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Flagship Species
Environmental organizations work to protect plants and animals whose natural habitats are threatened by human activity. One way they do this is by selecting a particular species to represent the threatened habitat to the general public. This species, called a flagship species, is one that people are likely to find attractive and interesting. The flagship species is used to raise public awareness and motivate people to take action to protect the threatened habitat. People’s support of the flagship species results in protection for all the plant and animal species living in the threatened area.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-21 | paras001 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-02 | Valeria1949 | 82.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-10-28 | nasimn | 20.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-06-02 | mgrajapt | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-11 | chandr | 86.00 | Check this speaking |
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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? 66
- People enjoy reading many different types of books such as mystery, biography, romance, etc. Of all the different types of books that there are, what type do you most enjoy? Explain why. 90
- Using the examples from the lecture, explain two developments that allowed ancient Roman cities to expand. 90
- Students often like to study with others in a group. What do you think are the benefits of group study? Give at least one benefit. Explain your reasons. 50
- Some people do not enjoy shopping and shop only when they have a specific purchase to make. Others like to go shopping for pleasure whether or not they have something to buy. Which do you prefer and why? 90
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 693.0 592.248995984 117% => OK
No of words: 167.0 155.574297189 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.1497005988 3.80514564318 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.59483629437 3.525876923 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.04332927379 1.79077849142 114% => OK
Unique words: 111.0 93.7148594378 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.664670658683 0.604071249207 110% => OK
Syllable count: 216.0 185.844578313 116% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0 0.0650381309087 0% => 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: 5.0 4.35341365462 115% => OK
Average paragraph length: 33.4 68.503853103 49% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 25.989228538 21.3332995233 122% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 11.622 25.9943957902 45% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 8.92625430962 7.84667146824 114% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 31.0 42.0642570281 74% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.38709677419 4.02192344571 134% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.27120858612 3.1217529195 169% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.74806451613 1.45093177766 120% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.51440059335 0.99851816184 152% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 31.0 39.0421686747 79% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.15 7.12997991968 86% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.198387096774 0.185688545393 107% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.194954035512 0.155154303396 126% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.9 47.1480722892 97% => OK
Average word duration: 0.274850299401 0.305395592593 90% => OK
STD word duration: 0.148670178251 0.189427763521 78% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 1.0 7.94979919679 13% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 0.77 6.2937751004 12% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.98 3.39508032129 117% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.11 59.7592369478 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.9685 0.995987282463 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.53347100327 0.656000678711 81% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.87385992084 2.60215298798 110% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.91017036655 1.56821927147 122% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.41830065359 1.99336655568 121% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.259505892216 0.317803793328 82% => OK
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.