The reading passage discusses an interesting topic about the decline of otter population by giving three support reasons about how the pollution, and not the predators action, is causing the decline. On the other hand, the lecture challenges the reasons exposed by the reading passage, one by one. According to the lecturer, the predators are the real cause of the decreased number of otters.
First of all, the reading passage states how pollution affects otter population by provoking illness and infections to the animals. On the contrary, the lecture argues that there is no evidence of dead animals found on the cost. Moreover, this lack of dead bodies supports the idea of predators as the main cause of the decline of the otter population. By the same token, predators would eat the animal without leaving any trace of it.
Second, according to the lecture, big mammals, as orcas, could have changed their habits of hunting including small mammals in their diet, and not only big mammals as seals and sea lions. This argument refutes the point states by the reading passage.
Finally, the lecture explains that the uneven pattern of otter decline is coincident to the possibility of the orcas to approach to areas of deep water and the impossibility to access to shallow water. Thus, the lecture disagrees with the reading passage that supports the pollution as a factor of otter population decline.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 159, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'predators'' or 'predator's'?
Suggestion: predators'; predator's
...ns about how the pollution, and not the predators action, is causing the decline. On the ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, moreover, second, so, thus, as to, first of all, on the contrary, by the same token, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 10.4613686534 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 12.0772626932 25% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 22.412803532 36% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1182.0 1373.03311258 86% => OK
No of words: 234.0 270.72406181 86% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05128205128 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91114542567 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53522196806 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 145.348785872 87% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.538461538462 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 368.1 419.366225166 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.2469118915 49.2860985944 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.454545455 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2727272727 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.7272727273 7.06452816374 152% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
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: 0.238151022197 0.272083759551 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0799670898237 0.0996497079465 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0538650570367 0.0662205650399 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138349530107 0.162205337803 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0295800104472 0.0443174109184 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.01 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.0 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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