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When looking for information for a research project, some students prefer to get their information mainly from the Internet. Others prefer to mainly use printed materials such as books and academic journals. Which do you prefer, and why?
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 644.0 444.711560045 145% => OK
No of words: 150.0 116.580246914 129% => OK
Chars per words: 4.29333333333 3.81502700369 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.49963551158 3.28032121604 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40429245771 1.8723322822 128% => OK
Unique words: 96.0 76.076318743 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.64 0.655143326166 98% => OK
Syllable count: 215.1 141.574747475 152% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.21358024691 115% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.153205457619 0.0738818816272 207% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 150.0 60.3232687746 249% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 48.84 22.9064221017 213% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 21.0 31.1548821549 67% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 7.14285714286 4.0588447711 176% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.32098911576 3.18357895611 167% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.29666666667 1.46810986539 156% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.51303017731 1.01537252472 149% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 23.0 28.6644219978 80% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.76 5.28593714927 90% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.206956521739 0.187982170178 110% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.137285319606 0.154715141812 89% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 41.41 35.408047138 117% => OK
Average word duration: 0.276066666667 0.306236595465 90% => OK
STD word duration: 0.166312543791 0.198589292138 84% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 6.3164983165 79% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.85 5.14435465769 75% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.93 2.80480359147 33% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 48.84 45.0716498316 108% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.08533333333 1.00159221848 108% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.470925470925 0.637764685501 74% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.07125307125 2.58495923209 119% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.9656019656 1.68816559523 116% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.31828060855 2.15290372801 108% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.28275666 0.343871460585 82% => OK
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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 45 seconds.
Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.