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 reading explains the decline in sea otters with the help of hypothesis based on pollution caused by the nearby industries, while on the other hand the listening section weakens it by explaining this decline with the help of predatory hypothesis.
The first reason presented by the listening section is that, the dead sea Otters are not found anywhere around the coast, which clearly indicates that they have been eaten up by their predators. This reason undermines the reasoning put forth by the reading section that, the cause is the pollution caused by known sources located nearby the coasts.
The second reason following it stated by the listening section is that, the Orcas could be the casue since they are predators of large whales and whales have migrated to another regions, forcing the Orcas to hunt other available species which include sea Otters and others. It again refutes the claim made in the reading section that, the environmental pollution has caused declination in other species as well.
The final reason of listening suggests that, the uneven reduction in the sea Otters' population is due to the location of Orcas, because the Orcas are giant and they cannot hunt in the shallow waters, leaving the population of Otters located there unharmed, while reducing the number of Otters located in deep seas where they are easily accessible to Orcas. This casts a doubt on the point cited out by author of the reading section that, the uneven declination is explained by the environmental factors such as tides.

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Average: 8.4 (3 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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The reading explains the decline in sea ...
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...with the help of predatory hypothesis. The first reason presented by the listen...
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...own sources located nearby the coasts. The second reason following it stated by...
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... declination in other species as well. The final reason of listening suggests ...
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...her species as well. The final reason of listening suggests that, the uneven r...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, second, so, well, while, as to, such as, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 5.01324503311 299% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1280.0 1373.03311258 93% => OK
No of words: 255.0 270.72406181 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01960784314 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99608801488 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47417728725 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.498039215686 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 395.1 419.366225166 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 13.0662251656 54% => 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: 36.0 21.2450331126 169% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 73.7095790302 49.2860985944 150% => OK
Chars per sentence: 182.857142857 110.228320801 166% => OK
Words per sentence: 36.4285714286 21.698381199 168% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.28571428571 7.06452816374 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.338830604293 0.272083759551 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.163757156227 0.0996497079465 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0348361498451 0.0662205650399 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.215563412951 0.162205337803 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0161896933734 0.0443174109184 37% => 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: 20.4 13.3589403974 153% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.4 53.8541721854 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 11.0289183223 147% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.43 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 10.7273730684 172% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.4 10.498013245 156% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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