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

Both the article and the lecture discuss the causes of the reduction of sea otters from different perspectives. The article states that the decline of the otters is attributed to the sea pollution and provides three reasons to support this theory. However, the professor believes that the real factor that leads to this phenomenon is a presence of predator that attack the sea otters and she refutes each of the author's reasons.

Firstly, the reading claims that the analysis of the water from the Alaskan coast proved the presence of some chemicals whish are dangeorous to the otter's health, since they reduce their immunity against infection. This point, however, was refuted by the professor. She state that is the pollution was the actual reason, then we should be able to find dead otters slong the Alaskan shore , but this did not happen. Moreover, this supports the idea of the predator, due to the fact that if these mammals was killed by another animals in the middle of the sea, then the water will not wash their bodies to the caost, whish is consistent with the reality.

Secondly, the readind posits that the nomber of other animals in the Alaskan caost have decreased and this strongly support the claims of sea pollution, and the orcas whis is the assumed predators ia actually prefer to feed on the larger animals. The professor, nonetheless, rebuts this point. She states that because of the human hunting of the large mammels , orcas is now depend on the small mammals as the basic nutritional source.

Finally, while the article posits that the uneven decline in the otter nubers can prove that the pollution is the cause, since the maximum decline is found in the areas of the high pollution, the professor challanged this piont. She statesthat this distribution depends on the accessibility of the location for the orcas. since it has a large size, it is not able to reach the rocky and the stony areas and, indeed, these are the areas where a large number of the mammals were found. And this again give a good prove that the orcas is the reason.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 149, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'otters'' or 'otter's'?
Suggestion: otters'; otter's
...e chemicals whish are dangeorous to the otters health, since they reduce their immunit...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 388, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...find dead otters slong the Alaskan shore , but this did not happen. Moreover, this...
^^
Line 5, column 360, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...f the human hunting of the large mammels , orcas is now depend on the small mammal...
^^
Line 5, column 376, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'depended'.
Suggestion: depended
...ing of the large mammels , orcas is now depend on the small mammals as the basic nutri...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 323, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Since
...sibility of the location for the orcas. since it has a large size, it is not able to ...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 443, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
... and, indeed, these are the areas where a large number of the mammals were found. And this again ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, moreover, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, then, while

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1717.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 358.0 270.72406181 132% => OK
Chars per words: 4.79608938547 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34981470047 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.37926841905 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 145.348785872 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.508379888268 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 525.6 419.366225166 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.3160721739 49.2860985944 135% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.642857143 110.228320801 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5714285714 21.698381199 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.78571428571 7.06452816374 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.2986680985 0.272083759551 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.095104461515 0.0996497079465 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0509963207451 0.0662205650399 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176596827389 0.162205337803 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0359031727133 0.0443174109184 81% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.3589403974 105% => 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: 10.86 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.63 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 63.6247240618 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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