TOEFL integrated writing: communal online encyclopedia

The reading passage casts doubt on the communal on line encyclopedia by stating three criticisms. The listening passage however, advocates this kind of encyclopedia, refuting the criticisms that are mentioned in the reading passage.

First of all, according to the reading passage the communal on line encyclopedia renders a lot of errors, due to the contribution of many users who does not have a clear academic background. Nevertheless, The professor in the listening passage claims that even traditional encyclopedia do exhibit some errors. She also clarifies that at least these errors could b...

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Score: 28 in 30
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 11 9
No. of Words: 263 250
No. of Characters: 1381 1200
No. of Different Words: 131 120
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.027 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.251 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.873 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 103 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 88 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 53 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.909 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.786 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.727 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.439 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.654 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.172 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4