TPO-17
In the past century, the steady growth of the human population and the corresponding increase in agriculture and pesticide use have caused much harm to wildlife in the United States—birds in particular. Unfortunately for birds, these trends are likely to continue, with the result that the number of birds in the United States will necessarily decline.
The reading and the lecture are both about the decreasing number of birds in the United States. The text claims that this is an effect of the fast growth rate of people in the world, as well as agriculture and pesticides used. The lecturer opposes the statements in the reading. The professor is of the opinion that those are not convincing arguments to explain this phenomenon.
First, the text argues that the natural habitats used by birds are now the new homes for people. As populations grow, the cities are being expanded, so that new habitants can have their places to live. This includes all the services associated, such as the construction of malls and offices. On the other hand, the lecturer challenges this by explaining that these places have actually attracted a variety of birds to live there. For instance, pigeons and falcons thrive in urban environments. Moreover, they can provide better and larger habitats for some species of birds.
Secondly, the article mentions that it is due to the lands being used by agriculture that birds cannot longer stay in their natural environments. The lecturer refutes this specific argument by explaining that it is incorrect the way the article assumes this fact. Nowadays, the agriculture industry is based on more productive varieties of crops, which yield more food with the same amount of terrain. It is for this reason that there will not be increases in use of land.
Finally, the reading states that because of increasing agriculture, the use of pesticides have risen as well. Consequently, this produces a contamination of the water and insects eaten by birds. However, the lecturer disagrees with this argument. According to the listening, use of toxic pesticides was harmful practice from the past, that will not persist in the future due to increased awareness. Furthermore, science has developed new crops, by genetic modifications that can resist insect predation.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 228, 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.
...ell as agriculture and pesticides used. The lecturer opposes the statements in the ...
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Line 1, column 280, 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.
... opposes the statements in the reading. The professor is of the opinion that those ...
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Line 3, column 576, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ger habitats for some species of birds. Secondly, the article mentions that it i...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...tions that can resist insect predation.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, consequently, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, well, for instance, such as, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1628.0 1373.03311258 119% => OK
No of words: 317.0 270.72406181 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1356466877 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21953715646 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76546241058 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.552050473186 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 504.9 419.366225166 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.5121928885 49.2860985944 60% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 85.6842105263 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6842105263 21.698381199 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.21052631579 7.06452816374 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.27373068433 211% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.320686460489 0.272083759551 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0828432434662 0.0996497079465 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0566817765366 0.0662205650399 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17833844359 0.162205337803 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0265617288949 0.0443174109184 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 13.3589403974 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.81 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 63.6247240618 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.