TPO-48 - Integrated Writing Task In recent years, many frog species around the world have declined in numbers or even gone extinct due to changes in their environment. These population declines and extinctions have serious consequences for the ecosystems

Essay topics

The reading and the lecture are both about frogs, and how they are getting extinct and endangered. The author of the reading believes that the decline in frog population is mostly from the environment, and how it is being treated. The lecturer casts doubts made on this article. She thinks that the frogs are disappearing from different reasons.

First of all, the author points out that the frogs are decreasing, from pesticide. It is mentioned that the government should prevent farmers who live near a frogs neighborhood, to stop using pesticide. This point is challenged by the by the lecturer. She says that a law making farmers use pesticide would be unfair. Furthermore, she argues by saying that the farmers who are not allowed to use pesticide would have less crops than the farmers with pesticide.
Secondly, the author contends that the frogs are dying from fungus. The article notes that the fungus creates thick layers on the skin, which prevents the frogs from absorbing water. The lecturer rebuts this argument. She suggests that getting rid of the fungus would not be a good idea. She elaborates of this by mentioning that the fungus would continue growing even after cleaning the frogs and the project would be complicating and expensive.

Finally, the author states that the frog’s ecosystems are being ruined by humans. The article establishes that the humans, collect water from where the frogs lay eggs, preventing frogs to be able to reproduce. The lecturer on the other hand mentions that the humans are not the problem, and even if the humans stop this, the population would be the same. She puts forth on this idea, by stating that global warming is the main problem, and it has made many wetland species go extinct.

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Average: 7.5 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 232, 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.
...vironment, and how it is being treated. The lecturer casts doubts made on this arti...
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Line 3, column 159, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'frogs'' or 'frog's'?
Suggestion: frogs'; frog's
... should prevent farmers who live near a frogs neighborhood, to stop using pesticide. ...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 229, Rule ID: PHRASE_REPETITION[1]
Message: This phrase is duplicated. You should probably leave only 'by the'.
Suggestion: by the
...ing pesticide. This point is challenged by the by the lecturer. She says that a law making fa...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 418, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun crops is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...not allowed to use pesticide would have less crops than the farmers with pesticide. ...
^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, first of all, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.4613686534 191% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1461.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 295.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95254237288 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14434120667 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49861553162 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.508474576271 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 426.6 419.366225166 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.0223489394 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 81.1666666667 110.228320801 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.3888888889 21.698381199 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.05555555556 7.06452816374 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 4.45695364238 224% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.386932690759 0.272083759551 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.125454483881 0.0996497079465 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.088133112011 0.0662205650399 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.240909182659 0.162205337803 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0266426169907 0.0443174109184 60% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.1 13.3589403974 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 72.16 53.8541721854 134% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 11.0289183223 65% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.13 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 11.2008830022 62% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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