The man expresses his opinion about the proposal in the student's letter. Briefly summarize the proposal. Then state the man's opinion about the proposal and explain the reasons he gives for holding that opinion.

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The man expresses his opinion about the proposal in the student's letter. Briefly summarize the proposal. Then state the man's opinion about the proposal and explain the reasons he gives for holding that opinion.

University Should Pave Running Trails

The university has about three miles of unpaved dirt running trails that pass through the forest near campus. I think these trails should be paved with cement. One reason for paving the trails would be to increase their safety. When it rains, the dirt turns to mud and becomes very slippery, so the runners who use them can slip and fall. Pavement would solve this problem. Also, paving would make the trails look nicer, which would encourage students to use them. Bumps in the trail would be smoothed out and weeds would be paved over, making the trail more attractive to runners.

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2018-04-17 Elena Cristina 80.00 Check this speaking
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 679.0 593.389002037 114% => OK
No of words: 174.0 154.784114053 112% => OK
Chars per words: 3.90229885057 3.82920900774 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.63192868298 3.52088357496 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.85283113668 1.81998168104 102% => OK
Unique words: 107.0 93.7942973523 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.614942528736 0.608046397892 101% => OK
Syllable count: 213.3 185.724439919 115% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.012149622949 0.0833886788687 15% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.90020366599 51% => OK
Average paragraph length: 87.0 71.3690273242 122% => OK
STD paragraph length: 48.0 24.1299301424 199% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 30.165 26.8388033085 112% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 16.855 8.89323425527 190% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 34.0 40.266802444 84% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.11764705882 4.20756893501 122% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.93346737559 3.23972648638 152% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.74823529412 1.51236819293 116% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.16475564362 1.0352206224 113% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 31.0 37.9022403259 82% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.69 7.22384928717 93% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.215806451613 0.193825474362 111% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.164919808344 0.16431695912 100% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 50.72 46.6644602851 109% => OK
Average word duration: 0.291494252874 0.304040633073 96% => OK
STD word duration: 0.174576852856 0.193491353168 90% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 13.0 8.88594704684 146% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 9.42 6.97134419552 135% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.82 3.21433808554 26% => Good job. The lower, the better.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.33 59.1375356415 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.0055 0.985625594026 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.513840543676 0.643888735843 80% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.88413724515 2.61565628039 110% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.77357865075 1.58604529434 112% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.1096214511 2.01333574461 105% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.286061965517 0.322651457988 89% => 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.