Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they respond to the specific points made in the reading passage.
The reading material and lecture both center on the topic of whether or not to send people from Earth to an asteroid for a choice of colonization. While the passage considers this a practical option, the lecturer stands against this idea by presenting three counterarguments. First of all, the passage suggests that the gravity on asteroids are low due to their considerably smaller sizes compared to planets, which provides several benefits. Spacecrafts can land easily and safer, and they can also be loaded with more apparatus; besides, they can also depart from an asteroid more readily. On the other hand, the speaker disproves the points made in the passage by presenting several risk factors brought forth by the lower gravity. First, the muscles of people who land on asteroids may not be sustained, which may become detrimental to their health. Second, the reduced gravity would actually bring the their bone density down to a level the may result in problems with their health condition. Secondly, the reading proposes that colonizing on asteroids can have valuable outcomes, including precious metals that in the asteroids. These metals can make the trip worthwhile by mining the resources from the asteroids. In contrast, the lecturer counters the idea in the passage by insisting that it may seem lucrative to mine the minerals from the asteroids, the augmented costs may lower the profits. For example, the costs of transport and mining the valuable metal resources on the asteroids may result in extra costs that bring the overall profits down. Also, if the amount of metals being mined from these asteroids is significant, there may be another issue regarding the price; if the amount is great, then the market price of the metals would actually diminish. Lastly, the reading puts forth another advantage of landing on asteroids. The passage mentions that reaching the asteroids is an easy since they are in periodic motion, so spacecrafts can seize the proper time period when the asteroids are close to the Earth to land on them. This can make the trip to asteroids easier and less costly. However, the speaker argues that although it is easily approachable, the trip back to Earth might be challenging. The reason is that these asteroids may travel with an unusual orbit path that sometimes they may travel to even farther away than the distance between Mars and Earth. In other words, the asteroids do not simply stay put. This would not be an ideal option for spacecrafts when they plan to return to the Earth.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 62, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...and lecture both center on the topic of whether or not to send people from Earth to an asteroi...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 904, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'their'?
Suggestion: the; their
...he reduced gravity would actually bring the their bone density down to a level the may re...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, first, however, if, lastly, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, while, for example, in contrast, first of all, in other words, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 5.04856512141 396% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 30.3222958057 188% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2110.0 1373.03311258 154% => OK
No of words: 422.0 270.72406181 156% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53239876712 4.04702891845 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56202674511 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 145.348785872 144% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495260663507 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 638.1 419.366225166 152% => 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: 16.0 8.23620309051 194% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.009379509 49.2860985944 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.052631579 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2105263158 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.31578947368 7.06452816374 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 1.0 4.09492273731 24% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 4.33554083885 254% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
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: 0.129932438835 0.272083759551 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0405741401468 0.0996497079465 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0403220438111 0.0662205650399 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129932438835 0.162205337803 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0443174109184 0% => 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: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.72 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 63.6247240618 151% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
Read sample essays from ETS:
http://www.testbig.com/users/toeflwritingmaster
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 62, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...and lecture both center on the topic of whether or not to send people from Earth to an asteroi...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 904, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'their'?
Suggestion: the; their
...he reduced gravity would actually bring the their bone density down to a level the may re...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, first, however, if, lastly, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, while, for example, in contrast, first of all, in other words, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 5.04856512141 396% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 30.3222958057 188% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2110.0 1373.03311258 154% => OK
No of words: 422.0 270.72406181 156% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53239876712 4.04702891845 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56202674511 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 145.348785872 144% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495260663507 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 638.1 419.366225166 152% => 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: 16.0 8.23620309051 194% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.009379509 49.2860985944 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.052631579 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2105263158 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.31578947368 7.06452816374 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 1.0 4.09492273731 24% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 4.33554083885 254% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
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: 0.129932438835 0.272083759551 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0405741401468 0.0996497079465 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0403220438111 0.0662205650399 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129932438835 0.162205337803 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0443174109184 0% => 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: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.72 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 63.6247240618 151% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
Read sample essays from ETS:
http://www.testbig.com/users/toeflwritingmaster
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.