tpo 55
Task 1
The reading and the lecture are both about the feasibility of the utilization of a device used to collect water in fighting against desertification. The author feels that this is not a good idea to stop the deterioration of the expansion of the desert. The lecturer disputes the claims made in the article. Her position is that this device is a useful gadget in protecting plants in a water-deficiency area.
According to the reading, the box-shaped device is not cost-effective because it cost 25 U.S. dollars each. Millions of dollars would be a high cost in a broad area. The argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that the devices can be used at least twenty times once the original tree has collected enough water. Therefore, the cost of these goods would be reasonable in areas that suffer from desertification.
Secondly, the author suggests that installment and management are required and should be executed by local people. But, people there have worked for a long time because of terrible financial status. There would be little momentum to help take care of the items. The speaker, however, asserts that the water collected could be distributed to other plants to help local people to grow more food. Also, the branches can be served as firewood to protect the cultivated crops.
Finally, the author points out that there is limited utility for the water collected. In other words, only a small proportion of trees can receive the benefit that the devices provide. And trees may become too big for the devices in living a harsh environment. In contrast, the lecturer’s stance is that the planted trees’ roots will grow longer to reach more water. A example showed that there are even ninety percent of trees remained well after the devices are removed.
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement The best way to truly relax and reduce stress is to spend time alone Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 87
- Summarize the points made in the lecture being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the specific points made in the reading passage 3
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is more important for governments to spend money to improve Internet access than to improve public transportation Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 90
- The extended family is less important now than it was in the past 73
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is more important to read or watch news presented by people whose views are different from your own than it is to read or watch news presented by those whose views are similar to your own Use specif 84
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
Task 1 The reading and the lecture are...
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Line 1, column 14, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
Task 1 The reading and the lecture are both abo...
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Line 8, column 368, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'An' instead of 'A' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: An
...s will grow longer to reach more water. A example showed that there are even nine...
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Line 8, column 412, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'percents'?
Suggestion: percents
...ample showed that there are even ninety percent of trees remained well after the device...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, at least, in contrast, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1496.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 302.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95364238411 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1687104957 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76772073338 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 145.348785872 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.562913907285 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 469.8 419.366225166 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.3303378761 49.2860985944 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 78.7368421053 110.228320801 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8947368421 21.698381199 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06452816374 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => 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: 0.452963749966 0.272083759551 166% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119982083093 0.0996497079465 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0801958621587 0.0662205650399 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.247332284007 0.162205337803 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0663170399273 0.0443174109184 150% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.8 13.3589403974 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.13 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.25 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
Task 1 The reading and the lecture are...
^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 14, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
Task 1 The reading and the lecture are both abo...
^^^
Line 8, column 368, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'An' instead of 'A' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: An
...s will grow longer to reach more water. A example showed that there are even nine...
^
Line 8, column 412, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'percents'?
Suggestion: percents
...ample showed that there are even ninety percent of trees remained well after the device...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, at least, in contrast, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1496.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 302.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95364238411 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1687104957 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76772073338 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 145.348785872 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.562913907285 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 469.8 419.366225166 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.3303378761 49.2860985944 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 78.7368421053 110.228320801 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8947368421 21.698381199 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06452816374 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => 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: 0.452963749966 0.272083759551 166% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119982083093 0.0996497079465 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0801958621587 0.0662205650399 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.247332284007 0.162205337803 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0663170399273 0.0443174109184 150% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.8 13.3589403974 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.13 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.25 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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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.