Both the article and the lecture are discussing the reasons for the decline of the sea otters from different perspectives. The article states that the sea pollution is the major cause for that and provides three reasons of support. However the professor believes that the presence of predator for the sea otter is the real explanation of this phenomenon and casts doubt on the author's reasons.
Firstly, the article claims that the water sample from places near to Alaskan coast has proved to be contaminated with chemicals that can reduce the otter resistance to the infections and thus, can be the cause of their decline. However, the professor refutes this point. She says that if the pollution was the cause behind the accelerating death of the otters, then people should be able to find thier bodies along the shore, but actually this did not happen. Furthermore, if the predator kill te then the water cannot wash them to the surface which is most likely, so, this supports the assumtion that a significab=nt predator is behaind this phenomenon.
Secondly, while the reading posits that the number of othe sea mammals have been decrased along the Alaskan coast and this provides a good support to the pollution theory since the only animals that can lead to such losses " the orcas" is actually prefer the larger animales. This point was argued by the professor. She states that it is most probably that the orcas started to feed on small sea mammels because most of the larger animals have been hunted by the Humans.
Finally, the reading argues that the uneven distribution of the otters numbers is enough support for the pollution hypothesis since the maximum reduction of the otters is found the ares of the highly pollutant water. The professor, nonthe less, refutes this point. She point out that the orcas has really huge size, so, it is hunttenig to the prey depends on the location, and if it is accessible to the orcas or not. Accordingly, most the are which has larger number of the the otters are, in fact, the rocky and shallow areas which are not accessible to the orcas.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: However,
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Suggestion: preferred
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'otters'' or 'otter's'?
Suggestion: otters'; otter's
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Suggestion: points
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Suggestion: the
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Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, actually, but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, really, second, secondly, so, then, thus, while, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 10.4613686534 201% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1750.0 1373.03311258 127% => OK
No of words: 361.0 270.72406181 133% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84764542936 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35889894354 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45658428774 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.493074792244 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 535.5 419.366225166 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 70.4094801711 49.2860985944 143% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.0 110.228320801 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7857142857 21.698381199 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.64285714286 7.06452816374 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
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: 0.281200188427 0.272083759551 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0898909550428 0.0996497079465 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0569129269262 0.0662205650399 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167029041732 0.162205337803 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0206487420303 0.0443174109184 47% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.3589403974 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.15 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 63.6247240618 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => 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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