Although the sale of rhinoceros horns is illegal worldwide rhinoceroses Rhinos are commonly poached hunted illegally for their horns which can be sold for tens of thousands of dollars per kilogram Rhino horns are so valuable that one type of rhino is alre

The reading passage suggests three options for saving rhinos, which are on the verge of extinction. However, the professor points out that each solution has significant flaws.

The reading suggests that rhinos may be "dehorned" so that poachers can stop killing rhinos. Dehorning, on the other hand, according to the professor, is neither practical nor beneficial to rhino survival. The reason is dehorning takes time and money because you have to track them down in the wild, prepare for surgery, and then remove their horns. Furthermore, even if you have the time and money, dehorning rhinos may reduce their chances of survival. Rhinos have horns for good reasons, such as digging for water or protecting their young. Dehorning may make them less appealing to poachers, but it also puts them at a disadvantage in the wild.

Second, the professor doubts that educating consumers about the healing powers of horns will help them change their minds. She says educating consumers can only work when consumers do not have strong opinions about something, but for such strong beliefs that they have held for thousands of years, new scientific evidence would be unlikely to easily change their mind.

The professor retorts to the reading's final solution, which is to legalize government sales of rhino horns, saying that this would result in an unpredictable outcome. To be more specific, many people who want a rhino horn today may not buy it simply because it is illegal; however, if buying a rhino horn becomes legal, more people may begin to buy it, resulting in a dramatic increase in demand. A higher demand will result in a higher price, which may entice poachers to continue killing them in order to meet this large and lucrative market.

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Average: 8 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, may, second, so, then, such as, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1471.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 290.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0724137931 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62528861445 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 145.348785872 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.596551724138 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 442.8 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.3000464667 49.2860985944 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.153846154 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3076923077 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.61538461538 7.06452816374 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.251291527063 0.272083759551 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0861911706686 0.0996497079465 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0686402563072 0.0662205650399 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131640794089 0.162205337803 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0537886010779 0.0443174109184 121% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.3589403974 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.81 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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