548.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 302.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12582781457 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1687104957 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59840747685 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.503311258278 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 477.9 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.0052018155 49.2860985944 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.571428571 110.228320801 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5714285714 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.21428571429 7.06452816374 74% => 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 : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.131549328469 0.272083759551 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.051119036442 0.0996497079465 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0380739174074 0.0662205650399 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0857637652616 0.162205337803 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0300036889204 0.0443174109184 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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