The reading and the lecture are both about the rapid increase in cane toads in Australia. The author of the reading believes that cane toads are a threat to native animals in Australia and suggests three solutions to decline the toad population. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article. She says that those three solution does not give support to decline the toad population.
First of all, the lectures opposes the point made in the reading by saying that building a national fence won't stop them from moving to other parts. She elaborated on this by saying that most young toads and and eggs live in the streams, so the water waves will carry those young toads and eggs to other places in Australia. So, this method stated in the reading clearly rules out.
Secondly, the lecturer rebuts the point made in the reading that volunteers will not be able to stop the increase in cane toad population. She argues that the untrained volunteers will destroy other native toads in Australia, especially the endangered toads, since native toads and cane toads look alike when they are young. So, this idea is also contradicted by the lecturer.
Finally, the lecturer puts forth the idea that by introducing a disease-causing virus to control the cane toad population will harm native insects and toads in Australia and America. Furthermore, she points out that most Australian reptiles are transported to other parts of the world such as United States and other South American countries. Since, the cane toads are native to America, it will destroy all cane toads and will cause a major ecological disaster in the world. Thus, the author's final method is also refuted.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 247, 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.
...lutions to decline the toad population. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made...
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Line 3, column 205, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: and
...on this by saying that most young toads and and eggs live in the streams, so the water ...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, look, second, secondly, so, thus, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1406.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 286.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.91608391608 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45016843217 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.496503496503 0.540411800872 92% => OK
syllable_count: 430.2 419.366225166 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 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: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.9755042036 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.428571429 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4285714286 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.78571428571 7.06452816374 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.473658830923 0.272083759551 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.170713877078 0.0996497079465 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.148507147035 0.0662205650399 224% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.314929351614 0.162205337803 194% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0887136231312 0.0443174109184 200% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.67 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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