TPO17.INTEG

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TPO17.INTEG

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This set of the material in both reading and lecture is about bird population. The reading states that due to destructive influence of human activities, the number of birds have been declining. On the other hand the lecturer mentions that all the author's reasons are unconvincing.

First, the reading posits that needs of rapidly growing human populations for new settlements will contribute to destroying more and more birds' habitats. The lecturer opposes this point by saying that although constructing building for growing population negatively affects the populations of some certain types of birds, there is a wide variety of other species have been increasing such as pigeon and seagulls, which results in settlers' complaints.

Second, the passage describes by passing times, increasing the number of human population is undeniable, so this leads to increase in needs for more food production and consequently destruction of bird's habitat. However, the lecturer explains that in USA less and less lands have been used for agricultural purposes since scientists have introduced new crops which provide people with plenty of food resources.

Finally, the reading passage claims that using chemical pesticide to produce more food resources for human population will disturb food web. The speaker refutes this point by explaining that nowadays, people have applied less toxic pesticides for growing their crops. Moreover, they have been growing resistant plants to insect; therefore, they need no pesticide for more food.

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the number of birds have been declining.
the number of birds has been declining.

Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 25 in 30
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 10 12
No. of Words: 234 250
No. of Characters: 1266 1200
No. of Different Words: 135 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.911 4.2
Average Word Length: 5.41 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.654 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 95 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 81 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 52 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 35 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.4 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.33 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.7 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.398 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.646 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.04 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4