Sea otters
The reading and the lecture are both about the causes of the decline in the sea otters along the western coast of North America. The author of the reading believes that the main reason why sea otters have disappeared is the pollution seas. Nevertheless, the lecturer casts doubt on the claims made by the author in the passage. She uses the following evidence to indicate that it is quite possible that the main reason for the decline in their population comes from hunting by their natural predators, orcas.
First, the lecturer posits that the theory around the pollution issues is weak because no dead otters have been found along the coast. On one hand, the evidence concerning that nobody can find a dead otter weakened the argument of the author, on the other hand this evidence strengthens the hunting theory of the lecture.
Second, the lecture states that the disappearance of otters can be contributed to the change in eating patterns of the natural predator, the orcas, whose main source of food were whales. Accidentally, the population of whales declined due to human activities, which influenced the eating pattern of orcas. Predators were forced to hunt on smaller animals, such as sea otters. However, the author of the reading contends that populations of other species who dwell in the area, such as seals and sea lions, have also been declining. Since pollution affects the entire ecosystem, no species can escape the detrimental effect of the disaster.
Moreover, the professor puts forth the idea that the absence of the decrease in number of sea otters in certain areas could be explained by the inaccessibility of those areas to orcas. They are quite large and cannot get in the shallow and rocky places, where the population of the sea otters did not decline. This counters the author’s point, according to which the uneven decline in populations is attributed to the environmental reasons.
| Post date | Users | Rates | Link to Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-01 | Soham Chinchalkar | 73 | view |
| 2023-06-01 | Soham Chinchalkar | 73 | view |
| 2023-02-13 | zaid | 73 | view |
| 2022-12-06 | Naveena0 | 73 | view |
| 2022-12-06 | Vincent Samuel | 80 | view |
- Some people say that the Internet provides people with a lot of valuable information Others think access to so much information creates problems Which view do you agree with 73
- The wooly mammoth was a prehistoric animal that resembled an elephant and lived during the Ica Age Some versions of the species are known to have survived until 6000 BCE Its extinction is best explained by a combination of climate change and over hunting 80
- Organic food 80
- It is better to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize in one specific subject 90
- Altruistic behavior 3
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: He
he reading and the lecture are both about ...
^^
Line 1, column 4, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'reads'.
Suggestion: reads
he reading and the lecture are both about the caus...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, nevertheless, so, then, well, as to, such as, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 30.3222958057 191% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 5.01324503311 319% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1831.0 1373.03311258 133% => OK
No of words: 366.0 270.72406181 135% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00273224044 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37391431897 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67188668744 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 145.348785872 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 576.0 419.366225166 137% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.7059729725 49.2860985944 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.4375 110.228320801 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.875 21.698381199 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.9375 7.06452816374 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.35863788738 0.272083759551 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.122724095912 0.0996497079465 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.123115478122 0.0662205650399 186% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.228754440626 0.162205337803 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.082704410495 0.0443174109184 187% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.3589403974 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 63.6247240618 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.