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 of

The reading and the lecture are both about sea otters and decline in the population. The author of the reading feels that sea otters are dead to oil and hunters. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. He is of the opinion that sea otters dead flowing on the sea. If predators eat sea otters they did not flow into the sea.

To begin with, the author argues that sea otters are dead because of oil. The article mentions that the oil flows along the Alaskan coast such as oil rigs. The specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims washing away on the coast. Additionally, he says that if the reason is correct why other animals are not dead.

Secondly, the writer suggests predators hunt while human hungers. In the article, it is said that only predators that occurred in a large area. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning if sea otters are dead by predators, why other animals are not dead.

Finally, the author posits that sciences believed the pollution hypothesis would also explain the uneven pattern of otter decline. In contrast, the lecturer’s position is the otter’s death is caused by ocean current and not by the pollutants.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 163, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...sea otters are dead to oil and hunters. The lecturer challenges the claims made by ...
^^^
Line 1, column 280, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...hat sea otters dead flowing on the sea. If predators eat sea otters they did not f...
^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, while, in contrast, such as, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 987.0 1373.03311258 72% => OK
No of words: 205.0 270.72406181 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.81463414634 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.78388967377 4.04702891845 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43431740931 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 112.0 145.348785872 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.546341463415 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 298.8 419.366225166 71% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => 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: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 21.2450331126 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 25.2001763662 49.2860985944 51% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 65.8 110.228320801 60% => More chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 13.6666666667 21.698381199 63% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.46666666667 7.06452816374 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.229365935964 0.272083759551 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0828736997008 0.0996497079465 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.072531036124 0.0662205650399 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13001566368 0.162205337803 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0704147846006 0.0443174109184 159% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.1 13.3589403974 61% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.74 53.8541721854 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 11.0289183223 65% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.03 12.2367328918 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.29 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 63.6247240618 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.498013245 69% => 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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