TPO 23 - Question 3
No More International News
For the past few years, the daily campus newspaper has included a one-page international news section covering a few of the major stories in world news. Starting next month, the section will be eliminated. One of the reasons the newspaper editors gave for the decision to cut the section is that other news sources are better able to provide wider and more up-to-date international news coverage. The editors also noted that the change would create space for a new calendar page that will list events and activities around campus.
The woman expresses her opinion about the plan announced in the article. Briefly summarize the plan. Then state her opinion about the plan and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion.
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-15 | ali rouhani | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-20 | muzamil | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-14 | mgrajapt | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-10-27 | nasimn | Check this speaking | |
| 2017-01-04 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
- Graduation speaker should be a business leader I think the university should invite a business leader to speak at this year s graduation ceremony perhaps an executive from one of the large corporations in the area For students business leaders are excelle 83
- your friend is planning to take a year off to travel before university. what do you think? 83
- The administration has announced that starting next fall, the university will stop offering evening classes in many departments. According to a university administrator, the decision was prompted by a steady decline in enrollments in evening classes. &quo 83
- some teachers think that it is important for students to sit in assigned seats that is to sit in the same place every day in class Other teachers think that students should be allowed to choose where they will sit and they allow them to sit in different s 71
- State whether you agree or disagree with the following statement. Then explain your reasons, using specific details in your explanation. "Learning through online courses is more effective than learning in the traditional classroom setting" 78
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 720.0 593.389002037 121% => OK
No of words: 179.0 154.784114053 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.02234636872 3.82920900774 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.65774358864 3.52088357496 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.0276174401 1.81998168104 111% => OK
Unique words: 102.0 93.7942973523 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.569832402235 0.608046397892 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 225.9 185.724439919 122% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0887612246932 0.0833886788687 106% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 8.0 3.90020366599 205% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 22.375 71.3690273242 31% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 16.2399007078 24.1299301424 67% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 6.92125 26.8388033085 26% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 4.6793040014 8.89323425527 53% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 17.0 40.266802444 42% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 10.5294117647 4.20756893501 250% => The average length of sentences is long.
STD acoustic sentence length: 6.11764705882 3.23972648638 189% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 3.07176470588 1.51236819293 203% => The duration of acoustic sentences is too long.
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.52620727639 1.0352206224 147% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 11.0 37.9022403259 29% => Need to have little pauses between words/sentences.
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.39 7.22384928717 47% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.308181818182 0.193825474362 159% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.190254288296 0.16431695912 116% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 46.79 46.6644602851 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.261396648045 0.304040633073 86% => OK
STD word duration: 0.150710622825 0.193491353168 78% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 8.88594704684 68% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.15 6.97134419552 60% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.21 3.21433808554 100% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 55.37 59.1375356415 94% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.922833333333 0.985625594026 94% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.198663536211 0.643888735843 31% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.2327975438 2.61565628039 124% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.84215279032 1.58604529434 116% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.17995298141 2.01333574461 108% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.432980145251 0.322651457988 134% => OK
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.