In this set of materials, both the reading passage and the lecture deal the influence of the growth of the human population on the number of birds in the United States. Regarding this topic, the author asserts that the negative impacts on birds resulted from the continuously expanding agricultural activities by people is unavoidable. However, the lecturer contradicts the author’s point of view by saying that three reasons mentioned in the passage are unconvincing.
First of all, the lecture points out that even though we concede that the number of residents is growing, it does not necessarily mean that it play a role in the decreasing of birds. For instance, some people frequently complain that they have some trouble with too many birds of specific species in a city, which were increased after the human population were increased. Also, people cannot find some other specific birds in the city even though the species prey the large number of birds in the city. This counters the author’s view point that the increasing of human populations will cause to the reduced birds’ habitats.
Secondly, the author argues that the constantly growing human populations will lead to the enhancement of agriculture activities, which will collapse the bird habitats. From the lecture, however, the lecturer challenges this author’s assumption by describing an opposite opinion that in the United States, the used of lands for agriculture has reduced every year. Further, the growing of human populations will allow people to introduce more productive crops rather than expanding lands for agriculture.
Lastly, according to the lecture, there were the two trends of changes in agriculture, the first thing is the development of new less toxic chemical pesticides and the second thing is to invent new types of crops that can be able to resist against pests. These changes will prevent the number of birds from reducing by the chemical pesticides. The lecturer rebuts the author’s claim that the use of chemical pesticides in agriculture will continue to increase and it will be harmful to birds.
Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'lastly', 'regarding', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'for instance', 'first of all']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.26735218509 0.261695866417 102% => OK
Verbs: 0.143958868895 0.158904122519 91% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0616966580977 0.0723426182421 85% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0437017994859 0.0435111971325 100% => OK
Pronouns: 0.012853470437 0.0277247811725 46% => OK
Prepositions: 0.146529562982 0.128828473217 114% => OK
Participles: 0.0488431876607 0.0370669169778 132% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.84618732281 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0205655526992 0.0208969081088 98% => OK
Particles: 0.0025706940874 0.00154638098197 166% => OK
Determiners: 0.141388174807 0.128158765124 110% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0231362467866 0.0158828679856 146% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00771208226221 0.0114777025283 67% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2124.0 1645.83664459 129% => OK
No of words: 339.0 271.125827815 125% => OK
Chars per words: 6.26548672566 6.08160592843 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29091512845 4.04852973271 106% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.377581120944 0.374372842146 101% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.29203539823 0.287516216867 102% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.218289085546 0.187439937562 116% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.150442477876 0.113142543107 133% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84618732281 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.504424778761 0.539623497131 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 52.4578993482 53.8517498576 97% => OK
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0529801325 100% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0769230769 21.7502111507 120% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.8765303928 49.3711431718 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 163.384615385 132.220823453 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0769230769 21.7502111507 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.923076923077 0.878197800319 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.39072847682 0% => OK
Readability: 55.2804628999 50.5018328374 109% => OK
Elegance: 2.30769230769 1.90840788429 121% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.641122563837 0.549887131256 117% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.188388636859 0.142949733639 132% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0805575252916 0.0787303798458 102% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.704046649805 0.631733273073 111% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.0872901839759 0.139662658121 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.347506738456 0.266732575781 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106331501121 0.103435571967 103% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.54409976759 0.414875509568 131% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0504016231077 0.0530846634433 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.495418078743 0.40443939384 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0535528438158 0.0528353158467 101% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.26048565121 47% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 3.49668874172 172% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 3.62251655629 110% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 3.1766004415 31% => OK
Total topic words: 11.0 10.2958057395 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.