The reading passage elaborately discusses about the use of glass as a building material in modern architecture and how it poses threat to the wild birds. Birds perceive glass windows to be open space and while trying to fly through them they are harmed. The author of the passage puts forward several solutions as to how the injuries of birds can be prevented, but, all of these solutions are contradicted by the points made by the professor who also gives valid reasons to justify them.
First of all, the author proposes the use of one-way glass rather than clear glass in big buildings. This will allow the occupants to see everything that is going on outside of the building, whereas, the birds will see the reflection of themselves and understand that they should avoid flying through it. On the other hand, the professor rebuts the suggestion made by the author by saying that the birds usually do not understand the difference between a mirror and a transparent surface. As a result, if they see the reflection of a tree or the sky in the mirror, they assume them to be the real sky or tree and tries to fly into them. Thus, the first solution proposed by the author is ruled out.
Second point made by the author focuses on using glasses with colorful designs. The author asserts that using window panes with thin strips painted on the glass will enable the people to see through them as well as these stripes will prevent the birds from assuming the glass panes to be open space. Contrasting this point, the professor says that birds will not be benefited with the use of colorful glass panes as they will consider the small openings to be holes and will try to fly through it. Again, it is insisted in the lecture that using window panes with very small openings might have helped the birds, but, this will make the room very dark and the occupants will have a hard time adjusting to the darkness.
As the final solution, the author avers that buildings equipped with powerful magnetic fields that emits an artificial magnetic field can guide birds away from the building. The passage asserts that birds use their natural ability to sense Earth's magnetic field which helps them to navigate while flying. Hence, creating an artificial magnetic field around the building might help the birds from keeping away from it. But, the lecture casts doubt on this point and justifies the reason for which the point is put to question. According to the professor, the birds use their ability to navigate using the Earth's magnetic fields only when they fly long distances or while migrating from one country to another. They normally use their eyes and the brightness of light while flying across short distances or from one side of the city to other. Thus, equipping buildings with electromagnets would not be of much help to the birds. The probability of saving the birds by installing electromagnets in the buildings is also contradicted by the justification made in the lecture.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, if, second, so, thus, well, whereas, while, as to, as a result, as well as, first of all, 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: 15.0 5.04856512141 297% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 22.412803532 165% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 77.0 30.3222958057 254% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2473.0 1373.03311258 180% => OK
No of words: 517.0 270.72406181 191% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.7833655706 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76839952204 4.04702891845 118% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43215849546 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 145.348785872 157% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.441005802708 0.540411800872 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 735.3 419.366225166 175% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.2582331564 49.2860985944 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.65 110.228320801 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.85 21.698381199 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.6 7.06452816374 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.524781472323 0.272083759551 193% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.162983547918 0.0996497079465 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0862083324689 0.0662205650399 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.314908337274 0.162205337803 194% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0240049780645 0.0443174109184 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.3589403974 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 63.02 53.8541721854 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.74 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.66 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 63.6247240618 143% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => 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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