In recent years, many frog species around the world have declined in numbers or even gone extinct due to changes in their environment. These population declines and extinctions have serious consequences for the ecosystems in which frogs live; for example, frogs help play a role in protecting humans by eating disease-carrying insects. Several methods have been proposed to solve the problem of declining frog populations.
First, frogs are being harmed by pesticides, which are chemicals used to prevent insects from damaging farm crops such as corn and sugarcane. Pesticides often spread from farmland into neighboring frog habitats. Once pesticides enter a frog’s body, they attack the nervous system, leading to severe breathing problems. If laws prohibited the farmers from using harmful pesticides near sensitive frog populations, it would significantly reduce the harm pesticides cause to frogs.
A second major factor in frog population decline is a fungus that has spread around the world with deadly effect. The fungus causes thickening of the skin, and since frogs use their skin to absorb water, infected frogs die of dehydration. Recently, researchers have discovered several ways to treat or prevent infection, including antifungal medication and treatments that kill the fungus with heat. Those treatments, if applied on a large scale, would protect sensitive frog populations from infection.
Third, in a great many cases, frog populations are in decline simply because their natural habitats are threatened. Since most frog species lay their eggs in water, they are dependent on water and wetland habitats. Many such habitats are threatened by human activities, including excessive water use or the draining of wetlands to make them suitable for development. If key water habitats such as lakes and marshes were better protected from excessive water use and development, many frog sp
The reading passage give out a few methods to deal with the problem of decreasing number og frog species, however, the lecturer believes those methods aren't useful at all.
The first method is to restrict pesticides use of farms that have frog habitats nearby, the lecturer think it is unfair to those farmers owning the farms, causing problems to them. As farmers use pesticide to prevent insects' damage, prohibiting the use of pesticides will cause the crop loss and number of crop yields, hence causing unfairness between farms that have frog habitat near it and farms don't.
The second solution is treating the fungus problem in frogs that cause death in their population, what refute this solution is its complexity and cost of it. In order to cure the infection, infected frogs have to be caught and treated individually, it is difficulty in doing so, moreover, the treatment does not prevent the infected frogs passing the disease to their offsprings, meaning that this method need to be repeated again and again, hence the cost is expensive.
Lastly, the reading passage suggest that human's excessive water use threatens the frog habitats, but the problem of this statement is that excessive water use if not the main reason causing the threat, which the real soure should be global warming instead. Focusing on the water usage is useless unless the bigger threat is solved.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, lastly, moreover, second, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1170.0 1373.03311258 85% => OK
No of words: 231.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06493506494 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89854898053 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42269585795 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 145.348785872 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.571428571429 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 347.4 419.366225166 83% => 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: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 13.0662251656 54% => 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: 33.0 21.2450331126 155% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 71.0165258146 49.2860985944 144% => OK
Chars per sentence: 167.142857143 110.228320801 152% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.0 21.698381199 152% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.57142857143 7.06452816374 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 4.33554083885 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.119016775631 0.272083759551 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0550866291285 0.0996497079465 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0278145399698 0.0662205650399 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0677490805074 0.162205337803 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0262500260361 0.0443174109184 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.9 13.3589403974 141% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.44 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.0289183223 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.66 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.31 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 10.498013245 145% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 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.