TPO-10 - Integrated Writing Task The sea otter is a small mammal that lives in waters along the western coast of North America from California to Alaska. When some sea otter populations off the Alaskan coast started rapidly declining a few years ago, it c

The article states that sea otters numbers have declined rapidly because of environmental pollution, and it provides three compelling reasons. However, the author disagrees with the article and states that predation is the most logical reason.

To begin with, the article says that oil rigs along the Alaskan coast is one of the reasons of otters decline, the professor refutes this by saying that no otter's bodies have washed up the shores, which would be explained by predators eating otters.

Additionally, the articles mentiones the decline of other mammels in the exact places owing to environmental pollution. The professor says that whales which are eaten usually by orcas have decreased in number due to human hunting. He explains that orcas have started to eat otters as a result of this.

Lastly, the article points out that uneven patterns of otter numbers is due to pollution. The professor opposes this by telling us that the unevenness of otter numbers is a consequence of the accessibility of otters to Orcas. He mentions that shallow rocky areas are harder to enter by orcas which explains why otters live in larger numbers there.

And that's how the professor taught us the real reason of otters population significant decrease in numbers.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 29, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'otters'' or 'otter's'?
Suggestion: otters'; otter's
The article states that sea otters numbers have declined rapidly because o...
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Line 9, column 5, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: that's
...rs live in larger numbers there. And thats how the professor taught us the real re...
^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, lastly, so, as a result, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1062.0 1373.03311258 77% => OK
No of words: 206.0 270.72406181 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15533980583 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.78849575616 4.04702891845 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62249166477 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 119.0 145.348785872 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.577669902913 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 329.4 419.366225166 79% => 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: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.1579895576 49.2860985944 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.2 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.1 7.06452816374 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => 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: 0.253484602234 0.272083759551 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107340573035 0.0996497079465 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0506187322752 0.0662205650399 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140904126946 0.162205337803 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0333459974417 0.0443174109184 75% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.3 8.42419426049 110% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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