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When looking for information for a research project, some students prefer to get their information mainly from the Internet. Others prefer to mainly use printed materials such as books and academic journals. Which do you prefer, and why?
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2018-09-28 | Taniazehra | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-06-26 | wls1993 | 71.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-27 | chandr | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-06-23 | ying.ma | 76.67 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-22 | jeffhjz | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 458.0 444.711560045 103% => OK
No of words: 116.0 116.580246914 100% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.94827586207 3.81502700369 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.28181803491 3.28032121604 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.01222482628 1.8723322822 107% => OK
Unique words: 68.0 76.076318743 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.586206896552 0.655143326166 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 143.1 141.574747475 101% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.179545300426 0.0738818816272 243% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 116.0 60.3232687746 192% => OK
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 44.95 22.9064221017 196% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 21.0 31.1548821549 67% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.52380952381 4.0588447711 136% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.3950510622 3.18357895611 169% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.10095238095 1.46810986539 143% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.68470685527 1.01537252472 166% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 19.0 28.6644219978 66% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 2.33 5.28593714927 44% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.122631578947 0.187982170178 65% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.120823581929 0.154715141812 78% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 39.95 35.408047138 113% => OK
Average word duration: 0.344396551724 0.306236595465 112% => OK
STD word duration: 0.226359070845 0.198589292138 114% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 13.0 6.3164983165 206% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 10.63 5.14435465769 207% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.28 2.80480359147 46% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 44.95 45.0716498316 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.998888888889 1.00159221848 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.422691879867 0.637764685501 66% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.58064516129 2.58495923209 100% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.5127919911 1.68816559523 90% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.70212765957 2.15290372801 79% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.461229568966 0.343871460585 134% => OK
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.