The Sea Otter
The article states that there is a declining sea otters population due to environmental pollution and provides three reasons to support it. However, the professor explains that, due to the ongoing investigation, the most likely cost of this phenomenon is actually predation and refutes each of the author’s reasons.
First, the reading states that there is an increasing level of chemicals that is detrimental to the sea otters’ immune system. The professor refutes this point by providing the fact that there were no dead sea otters found at the shore. This indicates that, instead of the reason stated in the article, they were most likely got eaten.
Second, the article claims that sea otter is not the only species facing a decline in population. In fact, other sea mammals in the same area are having the same problem as environmental pollution affects the entire ecosystem. The professor refutes this point by stating that it is because those sea mammals are orcas’ prey. He said orcas used to hunt whales before but as most whales were hunted down by humans, orcas had to look for alternatives which are sea mammals.
Third, the article reading avers that an uneven pattern of population decline is the effect of water currents, which swirl and create an uneven chemical concentration. The lecture opposes this point by providing evidence that there is a stable population of sea otters located in shallow and rocky areas. He explains that the reason is that orcas cannot access that area due to its large body size.
In conclusion, although the reading and the lecture are both about a declining sea otters population, three main points in the reading are effectively challenged by the lecturer.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 50, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'otters'' or 'otter's'?
Suggestion: otters'; otter's
...le states that there is a declining sea otters population due to environmental polluti...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...cle, they were most likely got eaten. Second, the article claims that sea otte...
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Line 17, column 84, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'otters'' or 'otter's'?
Suggestion: otters'; otter's
... lecture are both about a declining sea otters population, three main points in the re...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, however, look, second, so, third, in conclusion, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1460.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 284.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14084507042 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10515524023 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69028832278 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 145.348785872 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517605633803 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 454.5 419.366225166 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.3703146836 49.2860985944 60% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 112.307692308 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8461538462 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06452816374 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => 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: 0.367266544812 0.272083759551 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.154298886604 0.0996497079465 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.12677649192 0.0662205650399 191% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.227940334774 0.162205337803 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0619766371756 0.0443174109184 140% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.63 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.