TPO-26 - Integrated Writing Task The zebra mussel, a freshwater shellfish native to Eastern Europe, has long been spreading out from its original habitats and has now reached parts of North America. There are reasons to believe that this invasion cannot b

According to the article, in Eastern Europe zebra mussel is native freshwater shellfish now reach to North America. This migration cannot stop causes harm to the freshwater fish population in North America. Whereas, the lecturer contradict the author view about the migration. He says that zebra mussel serious harm to other freshwater fish and this problem now easily solve to prevent the migration of the zebra mussel. In past, invasion cannot be stopped because of lack of knowledge but now it is can be possible to control the migration.
Firstly, the passage implies that zebra mussel spread by human transportation because of mussel fasten to ship bottom and easily survive by ballast water which is required for ship balance. In contrast with this, the speaker explains that ship needs to balance its cargo. when ship come to the ocean they can pour out water in an ocean so, ultimately zebra mussel kills because they exchange the ship water to salty ocean water.
Secondly, the article emphasizes that mussel dominant because of no any predators. On the contrary with this, the lecturer mentions that in begin mussel were dominant but after local birds change their food habit and eat the mussel.
Thirdly, the author states that decline the overall fish because mussel and plankton eater mussel compete with other fish for food. On the other hand, the professor points out that overall fish population not decline but surging because of mussel eat plankton and release the nutrients which are eat by the bottom of the sea fish.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 208, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Whereas” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...water fish population in North America. Whereas, the lecturer contradict the author vie...
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Line 1, column 422, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'In the past'?
Suggestion: In the past
...vent the migration of the zebra mussel. In past, invasion cannot be stopped because of ...
^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 193, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[2]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: contrast,
... which is required for ship balance. In contrast with this, the speaker explains that sh...
^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 272, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: When
...s that ship needs to balance its cargo. when ship come to the ocean they can pour ou...
^^^^
Line 3, column 66, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
...hasizes that mussel dominant because of no any predators. On the contrary with thi...
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Line 4, column 296, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'eaten'.
Suggestion: eaten
...ton and release the nutrients which are eat by the bottom of the sea fish.
^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, whereas, in contrast, on the contrary, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1285.0 1373.03311258 94% => OK
No of words: 256.0 270.72406181 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01953125 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.31924362481 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.51953125 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 393.3 419.366225166 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.116997792494 855% => Less interrogative sentences wanted.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.3618184537 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.083333333 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3333333333 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.58333333333 7.06452816374 136% => 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 : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.484540841549 0.272083759551 178% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.177363761407 0.0996497079465 178% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0894463120066 0.0662205650399 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.269875441317 0.162205337803 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0760972362346 0.0443174109184 172% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => 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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