Summarize the point made in the lecture and explain how the speaker cast doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.
The reading passage and the lecture have conflicting opinions about whether the decline in the sea otters population is due to environmental or predation factors. The article strongly postulates that the decrease is mainly due to environmental hazards. On the other hand, the listening adamantly delineates that predation is most likely the culprit due to several compelling reasons.
First and foremost, according to the author of the excerpt, the number of sea otters plummeted as a result of pollution. Nonetheless, the lecture offsets this point by declaring that if pollutants were the cause, we would have seen dead sea otters by the shore. But what actually happened is that they disappeared which indicates that they probably were killed and eaten by predators.
On top of this, the professor in the listening points out that due to the human hunting activities, the whale`s population, the main prey for orcas, massively decreased. Thus, orcas had to adjust their diet to compensate for the shortage. Consequently, starting to eat smaller species instead. These claims refute the writer`s implications of how sea otters disappeared.
The text lastly insists that the unequal spread of sea otters gives more credits to the pollution claim. The speaker in the lecture contradicts these indications by asserting that the uneven decline of sea otters is obviously due to predation. Then he supported his opinion by saying that the stability of the sea otters population was seen in shallow rocky locations where orcas cannot access.
In conclusion, the listening counters each claim given by the author of the article with regards to while pollution or predation is the culprit for the sea otters population decrease.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 100, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'otters'' or 'otter's'?
Suggestion: otters'; otter's
...ns about whether the decline in the sea otters population is due to environmental or p...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 315, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'otters'' or 'otter's'?
Suggestion: otters'; otter's
...by saying that the stability of the sea otters population was seen in shallow rocky lo...
^^^^^^
Line 9, column 157, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'otters'' or 'otter's'?
Suggestion: otters'; otter's
...or predation is the culprit for the sea otters population decrease.
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, consequently, first, if, lastly, nonetheless, so, then, thus, while, in conclusion, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => 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: 1470.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 275.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.34545454545 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07223819929 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88715364994 2.5805825403 112% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 145.348785872 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.570909090909 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 445.5 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => 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: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.8790367957 49.2860985944 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.0 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6428571429 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.21428571429 7.06452816374 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0688233394802 0.272083759551 25% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0234658478736 0.0996497079465 24% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0333727866439 0.0662205650399 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0362210093585 0.162205337803 22% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0204804517773 0.0443174109184 46% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.3589403974 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.75 12.2367328918 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.34 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 63.6247240618 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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