Summarize the point made in the lecture and explain how the speaker cast doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.
Task 1
Both the article and the lecture talk about the decline in the population of sea otters which are a small mammal that lives in the waters along North America's west coast to Alaska. According to the article, the main cause of this decline is environmental pollution. However, the lecturer can't disagree more.
First of all, the article says that pollution is the most likely cause for the population decline of the sea otter because of the pollution sources along the Alaskan coast such as oil rigs. It elaborates more by saying that even the water samples in that area showed increased levels of chemicals that could lead to the deteriorate the immune system of the otters hence their death. On the other hand, the lecturer articulates that according to the investigation done, it was found that predation was the reason behind this decline. He supports this point by saying that the lack of sea otters in that area was not expected.
Moreover, the article hints that the decline of other sea mammals such as seals also shows that the culprit is pollution. It continues by saying that whatever was affecting the sea otters was affecting other sea mammals too. Albeit, the lecturer says the reason why other sea mammals like whales are disappearing is due to human hunting of those species. He elaborates more by articulating that as there were no whales to feed on sea alkers, they ended up feeding on otters which were the ones available, hence the decline of sea otters.
Finally, the article articulates that there is also an uneven pattern of otter decline because in some Alaskan locations due to ocean currents which may have created uneven concentrations of pollutants along the coast. However, the lecturer contradicts this by saying that the reason why there is an uneven number of sea otters in some locations is because some parts are favorable for sea alkers, others not. This means that in parts where the alkers are in stable number, the number of otters is uneven as they feed on the sea otters.
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- Summarize the point made in the lecture and explain how the speaker cast doubt on specific points made in the reading passage. 3
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 289, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...mental pollution. However, the lecturer cant disagree more. First of all, the art...
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Line 6, column 317, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
... levels of chemicals that could lead to the deteriorate the immune system of the otters hence t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, hence, however, may, moreover, so, such as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.4613686534 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 1.0 7.30242825607 14% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 20.0 12.0772626932 166% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 30.3222958057 152% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1687.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 348.0 270.72406181 129% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84770114943 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44578383506 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.448275862069 0.540411800872 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 531.9 419.366225166 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.2534393178 49.2860985944 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.5 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8571428571 21.698381199 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.92857142857 7.06452816374 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0336007815324 0.272083759551 12% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0175540017066 0.0996497079465 18% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0240843502147 0.0662205650399 36% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0258620330027 0.162205337803 16% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.014567603671 0.0443174109184 33% => 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: 13.8 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.15 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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