TPO-15 - Integrated Writing Task The cane toad is a large (1.8 kg) amphibian species native to Central and South America. It was deliberately introduced to Australia in 1935 with the expectation that it would protect farmers' crops by eating harmful insec

The reading states that the large cane toad population is threatening small native animals in Australia. The cane toad is native to Central and South America and has been introduced to Australia in order to protect farmers’ corps by eating the insects. The author proposes some measures to stop the spread of the cane toad in Australia and provides three reasons of support. On the other hand, in the listening passage, the professor explains that the proposed measures are unsuccessful and probably would have unwanted consequences, and refutes each of the author's reasons.

First, the reading claims that a national fence will prevent the cane toads from spreading to those parts of Australia that they have not yet colonized. Moreover, his approach was examined successfully for rabbits’ population controlling in the early part of the twentieth century. However, the professor argues that the national fence might stop the crane toad spreading but it would be inefficient in the places in which streams and rivers flow through the fence. Since, the young toads as well as toad’s eggs can penetrate to other side of the fence and eventually the other side’s toad population will be increased.

Second, that if the Australian government were to organize a campaign of volunteers to capture the toads and destroy the collection of toad's eggs, these collective effort would prevent the spread of toads is refuted by the professor in the listening passage. She states that these untrained volunteers would endanger the native nondestructive frogs. The native frogs of Australia are resemble to the crane toad when they are young, thus it is not easy to discriminate them.

Third, the article claims that an especially designed virus which is developed by researchers will be able to control the population of the crane toads. This virus is especially designed to prevent the crane toad from maturing and reproducing. The professor casts doubt on this approach by saying that it would have terrible consequences to the cane toad’s original habitats. She explains that the virus would infect the crane toads as well as a number of reptile and amphibian species in Australia. The researchers and pet collectors get these species transported from Australia to Central and South America, the native habitat of toads. In other words, transported virus might attack the native crane toads and consequently destruct their population. As a result, the whole ecosystem would suffer from the transported virus.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 259, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...mers' corps by eating the insects. The author proposes some measures to stop t...
^^^
Line 5, column 385, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'resembled'.
Suggestion: resembled
...rogs. The native frogs of Australia are resemble to the crane toad when they are young, ...
^^^^^^^^

Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'consequently', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'second', 'so', 'third', 'thus', 'well', 'as to', 'as a result', 'as well as', 'in other words', 'on the other hand']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.271523178808 0.261695866417 104% => OK
Verbs: 0.154525386313 0.158904122519 97% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0772626931567 0.0723426182421 107% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0353200883002 0.0435111971325 81% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0220750551876 0.0277247811725 80% => OK
Prepositions: 0.110375275938 0.128828473217 86% => OK
Participles: 0.0441501103753 0.0370669169778 119% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.81024134582 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0309050772627 0.0208969081088 148% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.130242825607 0.128158765124 102% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0286975717439 0.0158828679856 181% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00662251655629 0.0114777025283 58% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2531.0 1645.83664459 154% => OK
No of words: 403.0 271.125827815 149% => OK
Chars per words: 6.28039702233 6.08160592843 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48049772903 4.04852973271 111% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.379652605459 0.374372842146 101% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.29776674938 0.287516216867 104% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.233250620347 0.187439937562 124% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.153846153846 0.113142543107 136% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81024134582 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 145.348785872 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.471464019851 0.539623497131 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 50.8013911757 53.8517498576 94% => OK
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0529801325 138% => OK
Sentence length: 22.3888888889 21.7502111507 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.4659994715 49.3711431718 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.611111111 132.220823453 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3888888889 21.7502111507 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.888888888889 0.878197800319 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.39072847682 59% => OK
Readability: 52.1655638269 50.5018328374 103% => OK
Elegance: 2.01041666667 1.90840788429 105% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.827736283409 0.549887131256 151% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.161165203404 0.142949733639 113% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0633845358713 0.0787303798458 81% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.611305020983 0.631733273073 97% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.101839100179 0.139662658121 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.401746015574 0.266732575781 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110833805204 0.103435571967 107% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.550819929758 0.414875509568 133% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0294756454135 0.0530846634433 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.668381911898 0.40443939384 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.014382344066 0.0528353158467 27% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.26048565121 70% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 3.49668874172 172% => OK
Negative topic words: 8.0 3.62251655629 221% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 3.1766004415 63% => OK
Total topic words: 16.0 10.2958057395 155% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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