The cane toad is a large (1.8 kg) amphibian species native to Central and South America. It was deliberately introduced to Australia in 1935 with the expectation that it would protect farmers' crops by eating harmful insects. Unfortunately, the toad multiplied rapidly, and a large cane toad population now threatens small native animals that are not pests. Several measures have been proposed to stop the spread of the cane toad in Australia.
One way to prevent the spread of the toad would be to build a national fence. A fence that blocks the advance of the toads will prevent them from moving into those parts of Australia that they have not yet colonized. This approach has been used before: a national fence was erected in the early part of the twentieth century to prevent the spread of rabbits, another animal species that was introduced in Australia from abroad and had a harmful impact on its native ecosystems.
Second, the toads could be captured and destroyed by volunteers. Cane toads can easily be caught in simple traps and can even be captured by hand. Young toads and cane toad eggs are even easier to gather and destroy, since they are restricted to the water. If the Australian government were to organize a campaign among Australian citizens to join forces to destroy the toads, the collective effort might stop the toad from spreading.
Third, researchers are developing a disease-causing virus to control the cane toad populations. This virus will be specially designed: although it will be able to infect a number of reptile and amphibian species, it will not harm most of the infected species; it will specifically harm only the cane toads. The virus will control the population of cane toads by preventing them from maturing and reproducing
The reading and the lecture both talk about the cane toad that is threatening the native species in the Australia and how to control its effective aggression.Whereas the author of the reading states some proposes to stop the spread, the lecture suggests that those proposals may not as effective to control the toad as the reading expected. The lecturer casts doubts on the main points in reading by providing three reasons.
First of all, according to the reading building, a national fence can block the toad from the area where they yet to access and it can control the further colonization of the toed population. However, the lecturer disputes this point. He says that cane toad used to lay their egg beside the water area like rivers and streams which can carry the eggs and young toad to the other sides of the fence
Secondly, the reading states that cane toad and their eggs can be captured and destroyed by the volunteers through a campaign.Nevertheless, the lecturer refutes this argument. He argues that the untrained volunteers can have a dangerous implication since they can not differentiate the toad eggs thus may destroy other native species' eggs.
Finally, the reading claims that developing a disease can be an effective way to control toad. On the other hand, the lecturer believes that this might have a very negative effect since it could also hamper the other species and also since the Australian species often transfer to the other continents this disease could disperse through the whole world which might hamper the other vulnerable species.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 159, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Whereas
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Suggestion: Nevertheless
...ed by the volunteers through a campaign.Nevertheless, the lecturer refutes this argument. He...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, thus, whereas, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 10.4613686534 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 5.04856512141 257% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1325.0 1373.03311258 97% => OK
No of words: 262.0 270.72406181 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0572519084 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02323427807 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73223798561 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 131.0 145.348785872 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 391.5 419.366225166 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 32.0 21.2450331126 151% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 113.283866349 49.2860985944 230% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 165.625 110.228320801 150% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.75 21.698381199 151% => OK
Discourse Markers: 15.25 7.06452816374 216% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.124028909184 0.272083759551 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0542587315036 0.0996497079465 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0433344696576 0.0662205650399 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0826315192052 0.162205337803 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0223924968451 0.0443174109184 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.8 13.3589403974 141% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.46 53.8541721854 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.0289183223 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.66 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 10.7273730684 163% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 10.498013245 141% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 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.