In the lecture, the professor explains why the three solutions proposed in the passage to tackle the over-growing cane toad in Australia are not effective and practical.
To begin with, the passage claims that a fence can be erected to bar the movement of the toad, just like what had been done to rabbits before. However, the lecturer refutes this and argues that young toads and their eggs can not be stoped in this way, because they locate near waterway and can be spread by rivers or streams.
Secondly, the speaker rules out the possibility of recruiting volunteers. Although it is not difficult for ordinary people to kill the animal and their eggs, it is highly likely that these untrained volunteers might harm endogenous frogs as well, which are difficult to be distinguished from the cane toad.
Finally, opposing the third method in the reading material that deploying virus specifically targeting the toad can control the scale of the population, the instructor asserts that it also threatens the cane toad in their original habitats. It is not uncommon for cane toads in Australia to be taken abroad for research, for instance. Pathogens carried with them can also infect the cane toad living in Central and South America, causing disastrous damages to local ecosystem.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, third, well, for instance, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1079.0 1373.03311258 79% => OK
No of words: 213.0 270.72406181 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06572769953 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.82027741392 4.04702891845 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61629169945 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.62441314554 0.540411800872 116% => OK
syllable_count: 329.4 419.366225166 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 55.7718567021 49.2860985944 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.875 110.228320801 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.625 21.698381199 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.25 7.06452816374 159% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.428756376185 0.272083759551 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.170828356874 0.0996497079465 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0642717676389 0.0662205650399 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.231178752607 0.162205337803 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0714381617865 0.0443174109184 161% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.82 8.42419426049 117% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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