Both the reading and the lecture talk about the decline or even extinction of frog populations. The reading proposes three methods to solve the problem; however, the professor in the lecture argues that none of them are practical.
Firstly, the reading claims that since pesticides can harm frogs, there should be laws to forbidden the use fo pesticides near sensitive frogs. However, the lecturer points out that it is not economic practical. If farmers follow the regulation, they are not able to prevent insects from damaging farm crops. As the result, they may lose their crops and yields of their farmlands can be reduced.
Secondly, the reading states that the decline of frog population is mainly caused by a fungus with deadly effect, so frogs who are infected can be treated with heat to kill the fungus. Nevertheless, the professor maintains that this kind of treaments need to be done to each individual frog, which causes it difficult to apply on a large scale. In the meantime, it is expensive and not practical since it has to be done again and again for each genration of frogs.
Finally, the reading argues that frog populations can be recovered by protect their natural habitats from excessive water use and dvelopment since this kind of human activities threathens their habitats, while the speaker casts doubt on it. She illustrates that the damage of habitats is not the biggest problem. Instead, the actual problem that leads frog population to decline is global warming, which causes disappearance of natural habitats for frogs. Thus, prevent human activties cannot solve the problem.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, then, thus, while, as to, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1351.0 1373.03311258 98% => OK
No of words: 265.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09811320755 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03470204552 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59263134152 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.566037735849 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 405.9 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less 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: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.3412026713 49.2860985944 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.923076923 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3846153846 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.61538461538 7.06452816374 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.41164479612 0.272083759551 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.124992045206 0.0996497079465 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0966726833413 0.0662205650399 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.225806474783 0.162205337803 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0829349451677 0.0443174109184 187% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.3589403974 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.8 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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