In the reading passage, it is mainly argued that urbanization, expansion of agricultural lands, and increase in the use of chemical pesticides causes result in a decrease in population. However, in the lecture lecturer shows how this argument is not true in every aspect.
Firstly, in the passage, it is said that as a result of expansion in human populations natural habitats of birds disappear. On the other hand, in the lecture she says that cities provide habitat for some kind of birds. Thus, although the increase in urbanization can cause a decrease in some birds population, at the same time cities increases populations of some other birds population.
Secondly, the lecturer opposite the idea made in the reading passage that agricultural lands are increasing and this means that a decrease in birds habitat accordingly. But ın the lecture she says that because of new production methods and crop types, less and less land is used for agriculture every year. That is why the idea that the amount of land used for agriculture increases is not true and the argument on decrease of bird population is either.
Lastly, in the reading passage it is written that an increase in human settlement and agriculture, the use of chemical pesticides increases and this damages the bird population. She again, refuses this in the lecture and says that there is a awareness among people about the harm of chemicals and they are using less chemical pesticides. She adds that more pest resistance crops are becoming common and this decrease of usage of pesticides. That is why it cannot be said that bird populations are decreasing because of pesticides.
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- TOEFL T P O 24 Integrated Writing Task
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 293, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'birds'' or 'bird's'?
Suggestion: birds'; bird's
...banization can cause a decrease in some birds population, at the same time cities inc...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 241, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...s in the lecture and says that there is a awareness among people about the harm o...
^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, first, firstly, however, lastly, second, secondly, so, thus, kind of, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1385.0 1373.03311258 101% => OK
No of words: 275.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03636363636 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07223819929 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82324237724 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 123.0 145.348785872 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.447272727273 0.540411800872 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 450.0 419.366225166 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.23620309051 24% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.9543352899 49.2860985944 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.416666667 110.228320801 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9166666667 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.83333333333 7.06452816374 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.236914864005 0.272083759551 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100069145515 0.0996497079465 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0695185915181 0.0662205650399 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15243334556 0.162205337803 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0342190077187 0.0443174109184 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 293, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'birds'' or 'bird's'?
Suggestion: birds'; bird's
...banization can cause a decrease in some birds population, at the same time cities inc...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 241, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...s in the lecture and says that there is a awareness among people about the harm o...
^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, first, firstly, however, lastly, second, secondly, so, thus, kind of, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1385.0 1373.03311258 101% => OK
No of words: 275.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03636363636 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07223819929 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82324237724 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 123.0 145.348785872 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.447272727273 0.540411800872 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 450.0 419.366225166 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.23620309051 24% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.9543352899 49.2860985944 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.416666667 110.228320801 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9166666667 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.83333333333 7.06452816374 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.236914864005 0.272083759551 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100069145515 0.0996497079465 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0695185915181 0.0662205650399 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15243334556 0.162205337803 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0342190077187 0.0443174109184 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 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.