In the past century, the steady growth of the human population and the corresponding increase in agriculture and pesticide use have caused much harm to wildlife in the United States,birds in particular. Unfortunately for birds, these trends are likely to continue, with the result that the number of birds in the United States will necessarily decline.
First, as human populations and settlements continue to expand, birds' natural habitats will continue to disappear. Forests, wetlands, and grasslands will give way to ever more homes, malls, and offices. As the traditional areas suitable for birds keep decreasing, so will the size of the bird populations that depend on those vanishing habitats.
Second, agricultural activities must increase to keep pace with the growing human population. The growth of agriculture will also result in the further destruction of bird habitats as more and more wilderness areas are converted to agricultural use. As a result, bird populations in rural areas will continue to decline.
Third, as human settlements expand and agriculture increases, the use of chemical pesticides will also increase. Pesticides are poisons designed to kill agricultural and home garden pests, such as insects, but inevitably, pesticides get into the water and into the food chain for birds where they can harm birds. Birds that eat the poisoned insects or drink contaminated water can die as a result, and even if pesticides do not kill birds outright, they can prevent them from reproducing successfully. So pesticides have significantly contributed to declines in bird population, and because there will continue to be a need to control agricultural pests in the future, this decline will continue.
Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they challenge the specific points made reading passage.
The reading and the lecture provides two contrasting views on how the increase in human population and agriculture can affect the wildlife, especially the bird population. On one hand, as per the reading, it is predicted that bird population will see a decline, on the other, the lecturer counter attacks reading’s view by making pertinent points.
First of all, the lecturer believes that the reading’s position is flawed in saying that there will be uniform decline in the bird’s population with increase in human population. She believes that even though, some population of bird might be affected with the proliferation of human habitat, there will still be myriad number of bird species like pigeons, hawks who will benefit from the change. She adds up to her claim saying that these species are continuously found in the cities.
Second, on contrary to what is posited in the reading-the increase in agriculture will replace the wilderness with the agricultural land-the lecturer posits that increase in agriculture is because of increase in the high productive crops and not because of increase in agricultural lands. She even provides example of United States to support her point. In United States, there have been no or little increase in the agricultural land prior to increase in agriculture.
Lastly, according to the reading, the increase in pesticides can hamper the food chain of the bird and affect them. The lecturer once again counterattacks the claim adding: although pesticides are harmful for birds and can cause a decline in bird population, there have been efforts to make less toxic pesticides and pest resistive crops to tackle this issue. Hence, she believes that bird population should not decline at least because of pesticides.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...pos;s view by making pertinent points. First of all, the lecturer believes that...
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Line 5, column 389, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
...oint. In United States, there have been no or little increase in the agricultural ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, hence, if, lastly, second, so, still, at least, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1500.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 284.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.28169014085 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10515524023 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88064325015 2.5805825403 112% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 145.348785872 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517605633803 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 466.2 419.366225166 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.1768483037 49.2860985944 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.363636364 110.228320801 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8181818182 21.698381199 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.09090909091 7.06452816374 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 4.45695364238 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.25201718064 0.272083759551 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0983752658876 0.0996497079465 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0514048141677 0.0662205650399 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148957433851 0.162205337803 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0348168287237 0.0443174109184 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 13.3589403974 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.64 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 10.7273730684 144% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.2008830022 143% => 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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