the sea otter
The reading and the listening materials have a conflict of opinions about the cause of the decline of the sea otter which lives in the water of the western coast of North America from California to Alaska. The reading passage explains that the environmental pollution is a key factor in this issue. On the other hand, the speaker in the lecture indicates that the predators play a major role and she refers to three reasons.
First of all, the professor makes it clear that there are not found any dead otter on the beach so that it is obvious that the pollution cannot reason for this issue. In contrast, the writer in the passage refers to this fact the water samples revealed that the level of the pollution increases a lot in comparison to the past.
Second, the lecturer in the listening passage clarifies that the predator of the sea otter hunts the smaller mammals like the sea otter. Because they prefer to eat whales which are hunted by humans so that they have to prey small mammals. By contrast, the author holds the opposite view that due to environmental pollution, the population of different mammals is decreased and it has a bad impact on the ecosystem.
As a final point, the speaker believes that the uneven pattern of otter decline due to the predators that they are very large so that they cannot go to the rocky place and prey the otters. Thus, the otters are found a lot in the rocky or shallow places, but they are hunted by their predators in other places. On the contrary, the writer suggests that the pollution has a responsibility for the uneven pattern of otter decline.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, second, so, thus, in contrast, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1325.0 1373.03311258 97% => OK
No of words: 285.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.64912280702 5.08290768461 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10876417139 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44260430473 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.477192982456 0.540411800872 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 414.0 419.366225166 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => 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: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.2148071786 49.2860985944 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.454545455 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.9090909091 21.698381199 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.63636363636 7.06452816374 122% => 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 : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => 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: 0.290296855424 0.272083759551 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108131103578 0.0996497079465 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.152892651628 0.0662205650399 231% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.166253145457 0.162205337803 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.078341613357 0.0443174109184 177% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.99 12.2367328918 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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