TPO-15 - Integrated Writing Task The cane toad is a large (1.8 kg) amphibian species native to Central and South America. It was deliberately introduced to Australia in 1935 with the expectation that it would protect farmers' crops by eating harmful insec

The article states that several measures proposed to stop the spread of the cane toad in Australia and provides three reasons of supports. Conversely, the professor states that none of these measures will stop the spread of cane toad successfully. And she refutes each of the author's reasons.

First, the reading claims that a national fence would prevent the spread of the cane toad in Australia. However, the professor refutes this point by stating that building a fence would not stop the spread. Young cane toad and its egg used rivers, and streams to transport. So, when the cane toad eggs float on the water, it would carry out to other side of the river, to another location. Therefore, if we could located the cane toad, it would be useless. She concludes that a national fence would be so ineffective in stopping the spread of the cane toad.

Second, the reading avers that the toads could be captured and destroyed by volunteers. The professor, on the hand, opposes this idea by stating that this could have destroyed other native species too. SInce those volunteers untrained, they could not have been able to recognize the young cane toad and native frogs species. Because those two species are relatively similar and its hard to distinguish among them. Therefore, capturing and destroying the cane toad would not easy and successful way to prevent the spread of them.

Third, the reading posits that a disease-causing virus will be developed to control the cane toad populations. The professor disagrees with this point by saying this is a bad idea for the ecosystem. For example, the virus would infect certain reptile and amphibian species that inhabit the South America. SO, when these species transport from Australia to South America, the virus will spread and attack the native cane toad. Since the toads in South America are vital part of the ecosystem, this could lead to devastate the ecosystem there. Therefore, the development of virus-causing disease to control the cane toad populations in Australia would have negative consequences on the ecosystem in the other places.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 413, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'could' requires the base form of the verb: 'locate'
Suggestion: locate
...nother location. Therefore, if we could located the cane toad, it would be useless. She...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
conversely, first, however, if, second, so, therefore, third, for example

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 5.04856512141 317% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1758.0 1373.03311258 128% => OK
No of words: 348.0 270.72406181 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05172413793 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58081814064 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.462643678161 0.540411800872 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 530.1 419.366225166 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Interrogative: 2.0 0.116997792494 1709% => Less interrogative sentences wanted.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 1.25165562914 479% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.6291193996 49.2860985944 54% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 87.9 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.4 21.698381199 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.65 7.06452816374 52% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.603014776017 0.272083759551 222% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.210496189854 0.0996497079465 211% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.112881597684 0.0662205650399 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.384201134894 0.162205337803 237% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0606473918418 0.0443174109184 137% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 13.3589403974 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.71 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.93 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => 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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