Otter
The passage states that sea otters have disappeared because of environmental pollutions. However, the professor believes that predators are the real cause of their death.
First of all, the reading claims that the water is full of chemical due to pollution. Therefore, others couldn’t have survived in this condition. On the other hand, the professor thinks that it’s more likely that predators ate them, since no bodies of otters were found on the beaches. This explains why chemicals were not the case here.
Next, According to the reading, the pollution caused other small animals to die out as well. In contrast, the listening points out that there were no bodies of those animals found too. The lecture mentions orca, a predator, that usually feds on whales. Professor says, since whales do not exist anymore, orcas have switched to hunting on smaller mammals. This again shows that those animals haven’t been found due to being eaten by the predators.
Lastly, the passage indicates that otters have disappeared “unevenly”. In other words, they still existed in some locations, but in others-they have completely disappeared. The reading suggests it happened because of the unevenly distributed pollution. The professor casts doubt on this, claiming that orcas simply weren’t able to reach and hunt in some places otters lived. As they are big in size, some locations were too small for them to fit. However, they could still hunt on otters in those locations they could get access to. Thus, the uneven patter happened.
All in all, the reading suggests that sea otters disappeared due to pollutions, while the listening indicates, it happened because of predators.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 402, Rule ID: ADJECTIVE_IN_ATTRIBUTE[1]
Message: A more concise phrase may lose no meaning and sound more powerful.
Suggestion: big
...n some places otters lived. As they are big in size, some locations were too small for them...
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Line 6, column 146, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ates, it happened because of predators.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, lastly, so, still, therefore, thus, well, while, in contrast, first of all, in other words, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1439.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 271.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.30996309963 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05734859645 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80146959899 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560885608856 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 435.6 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.195608249 49.2860985944 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 75.7368421053 110.228320801 69% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.2631578947 21.698381199 66% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.84210526316 7.06452816374 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.199430645512 0.272083759551 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0615546219521 0.0996497079465 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0918712727556 0.0662205650399 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128480600452 0.162205337803 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0716969416942 0.0443174109184 162% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 13.3589403974 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.27 53.8541721854 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.8 11.0289183223 80% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.93 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.29 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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