TPO-10 - Integrated Writing Task The sea otter is a small mammal that lives in waters along the western coast of North America from California to Alaska. When some sea otter populations off the Alaskan coast started rapidly declining a few years ago, it c
The reading states that the sea otter population in the Alaskan coast started decreasing and it caused much concern because of an important ecological role of these species in the coastal ecosystem. It claimed that two possible explanations for this decline can be provided including environmental pollution or predation. The lecturer, meanwhile, casts serious doubts on this claim by presenting some counter-arguments and examples. She believes that the predation can be the main cause and other explanations are not tangible enough to be supported.
To begin with, the reading passage claims that pollution can be the main cause that there were known sources of it along the Alaskan Coast, such as oil rigs and other sources of industrial chemical pollution. Thus, these chemicals may result in these species death. The lecturer rejects this claim and believes that there is no evident because no sea otter found dead on the nearby beaches. She states that this can be justified by the predation effect in this area.
Second, although the reading passage declares that the asthe orca does not affect the decline in the sea mammals, the lecturer makes the argument that these whales are fed by the sea otters. She comments that these whales after the disappearance of the sea otters changed their diet and started eating other sea mammals. Thus, the main reason for the decline of the other sea mammals and sea otters is just the predation of the whales.
Third, in contrast to the reading passage stating that ocean currents or other environmental factors may have created the irregular concentration of pollution along the coast, the lecturer rejects this claim and says that this decline can only relate to the number of the orca whales in the area. She declares that orca whales leave in large places and they cannot survive in the shallow and rocky areas, so the main reason for this phenomenon is the presence of these whales. She also adds that observations prove this claim that sea otter population is more in rocky and shallow places.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, may, second, so, third, thus, while, in contrast, such as, in contrast to, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 22.412803532 178% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 5.01324503311 279% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1710.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 341.0 270.72406181 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0146627566 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29722995808 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55323014726 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.463343108504 0.540411800872 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 522.0 419.366225166 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.3163852243 49.2860985944 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.142857143 110.228320801 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3571428571 21.698381199 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06452816374 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.395171024109 0.272083759551 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.142510665166 0.0996497079465 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0936065482724 0.0662205650399 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.254543919258 0.162205337803 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0174873416174 0.0443174109184 39% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.3589403974 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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