Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they oppose specific points made in the reading passage.
Both the reading passage and lecture discusses about nutria, an annoying pest that is harmful to environment. The former one provides three ways to prevent getting of nutria in farms and gardens while the latter one contends these methods and suggest they cannot stop nutria in encroaching lawns.
First of all, the reading passage mentions that nutria can be prevented by building strong fences of metal that are not damaged by nutria and donot have extra maintainence fee. The professor, however, argues that nutria are notorious animals and are agile in digging. No matter how deep the fence are made, these animlas always find a way to dig deep enough with their sharp claws. So, fences cannot stop nutria from spreading in cultivable lands.
Secondly, the author of the passage says that nutria can be dodged by drying up drainages since drainage helps them to survive and travel. In contrast, the professor implies that drying up drainages will have more negative impacts than the positive ones. He claims that drainage are not only used for farming but also for other purposes. Further, drying of drainage reduces irrigation facilities and results in low production of crops. Hence, getting rid of drainage is a futile solution.
Finally, the passage suggest that cooking nutria for food helps in reducing them. They are delicious and also have large amount of protein and carbohydrates. On the other hand the man in the listening section asserts that nutria are not great for eating since they host a large quantity of bacteria and parasites. They contains pathogens that causes several diseases like Tuberclosos. Moreover, people are reported to have suffered from rash, fevers and other problem after they eat nutria. Thus, nutria cannot be taken as edible food.
Conclusively, the reading passage points three measures to prevent nutria whereas the professor finds these measures pointless.
- Nutria is a beaver like rat sized approximately 24 inches long growing up to 20 pounds and usually living in semi aquatic habitats This creature originated in South America but is now widely spread throughout the ecosystem becoming an annoying pest that h 76
- Although innovations such as video computers and the Internet seem to offer schools improved methods for instructing students these technologies all too often distract from real learning 50
- No field of study can advance significantly unless outsiders bring their knowledge and experience to that field of study 66
- Summarize the points made in the lecture being sure to explain how they oppose specific points made in the reading passage 93
- Summarize the points made in the lecture being sure to explain how they case doubt on specific points made in the reading passage 71
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 320, Rule ID: NON3PRS_VERB[2]
Message: The pronoun 'They' must be used with a non-third-person form of a verb: 'contain'
Suggestion: contain
...uantity of bacteria and parasites. They contains pathogens that causes several diseases ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, hence, however, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, whereas, while, in contrast, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1606.0 1373.03311258 117% => OK
No of words: 308.0 270.72406181 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21428571429 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42543550573 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 145.348785872 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.594155844156 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 487.8 419.366225166 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.0856924977 49.2860985944 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.2222222222 110.228320801 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1111111111 21.698381199 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.83333333333 7.06452816374 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.138309295151 0.272083759551 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0400342471792 0.0996497079465 40% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.039338302281 0.0662205650399 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0803020742259 0.162205337803 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0348089798815 0.0443174109184 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.64 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 63.6247240618 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => 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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