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Using the examples from the lecture, discuss two types of narrators that an author of fiction might use.
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2019-09-29 | Seema Modak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
2019-12-18 | Bobby1987 | 88.00 | Check this speaking |
2019-12-13 | jeffhjz | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
2019-05-05 | mghcivil | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
2018-07-18 | Elena Cristina | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
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- TPO 19 - Question 3Fee Increase for Recreation Center UseThe university administration today announced a $25 increase in the student fee for using the campus recreation center. The higher fee, which all students are required to pay, will provide funds to 76
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 706.0 578.828451883 122% => OK
No of words: 176.0 151.265690377 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.01136363636 3.82278263415 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.64232057368 3.50058242952 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.11860974023 1.80425224433 117% => OK
Unique words: 112.0 92.4686192469 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.636363636364 0.61298525976 104% => OK
Syllable count: 224.1 182.283891213 123% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20543933054 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0871731008717 0.0839705835288 104% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 5.0 4.47071129707 112% => OK
Average paragraph length: 35.2 65.8948926009 53% => OK
STD paragraph length: 22.3194982022 19.7758100068 113% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 11.78 25.5208953607 46% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 6.90577729151 7.49434385956 92% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 30.0 42.9832635983 70% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.86666666667 3.78147595546 155% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.44772101443 2.94285465224 151% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.86533333333 1.39386743896 134% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.24278379276 0.967747756167 128% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 29.0 40.4456066946 72% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.49 7.59280334728 99% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.258275862069 0.19053887516 136% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.245006248555 0.157467062838 156% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.78 46.3453556485 99% => OK
Average word duration: 0.260113636364 0.308780311121 84% => OK
STD word duration: 0.154047618953 0.201157623399 77% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 8.09623430962 49% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.1 6.56692468619 47% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.47 3.53066945607 98% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.9 59.5455230126 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.981666666667 0.992425383543 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.492359932088 0.681803438845 72% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.98811544992 2.53813033465 118% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.90152801358 1.55221717717 123% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.44648318043 1.99939622689 122% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.263413823864 0.309613076454 85% => OK
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.