The reading and the lecture are both about cane toads, and how they ruin the plants and native animals in australia. The author of the reading, believes that Cane Toads should be exterminated, and should get rid of them right away. The lecturer casts doubts made on the claims made in the article. He thinks that the Cane toads were Australia's fault and not their own fault.
First of all, the author points out that there were fences made, in parts of Australia that the cane toads had not colonized in. It is mentioned that this will keep the toads from expanding their colony. This point is challenged by the lecturer. He says that the fences will not always keep the toads away. Furthermore, He says that the rivers, will eventually allow them to expand farther and more.
Secondly, the author contends that, the citizens can capture them and destroy them. The article notes that the eggs are even easier to catch so that they could destroy them. The lecturer rebuts this argument. He suggests that the citizens may instead hurt other toads. He elaborates on this by stating that you might harm native toads who were there from the beginning.
Finally, the author states that scientists could create a virus. The author establishes that this virus could kill them all. The lecturer on the other hand points out that these viruses would go to north and south America and affect the Toads there. He puts forth on this idea by establishing that the toads are very native in America and killing them off would be bad.
- Some people like to travel with a companion Other people prefer to travel alone Which do you prefer Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice 87
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Boys and girls should attend separate schools Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 89
- It is commonly believed that in life success is not the most important thing It is more important to remain happy and optimistic when we fail Do you agree with this idea 83
- In 1957 a European silver coin dating to the eleventh century was discovered at a Native American archaeological site in the state of Maine in the United States Many people believed the coin had been originally brought to North America by European explore 87
- TOEFL integrated writing: Altruism. 3
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 233, 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.
... and should get rid of them right away. The lecturer casts doubts made on the claim...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, may, second, secondly, so, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 5.04856512141 257% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 22.412803532 187% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1262.0 1373.03311258 92% => OK
No of words: 267.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.7265917603 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04229324003 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.15212784295 2.5805825403 83% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52808988764 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 365.4 419.366225166 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 28.0064476703 49.2860985944 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 70.1111111111 110.228320801 64% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.8333333333 21.698381199 68% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.11111111111 7.06452816374 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 4.45695364238 247% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.390248114821 0.272083759551 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.11436612579 0.0996497079465 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0753678195194 0.0662205650399 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.233616495023 0.162205337803 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0342019422266 0.0443174109184 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.3 13.3589403974 62% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 74.19 53.8541721854 138% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.4 11.0289183223 58% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 9.56 12.2367328918 78% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.05 8.42419426049 84% => OK
difficult_words: 46.0 63.6247240618 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 65.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 19.5 Out of 30
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