TPO-10 - Integrated Writing Task The sea otter is a small mammal that lives in waters along the western coast of North America from California to Alaska. When some sea otter populations off the Alaskan coast started rapidly declining a few years ago, it c

The author claims that main reason in decline of sea otter is due to pollution and provides three reasons. However, the listening confute the author claims and negates each of the author reasons.

First, the author says that rise in chemical level around the habitat of otter have provoked decline in otter's number. The professors refutes this point by saying that if it is due to pollution, then why there are not otters body floating in ocean?

Second, the article posits that because of pollution, there is also decrease in other number of sea mammals. The professor, however, says that the decrease in other mammals such as whale is due to of human hunters. According to professor, since decrease in number of whale , which is a primary prey of otter, have caused otter to leave their habitat.

Third, The reading says that difference in number of otter at various regions are due to uneven pollution distribution by environmental factor such as ocean current. However, the professor explains that the basic difference may be due to discrepancy in otter's predator in various location. We have learned that the otter in shallow water the are of relatively small size, thus making them hard to hunt.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 135, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'refute'.
Suggestion: refute
...ecline in otters number. The professors refutes this point by saying that if it is due ...
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Line 5, column 273, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...essor, since decrease in number of whale , which is a primary prey of otter, have ...
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Line 7, column 339, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...learned that the otter in shallow water the are of relatively small size, thus making t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, second, so, then, third, thus, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => OK
Pronoun: 13.0 22.412803532 58% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1007.0 1373.03311258 73% => OK
No of words: 203.0 270.72406181 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.960591133 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.77462671648 4.04702891845 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49109814602 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 112.0 145.348785872 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.551724137931 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 314.1 419.366225166 75% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 19.962214306 49.2860985944 41% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 100.7 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.4 7.06452816374 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More 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: 0.289726903577 0.272083759551 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.123371246055 0.0996497079465 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.055087353067 0.0662205650399 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.174708969315 0.162205337803 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0508166556164 0.0443174109184 115% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 49.0 63.6247240618 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
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: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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