sea otter population decrease
The reading and the lecture are both about decrease in sea otter population. The author provides three theories to prove that environmental pollution is the most likely drawback of sea otter population decrease. In contrary, the professor is not convinced of this and cast doubts on each of the theories presented in the reading. This lecturer is of the opinion that based on the accurate evidence and observations, predation can motive this population decrease.
To begin with, the author argues that the existence of many sources of environmental pollution in Alaskan coast such as oil rigs alongside with experimenting water sample that reveals high level of chemical pollution authenticate the pollution theory. This argument is challenged by the lecturer. According to the professor, if this theory was the main reason of the population reduction, many dead bodies of these creatures would be washing up in beach; whereas the predators are unable to leave such an evidence behind. Furthermore, the lecturer asserts that finding no evidence of dead sea otter support the theory of predation.
Secondly, the writer disputes that, the decline in other mammals such as sea lions can be delineated by whatever that is responsible for sea otter’s death. Moreover, it is stated in the article that predator like Orca hunts large prey such as whales. In contrast, the lecturer stance is that other mammals’ death is, again, has something to do with predation. The professor elaborates on this idea by bringing up the point that when human hunts lead to whale disappear, sea otter change its diet and eats mammals. This food chain confirms the population decrease.
Finally, the author averts that uneven population reduction certify the environmental cause. To delineate, ocean currents and other natural factors accounts for the population reduction. The lecturer opposes this notion by asserting that this phenomenon is happened because of the predators’ accessibility to sea otters. It puts forth to the idea that Orca has no access to shallow or rocky parts of the ocean; hence, the population of otters fluctuate or decrease in specific parts.
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- : Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the points made in the reading passage. You have 20 minutes to type your response. 60
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, furthermore, hence, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, whereas, in contrast, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 30.3222958057 162% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 5.01324503311 459% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1813.0 1373.03311258 132% => OK
No of words: 344.0 270.72406181 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27034883721 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30665032142 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81606535926 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 145.348785872 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.552325581395 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 565.2 419.366225166 135% => 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: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => 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: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.8249705031 49.2860985944 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.647058824 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2352941176 21.698381199 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.76470588235 7.06452816374 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 4.45695364238 224% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.350766631366 0.272083759551 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111241802577 0.0996497079465 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107040183882 0.0662205650399 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.233235215825 0.162205337803 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0869700004769 0.0443174109184 196% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.31 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 63.6247240618 160% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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