The reading and the lecture are both about creating artificial reefs. While the author of the reading passage argues that creating artificial reefs has numerous boons, the professor disputes this claim. He states that many scientists believe that these reefs are likely to give rise to many difficulties and problems. The lecturer casts doubt on the main point mentioned in the essay by providing three controversial reasons.
In the article, the author begins by saying that artificial reefs will attract different species of fish, and since they have a safe place to reproduce, the total number of fish will increase. However, the professor repudiates this idea. He asserts that the existence of artificial reefs would attract many other fishes that once lived in other areas. As a result, these new types of fish will be caught by fishers, and because they cannot maintain their population, the overall number of fish will decline.
Furthermore, according to the text, small-scale fishers can create their own artificial reefs and put them in a secret location of which they only are aware. On the other hand, the professor points out that installing artificial reefs in a secret location and preventing others from knowing that brings about many safety issues. For instance, fishers using big nets to catch fish may lose their nets because their nets might be entangled in these reefs. Also, the boats may crash into these reefs in shallow parts of the ocean. If the location of these reefs were known to the public, the local fishers would not be able to compete with big corporations.
Finally, the writer believes that constructing artificial reefs is an environmentally friendly action since these reefs are made out of recyclable material from which detrimental chemicals have been removed. Not surprisingly, the lecturer refutes this assertion by contending that these reefs might still cause damage to the environment even if the harmful chemical substances are removed. For instance, in Ozborn reefs, the tires were used to create artificial reefs, but after a storm, these tires loosed and crashed into the seafloor. Consequently, they caused damage to marine animals living on the seafloor.
To sum up, both the lecturer and the author hold conflicting views on the beneficial impacts of artificial reefs.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, furthermore, however, if, may, so, still, while, for instance, as a result, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 30.3222958057 165% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1957.0 1373.03311258 143% => OK
No of words: 375.0 270.72406181 139% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21866666667 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40055868397 4.04702891845 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61604485181 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 145.348785872 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525333333333 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 591.3 419.366225166 141% => 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: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.7416658729 49.2860985944 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.722222222 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8333333333 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.66666666667 7.06452816374 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.150870668242 0.272083759551 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0479234113116 0.0996497079465 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0299518296045 0.0662205650399 45% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0762767970891 0.162205337803 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0394358236162 0.0443174109184 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.3589403974 102% => 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: 13.0 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 63.6247240618 146% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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