Glass is a favored building material for modern architecture, yet it is also very dangerous for wild birds. Because they often cannot distinguish between glass and open air, millions of birds are harmed every year when they try to fly through glass windows. There are, however, several solutions that responsible businesses can use to prevent injuries to birds.
One-Way Glass
One solution is to replace the regular, clear glass with one-way glass that is transparent in only one direction. The occupants of the building can see out, but birds and others cannot see in. If birds cannot see through a window, they will understand that the glass forms a solid barrier and will not try to fly through it.
Colorful Designs
A second solution is to paint colorful lines or other designs on regular window glass. For example, a window could have a design of thin stripes painted over the glass. People would still be able to see through the openings in the design where there is no paint, while birds would see the stripes and thus avoid trying to fly through the glass. Architects can be encouraged to include colorful painted patterns on glass as part of the general design of buildings.
Magnetic Field
The third solution is to create an artificial magnetic field to guide birds away from buildings. Humans use an instrument called a magnetic compass to determine directions—either north, south, east, or west. Bird research has shown that birds have a natural ability to sense Earth's magnetic fields; this ability works just like a compass, and it helps birds navigate in the right direction when they fly. A building in a bird flight path can be equipped with powerful electromagnets that emit magnetic signals that steer birds in a direction away from the building.
The reading passage and the lecture discuss solutions to prevent injuries from glass windows to birds. Despite that, the professor in the listening think none of the solution in the reading is effective. He casts doubt on every single point the article makes and provide his explanations to support his ideas.
To begin with, the reading passage suggests that using one-way glass for window so that birds can not see in to fly through. However, the lecturer argues that the surface of one-way glass is like a mirror. Birds do not understand the mirror and when they see the sky in the reflection they would reckon it is sky and try to fly through the glass window. As a result, the professor can not give a nod to the author in terms of the first point.
Secondly, about the colorful design, the writer indicates using some painted lines or designs to signal birds whereas the speaker holds the view that birds will still try to fly through the glass window when there is opening hole. In addition, the room will become dark due to these designs. Apparently, the professor disproves the counterpart in the reading.
Over and above that, the author thinks the magnetic field can navigate birds' direction. The lecturer, on the other hand, explains that the birds' ability of sensing magnetic fields is only used for long-distance trip such as migrate to a warm city during cold weather. The fact is that birds use their eyes and brightness of light for short-distance trip. Therefore, he can not support the solution of artificial magnetic field.
To sum up, the writer and the lecturer have conflicting views on this topic. They will have difficulties finding common grounds.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 140, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'birds'' or 'bird's'?
Suggestion: birds'; bird's
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
apparently, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, whereas, in addition, such as, as a result, to begin with, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1403.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 287.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88850174216 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46266788084 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560975609756 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 410.4 419.366225166 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.5053224909 49.2860985944 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.6875 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9375 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.9375 7.06452816374 141% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.273782533833 0.272083759551 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0742183880079 0.0996497079465 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0881931427447 0.0662205650399 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129062432573 0.162205337803 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0913054009086 0.0443174109184 206% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 13.3589403974 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 71.14 53.8541721854 132% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.0289183223 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.79 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => 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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