TPO 15: integrated writing task
The main topic of both the reading passage and the lecture is about the control of the introduced population of the cane toad in Australia. The author proposes three measures to control the toads' population. However, the lecturer finds all of the proposed solutions inefficient and presents some evidence to refute them all.
First of all, the author claims that creating a national fence would be a good barrier that prevents the canes from passing to other parts of Australia and this approach was used before to control the population of rabbits in Australia. However, the speaker underlines the fact that there would be rivers and streams in the route of feces and young toads and the toads' eggs could pass the fence by a river and reach the other side. A few numbers of transferred young toads would be able to establish a new population on the other side of the fence.
Furthermore, the reading passage asserts that volunteers can capture and destroy the toads, therefore the government could organize a campaign for this and encourage citizens to capture the toads and stop the increase of toads' population. On the contrary, the speaker finds this solution useless due to the fact that discrimination between native frogs and cane toads, especially young toads, is not easy an easy task and a massive group of untrained volunteers may inadvertently capture and destroy native frogs of Australia and endanger the lives of native species.
Finally, the author brings up the idea of using a disease-causing virus which would control the population of toads by preventing the species from maturing and reproducing. On the contrary, the professor dismisses this option due to the fact that this approach would have unpredicted consequences for cane toads in their original habitat. She indicates that other reptiles and amphibians in Australia may be infected by the virus. Also, these animals are transported to South America by researchers or pet collectors. Once these animals arrive in South America, they could infect native cane toads and endanger their lives. She highlights that toads are an essential and vital part of the ecosystem in South America.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 191, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'toads'' or 'toad's'?
Suggestion: toads'; toad's
... proposes three measures to control the toads population. However, the lecturer finds...
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Line 1, column 237, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...population. However, the lecturer finds all of the proposed solutions inefficient and pres...
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Line 7, column 718, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...part of the ecosystem in South America.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, furthermore, however, may, so, therefore, first of all, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 19.0 7.30242825607 260% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 30.3222958057 152% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1815.0 1373.03311258 132% => OK
No of words: 356.0 270.72406181 131% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09831460674 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34372677135 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7074149353 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491573033708 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 559.8 419.366225166 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.5204052516 49.2860985944 145% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.642857143 110.228320801 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4285714286 21.698381199 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.64285714286 7.06452816374 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
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: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.499894005138 0.272083759551 184% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.169515434706 0.0996497079465 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0701569995473 0.0662205650399 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.289139120852 0.162205337803 178% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0711574310096 0.0443174109184 161% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 13.3589403974 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.74 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 63.6247240618 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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