In recent years, many frog species around the world have declined in numbers or even gone extinct due to changes in their environment. These population declines and extinctions have serious consequences for the ecosystems in which frogs live; for example, frogs help play a role in protecting humans by eating disease-carrying insects. Several methods have been proposed to solve the problem of declining frog populations.
First, frogs are being harmed by pesticides, which are chemicals used to prevent insects from damaging farm crops such as corn and sugarcane. Pesticides often spread from farmland into neighboring frog habitats. Once pesticides enter a frog’s body, they attack the nervous system, leading to severe breathing problems. If laws prohibited the farmers from using harmful pesticides near sensitive frog populations, it would significantly reduce the harm pesticides cause to frogs.
A second major factor in frog population decline is a fungus that has spread around the world with deadly effect. The fungus causes thickening of the skin, and since frogs use their skin to absorb water, infected frogs die of dehydration. Recently, researchers have discovered several ways to treat or prevent infection, including antifungal medication and treatments that kill the fungus with heat. Those treatments, if applied on a large scale, would protect sensitive frog populations from infection.
Third, in a great many cases, frog populations are in decline simply because their natural habitats are threatened. Since most frog species lay their eggs in water, they are dependent on water and wetland habitats. Many such habitats are threatened by human activities, including excessive water use or the draining of wetlands to make them suitable for development. If key water habitats such as lakes and marshes were better protected from excessive water use and development, many frog species would recover.
The reading and the lecture are both about the possible ways to protect frog population from declining. The author provides three methods to solve the problem. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. She mentions that none of them offer a solution and there is a problem for all of them.
First, the author argues that by enacting laws they can prohibit the farmers from using harmful pesticides adgacent to sensitive frog population. The professor, on the other hand says that using pesticides is not economical and practical for farmers. If farmers have to obbey the laws it will be expensive for them so they woul not use them and it will reduce their crop.
Another suggested reason by the writer is that frogs are dying of deseas therefore, by using antifungal medication the can kill the fungus that kill frogs. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning that they must apply the treatment indivisually for each frog. Also, by doing this it will not prevent the offsprings from getting it from their parents so it do not helping it from passing to the offspring.
Yet another explanation is to protect water habitats such as lakes and marshes. In contrast, the lecturer's position is that while it is a good idea but it will not save frogs population. She says that the real threat is global warming which is the cause of decline in most species and if we just put our endeavors to protect wetlands it will not help the situation alone.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, so, therefore, while, in contrast, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1223.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 255.0 270.72406181 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.79607843137 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99608801488 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48034178047 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 145.348785872 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.576470588235 0.540411800872 107% => 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: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.8959836495 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.0769230769 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6153846154 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.07692307692 7.06452816374 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.143545787898 0.272083759551 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0450635289729 0.0996497079465 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.032519896175 0.0662205650399 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0802339128288 0.162205337803 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0114373239705 0.0443174109184 26% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 53.8541721854 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 11.0289183223 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.56 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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