The reading and the lecture both discuss about sea otter. While the reading states that the decline of the sea otter was mainly because of the pollution near Alaska coast, The lecture cast doubt this idea by saying that predators are the primarily cause of this decline.
First of all, The reading claims that there are many industrial activities near the coast such as oil rigs and chemical plants that pollute the enviroment and the water causing the otters get infected. The professor counters this idea by saying that there is not evidence of sea otters getting infected. Moreover, he mentions that predators could have eaten this animals entirely without leaving any remains.
Secondly, The reading addresses that not only the pollution affects the sea otters but also other animals as well such as seals and sea lions. Furthermore, the reading says that predators such as orca does not need to hunt sea lions since they prefer to eat whales. The professor opposes to this idea by explaining that beacause of the human hunting of whales, the orcas opt for changing their diet, so they look for another pray such as the sea otters and others.
Finally, the reading passage points out that scientists have shown that sea otters in other parts of the reagion are not being affected by the decline. However, the ones that are near the coast of alaska are being impacted by a concentration of pollutants brought by oceans currents or other enviromental factors. The professor refutes this idea by saying that orcas find difficult to reach certain spots such as rockies locations so that is why the sea otters of the coast are the only ones that have been declining.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 359, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...entions that predators could have eaten this animals entirely without leaving any re...
^^^^
Line 7, column 184, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...decline. However, the ones that are near the coast of alaska are being impacted b...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, look, moreover, second, secondly, so, well, while, such as, 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: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1392.0 1373.03311258 101% => OK
No of words: 285.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88421052632 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10876417139 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.31490147781 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512280701754 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 416.7 419.366225166 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
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: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.3511603867 49.2860985944 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.545454545 110.228320801 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.9090909091 21.698381199 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.3636363636 7.06452816374 161% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.387459881849 0.272083759551 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.16238753027 0.0996497079465 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0631618796173 0.0662205650399 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.250610967601 0.162205337803 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0271971402327 0.0443174109184 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25 Out of 30
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