The passage and the lecture are both about the zebra mussels. The author of the article states that the zebra mussels were occupying some parts of North America which were not stoppable and provides three reasons for support. However, the lecturer says that there are many effective ways of stopping zebra mussels from spreading and refutes each of the author's points.
First, the article claims that zebra mussels are traveled to the east coast of North America because of ships that were used by humans to carry cargo form Sothern Europe, where these zebra mussels are attached to the bottom of the ships. On the other hand, the lecturer refutes this point by saying that if humans empty the water in the ship and refill the ship with ocean water then the zebra mussels will die because of the salt water.
Second, the text conveys that the zebra mussels do not have predators in their new habitat so that they can dominate this place. Nevertheless, the lecturer opposes this point by saying that there are some birds in the new habitat which switch to eat these mussels rather than eating their food. Hence, there is a no dominance of these species.
Third, the article posits that the fish population would be decreased because of the zebra mussels in their habitats which competes for the same food. However, the professor says that fish eats the Zebra mussels which eat them at the bottom which gives them a lot of nutrients and the bottom fish starts growing. Therefore, there is no chance of the reduction in fish population.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, hence, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, then, therefore, third, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1277.0 1373.03311258 93% => OK
No of words: 266.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.8007518797 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03850299372 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.10719902939 2.5805825403 82% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 145.348785872 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.507518796992 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 386.1 419.366225166 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.3089177207 49.2860985944 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.090909091 110.228320801 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1818181818 21.698381199 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.54545454545 7.06452816374 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.465197002128 0.272083759551 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.17195430365 0.0996497079465 173% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.09579284623 0.0662205650399 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.275097334961 0.162205337803 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.050804547909 0.0443174109184 115% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.86 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.74 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 49.0 63.6247240618 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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