In the given set of materials, the main topic has centered on whether the population of zebra mussel, a freshwater shellfish, could be controlled or not. While the author has focused on lack of feasibility of proposed solutions, the speaker in the follow-up material cast doubt on those points by blaming human knowledge.
The first point in the article is that the history of this shellfish spreading in its original habitat, Eastern Europe, obviously proved that it might happen again in North America. However, this was questioned by the lecturer as he stated that if the "ballast water" refilled with the ocean salty water, the dispersion of the mussel would stop.
Moreover, according to the essay, different factors such as its sturdiness, highly reproduction, and lack of local predators led the mussel population to be increased. Nonetheless, the orator discussed that although it might be the case in the beginning of its arrival, some birds fed on it as their food resource.
Last but not least, the writer has stated, since both mussels and fish competed with each other for eating plankton, the fish population decreased. Conversely, according to the lecture, this species provided nutrition for a specific fish, in overall view, this assumption might not be true.
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'conversely', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'nonetheless', 'so', 'while', 'such as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.246913580247 0.261695866417 94% => OK
Verbs: 0.131687242798 0.158904122519 83% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0740740740741 0.0723426182421 102% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0411522633745 0.0435111971325 95% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0329218106996 0.0277247811725 119% => OK
Prepositions: 0.152263374486 0.128828473217 118% => OK
Participles: 0.0617283950617 0.0370669169778 167% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.81459898664 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0123456790123 0.0208969081088 59% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.131687242798 0.128158765124 103% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0205761316872 0.0158828679856 130% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0 0.0114777025283 0% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1297.0 1645.83664459 79% => OK
No of words: 208.0 271.125827815 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.23557692308 6.08160592843 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.79765784423 4.04852973271 94% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.375 0.374372842146 100% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.307692307692 0.287516216867 107% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.240384615385 0.187439937562 128% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.168269230769 0.113142543107 149% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81459898664 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 145.348785872 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.663461538462 0.539623497131 123% => OK
Word variations: 72.0737954222 53.8517498576 134% => OK
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0529801325 61% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.7502111507 120% => OK
Sentence length SD: 12.7027310056 49.3711431718 26% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 162.125 132.220823453 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0 21.7502111507 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.25 0.878197800319 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.39072847682 0% => OK
Readability: 56.7692307692 50.5018328374 112% => OK
Elegance: 2.24 1.90840788429 117% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.613063664991 0.549887131256 111% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.132454032638 0.142949733639 93% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0454131555745 0.0787303798458 58% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.744257015505 0.631733273073 118% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.0414954704492 0.139662658121 30% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.312358706119 0.266732575781 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.078073249094 0.103435571967 75% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.327817940006 0.414875509568 79% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0874925507098 0.0530846634433 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.398339553477 0.40443939384 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0832374223946 0.0528353158467 158% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.26048565121 70% => OK
Positive topic words: 1.0 3.49668874172 29% => More positive topic words wanted.
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.62251655629 83% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 3.1766004415 63% => OK
Total topic words: 6.0 10.2958057395 58% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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