Sea otters
The reading passage and the lecture both discusses about the possible explanation to the decline of sea otters. According to the passage the root cause to this rapid decline is environmental pollution. In contrast, professor believes that this is caused due to attacks by predators. She proves her point by refuting each of the claims made in the reading.
First reason passage provides is there can be found sources of pollutants along the Alaskans coast, like oil rigs and there for argues that this environmental hazard is due to the pollution. Professor disagree with this point by stating that, there should be dead bodies of sea otters if they were died due to pollution and there is no such evidence has been found up to date. Furthermore she argues that this is due to predators hunt them and they eat them. She states that this coincide with the evidence found.
Secondly, passage states that there is a decline in other sea mammals and this can only possible if the pollution hypothesis is true. However professor states that, this declination can explain by predatory behavior of Orca. With the disappearance of whales, orca used to hunt other sea mammals and she claims that this explains the reason for declination of whole sea mammals.
Finally, reading explains about the uneven pattern of otter decline can be explained using pollution hypothesis and states that this is due to non-uniform distribution of pollutant. The professor contradicts with this point by saying that this pattern is not random. Moreover she explains that shallow sea do not show decline and other areas show rapid decline. She argue that this is due to predators like orca are significantly large animals and therefore they hunts only in non shallow regions.
In conclusion, the passage and lecture both try to prove two contradictory theories to explain declination of sea otters. Reading supports the pollution hypothesis, meanwhile professor champion predatory hypothesis.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 378, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Furthermore,
...uch evidence has been found up to date. Furthermore she argues that this is due to predator...
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Line 5, column 135, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...le if the pollution hypothesis is true. However professor states that, this declination...
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Line 7, column 268, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Moreover,
...saying that this pattern is not random. Moreover she explains that shallow sea do not sh...
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Line 7, column 367, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'She' must be used with a third-person verb: 'argues'.
Suggestion: argues
...and other areas show rapid decline. She argue that this is due to predators like orca...
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Line 7, column 464, Rule ID: NON3PRS_VERB[2]
Message: The pronoun 'they' must be used with a non-third-person form of a verb: 'hunt'
Suggestion: hunt
...cantly large animals and therefore they hunts only in non shallow regions. In con...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, in conclusion, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 22.412803532 165% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 5.01324503311 279% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1657.0 1373.03311258 121% => OK
No of words: 321.0 270.72406181 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16199376947 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23278547379 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7137371875 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 145.348785872 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.461059190031 0.540411800872 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 506.7 419.366225166 121% => 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: 3.0 8.23620309051 36% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.6984012167 49.2860985944 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.4705882353 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8823529412 21.698381199 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.23529411765 7.06452816374 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.11750029855 0.272083759551 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0440900881159 0.0996497079465 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.041458731368 0.0662205650399 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0748010273356 0.162205337803 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.022583295469 0.0443174109184 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.3589403974 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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