The reading and the lecture are both about the cane toad, which is an amphibian species that has been introduced to Australia because it gives protection to farmers, but now it is threatening native animals. The author purposes several measures to stop this animal’s propagation. The professor brings into question the ideas made in the article. He considers that they will be unsuccessful and could damage the nature.
First, the author comes up with the idea that a national fence could block the spreading of the cane toad. It is mentioned that this approach was successful in the past with the spread of rabbits, which threatened native species as well. However, the lecturer argues that the fence worked with rabbits because they were not aquatic animals, but the cane toads are, and indeed, the rivers and streams will be another way of invasion of this species.
Second, the author states that volunteering members could capture or destroy Cane toads because they are easy to catch. The article notes that young toads and eggs are actually easy to gather and destroy. Therefore, working on a team might stop this spreading. The professor rebuts this argument by pointing out that it will difficult for untrained volunteers to catch these species because they could also kill native (endangered of extinction) frogs which are usually with the cane toads. Consequently, they will exterminate frogs as well.
Third, the author contends that a virus will help to control cane toad populations, and although it will kill some reptilian and amphibian species, it will exterminate cane loads. The professor, on the other hand, posits that the Americas will suffer consequences with this measure due to the fact that cane toads will come back by means of researcher or pet collectors, and will bring the virus. As a result, there will be an ecological disaster.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 286, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...to stop this animal's propagation. The professor brings into question the idea...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, consequently, first, however, if, second, so, therefore, third, well, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 5.04856512141 317% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1567.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 308.0 270.72406181 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08766233766 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57639843423 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.555194805195 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 468.0 419.366225166 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.51434878587 330% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.5791159913 49.2860985944 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.466666667 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5333333333 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.06666666667 7.06452816374 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 4.45695364238 269% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.479761728759 0.272083759551 176% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.156232962071 0.0996497079465 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0869822889557 0.0662205650399 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.30488418721 0.162205337803 188% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0458436660406 0.0443174109184 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.3589403974 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 63.6247240618 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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