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Some college students choose to take courses in a variety of subject areas in order to get a broad education. Others choose to focus on a single subject area in order to have a deeper understanding of that area. Which approach to course selection do you think is better for students and why?
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This speaking topic by users
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-19 | MHP | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-04-08 | Av9ash | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-13 | mgrajapt | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-01 | realbe | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-11 | chandr | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user realbe
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- Using the examples from the talk, explain how persuasive strategies are used in advertising. 66
- If you were given the choice of a school or work assignment, would you prefer to write long report or give speech in front of a large group of people? 71
- Some students would prefer to live with roommates. Other would prefer to live alone. Which would you prefer and why? 70
- Some people think that materials printed on paper, such as books and newspapers, will one day be replaced by electronic versions of those materials. Others believe that printed materials will always be popular. Which point of view do you agree with? 80
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 524.0 444.711560045 118% => OK
No of words: 127.0 116.580246914 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.12598425197 3.81502700369 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.35699682299 3.28032121604 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.11105871854 1.8723322822 113% => OK
Unique words: 92.0 76.076318743 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.724409448819 0.655143326166 111% => OK
Syllable count: 176.4 141.574747475 125% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.21358024691 115% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0789430062732 0.0738818816272 107% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 127.0 60.3232687746 211% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 46.24 22.9064221017 202% => 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: 32.0 31.1548821549 103% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.96875 4.0588447711 98% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.404816212 3.18357895611 107% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.409375 1.46810986539 96% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.17517003424 1.01537252472 116% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 32.0 28.6644219978 112% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.45 5.28593714927 141% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.2328125 0.187982170178 124% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.170096192914 0.154715141812 110% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 35.1 35.408047138 99% => OK
Average word duration: 0.276377952756 0.306236595465 90% => OK
STD word duration: 0.183224268977 0.198589292138 92% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 6.3164983165 111% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.81 5.14435465769 113% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.06 2.80480359147 73% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 46.24 45.0716498316 103% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.02755555556 1.00159221848 103% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.692041522491 0.637764685501 109% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.74653979239 2.58495923209 106% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.98961937716 1.68816559523 118% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.62108262108 2.15290372801 122% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.310370622047 0.343871460585 90% => 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.