Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the specific
points made in the reading passage.
There's no doubt that Turtle Excluder Devices are a great idea that must be used by every single shrimping
boat. However, they are far from perfect and in need of drastic improvement, regardless of what the
author in the reading may believe.
First of all, TEDs are metal barriers that, in theory, don't allow anything more than 10 centimeters to pass
through them. However, many small and mid-sized turtles are still constantly caught deep in the nets of
trawls. Species like the leatherback and loggerhead turtles are smaller and unable to use the metal
barriers to their advantage.
It's also important to keep in mind that TEDs don't only exclude turtles, but there are instances where
some lucky shrimp hit the metal barrier and escape the trawl. In order to reduce shrimp loss, and, more
importantly, their profits, many boat owners prefer not to use the device at all. When it comes time to
drop the trawl in the open sea, shrimpers will simply remove the TED. And it's almost impossible for any
organization to monitor these ships so far from shore.
And, finally, it should be noted that many vessels that claim to be certified TED trawl users and have
documents that claim that they comply with the rules of the Shrimp-Turtle Law, actually have fake
documents. You see, shrimping is an international business and the documentation to be considered
TED-certified changes based on the country of the boat in question. With so much difference between
countries, few people know when a vessel is holding a fake certification or a real one.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: There's
Theres no doubt that Turtle Excluder Devices a...
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Line 4, column 56, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...EDs are metal barriers that, in theory, dont allow anything more than 10 centimeters...
^^^^
Line 8, column 46, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...lso important to keep in mind that TEDs dont only exclude turtles, but there are ins...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, so, still, no doubt, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1309.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 263.0 270.72406181 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97718631179 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02706775958 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60294973783 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.661596958175 0.540411800872 122% => OK
syllable_count: 390.6 419.366225166 93% => 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: 0.0 8.23620309051 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.4019086281 49.2860985944 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.083333333 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9166666667 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.33333333333 7.06452816374 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 17.0 4.09492273731 415% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0531486149892 0.272083759551 20% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.018212265678 0.0996497079465 18% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0271295645108 0.0662205650399 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0172429565487 0.162205337803 11% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0246839270998 0.0443174109184 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
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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