The reading and the lecture discuss the threats that Zebra Mussel, a freshwater shellfish which lives in Eastern Europe, invasion can cause to other fishes. The author of the reading passage presents three reasons to claim that the invasion of zebra mussel fish is unstoppable. However, the lecturer believes none of the reason could strongly explain that the invasion of the zebra mussel fishes is not treatable.
The author argues that the zebra mussels speared across freshwaters is unstoppable due to the ballast water, the water that ship needs to take on the required balance in its weight. The lecturer argues against this claim and believes that there are ways to stop this. For example, ships can be required to empty their freshwater and fill it up with ocean water across the ocean. Therefore, no zebra mussels could transport by the ships to new freshwaters.
Furthermore, the reading passage holds the view that zebra mussels can be dominant in their new habitats for some reasons such as; high rate of reproduction, well adaptation criteria, and absence of predators. Nevertheless, the lecturer illustrates that these situations are present only in the beginning. In addition, by introducing zebra mussels in new habitats, other fishes recognize them as a potential source of food. Besides, they change their feeding habits and start to hunt zebra mussels. Moreover, birds can eat zebra mussels. Consequently, there are conditions that limit the zebra mussels population.
Finally, the reading asserts that invasion of zebra mussels causes a decline in overall fish population. The lecturer opposes this point by explaining that some fish species benefit from zebra mussels. Moreover, zebra mussels bring nutrition to the bottom of the rivers. Furthermore, fishes which live and feed on the bottom of the river can use these nutritions and raise population. Accordingly, also zebra mussels cause a decline in the population of some fish species, but they cause an increase in the population of other species as well.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, besides, but, consequently, finally, furthermore, however, moreover, nevertheless, so, therefore, well, for example, in addition, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => 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: 1714.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 326.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25766871166 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66659531062 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 145.348785872 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.503067484663 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 519.3 419.366225166 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.9669181883 49.2860985944 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.2222222222 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1111111111 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.66666666667 7.06452816374 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.48608208364 0.272083759551 179% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.167717515035 0.0996497079465 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0795912723543 0.0662205650399 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.311008546153 0.162205337803 192% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00938776814463 0.0443174109184 21% => 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: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.93 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 63.6247240618 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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