Both the reading and the lecture talk about weather the cellphone use might evoke drivers to have accidents or not. The reading states that cellphones have brought some disadvantages to drivers such as distraction and increasing the chances of having an accident. In contrast, the speaker disagrees and claims that some studies demonstrated that cell phones were not the principal cause of accident on drivers.
In the first place, the article claims that the rising on cell phone use has produced an increase on car accidents due to drivers distraction. On the other hand, the speaker talks about a new study that posits that 80 percent of drivers attention doesn't rely on cellphone only. A new study says that drivers distract more in other activities such as talking with other passenger, eaten, or even some of them might feel drowsy. Because of these activities, accidents might occur.
Second, the article says that some countries are concern about the danger that cell phones constitute to drivers that have developed laws in order to ban the cell phone usage. The speaker disagrees that the principal cause of accidents on drivers might be cell phones. The speaker states that another study took 80 drivers and installed cameras on their cars. They discovered that, activities such as talking, eating, even the use of GPS are the principal causes of accidents.
Finally, the speaker disagrees about the most important cause of accident on drivers. He does not think that it is the cell phone. He thinks that rather than affecting drivers, cellphones increase driver's safety because drivers use cellphones to report problems such as accidents on highways. Because of this, police respond is faster, and death can be prevented.
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Sentence: In the first place, the article claims that the rising on cell phone use has produced an increase on car accidents due to drivers distraction.
Description: A noun, plural, common is not usually followed by a noun, singular, common
Suggestion: Refer to drivers and distraction
Sentence: On the other hand, the speaker talks about a new study that posits that 80 percent of drivers attention doesn't rely on cellphone only.
Description: A noun, plural, common is not usually followed by a noun, singular, common
Suggestion: Refer to drivers and attention
Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 25 in 30
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 12
No. of Words: 285 250
No. of Characters: 1419 1200
No. of Different Words: 137 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.109 4.2
Average Word Length: 4.979 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.461 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 104 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 83 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 46 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 35 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.46 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.379 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.551 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.124 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4