In the text, it is written that the cane toads, which are amphibian animals, were brought to Australia from Central and South America in the hope that they could inhibit some harmful insect species from eating crops. However, they became the problem themselves for other animal species by threatening them. The author of the reading suggests his/her arguments whereas the professor believes that the author’s solutions would cause undesired results to the environment.
First off, the author offers building a national fence as a way of a solution in order to restrain the toads' population. It is also mentioned that this method was also used to prevent rabbits, which were introduced to Australia from foreign countries, from harming the native ecosystem. The professor, on the other hand, points out that in order to establish a new population, passing of a few young toads through the fence is enough. So, the fence would probably not be an effective way to solve this problem.
According to the reading, since cane toads’ habitats are restricted with water, it is easy to catch and destroy them by setting a trap. So, the governments should encourage people to be a volunteer on this duty. The lecturer draws attention to the point that untrained volunteers may, unintentionally, damage native frogs, which are already endangered.
The last way of the solution made in the article is infecting a virus to the toads in order to keep down their population. The speaker remarks the point that the virus will spread other animals like reptiles, which are usually transported by researchers from Australia to America. Although the virus is not harmful to other species, it will attack and probably exterminate the native toads, which are crucial for the ecosystem, when it reaches America. As a result, the ecosystem in America will be in danger.
- 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 80
- TPO 14 Integrated writing 86
- tpo 26 Integrated task 86
- TOEFL essay: Some students prefer to study alone. Others prefer to study with a group of student. Which do you prefer ? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 70
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Grades (marks) encourage students to learn. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. 70
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 124, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...in order to keep down their population. The speaker remarks the point that the viru...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, may, so, whereas, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1494.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 290.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15172413793 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72466166943 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.568965517241 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 455.4 419.366225166 109% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.914741836 49.2860985944 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.923076923 110.228320801 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3076923077 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.92307692308 7.06452816374 70% => OK
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 : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.361145589595 0.272083759551 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111367089005 0.0996497079465 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.057733433261 0.0662205650399 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.199249136024 0.162205337803 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0347959140203 0.0443174109184 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.3589403974 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.89 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.92 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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