Sea otters are a small mammal that lives in the waters along North America s west coast from California to Alaska A few years ago some of the sea otter populations off of the Alaskan coast started to decline rapidly and raised several concerns because o

The reading and the lecture are both about the decrease in the population of sea animals called otters. The author of the reading passage feels that there are three explanations for the otter's deduction. However, the lecturer challenges these points. He is of the opinion that these explanations are faulty.

To begin with, the author asserts that the water in the Alaskan coast was contaminated namely because of the oil rigs which lowers the otter's immune systems, resulting in death. On the other hand, this concept is refuted by the lecturer which suggests that predators are to be the main cause for the death of otters. Additionally, he says that there are insufficient of otter's dead bodies on the beach and if otters are eaten away by predators, how can the otter's bodies are left floating on the water.

Another point the article puts on emphasis is that the reason why pollution is to be the cause is because of the fact which shows the decline of other animals as well. However, the professor contends this by saying otters eat whales for survival. But as whales have been abolished by the action of human poachers, otters had to eat other small mammals instead. He elaborates on this by bringing up the point that because otters have no options but to hunt tiny animals only, the population for other animals had to be dropped.

Finally, in contrast to the reading passage’s claim that the population of otters are different in places, in one place the numbers are stable while in others are remarkably declining as a result of ocean current, it is accentuated in the lecture that orcas cannot enter the shallow rocky to eat otters.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 187, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'otters'' or 'otter's'?
Suggestion: otters'; otter's
...at there are three explanations for the otters deduction. However, the lecturer challe...
^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, so, well, while, in contrast, as a result, in contrast to, to begin with, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 10.4613686534 201% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1373.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 285.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.81754385965 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10876417139 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48695952568 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.508771929825 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 432.9 419.366225166 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => 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: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.8847061814 49.2860985944 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.416666667 110.228320801 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.75 21.698381199 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.83333333333 7.06452816374 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.184288986218 0.272083759551 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0631307890032 0.0996497079465 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0468183946655 0.0662205650399 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.102804168923 0.162205337803 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0368057545706 0.0443174109184 83% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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