TPO-48 - Integrated Writing Task In recent years, many frog species around the world have declined in numbers or even gone extinct due to changes in their environment. These population declines and extinctions have serious consequences for the ecosystems

Essay topics

The topic is about the population decline of frog species. The reading passage introduces three methods to solve the problem. However, the lecturer rejects each of the methods as unpractical solutions.

The first method mentioned in the reading passage is to reduce the use of pesticides. The lecturer indicates that reducing the use of pesticide is not ecosystem practical or fair. Reduced use of pesticides will decrease the production of crops, leaving the farmer less competitive than others who do not follow the law of reducing the use. This method will lose more crops. This is the first obvious divergence where the lecturer disagrees with the reading passage.

Second, the reading passage suggests that the treatment or prevention of fungus will protect the frog population. The lecturer says this method is unlikely to succeed in a large scale because it requires individually treatment. Also, the treatment is unable to be passed on to the offspring, which means the treatment needs to be applied again and again on the future generation. This is the second explicit point where the lecturer challenges the reading.

The last method presented in the reading passage is to protect the key water habitats of the frog from excessive water use. The lecturer argues that global warming is actually the biggest threaten of the frog population, not the overuse of water habitats. Global warming cause many species to go extinct. Therefore, protecting the water habitats is unlikely to change the situation. This is the third point which the lecturer uses to clarify that the three methods in the reading passage is unpractical.

Votes
Average: 7.9 (3 votes)
Essay Categories

Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, however, if, second, so, therefore, third

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 10.0 22.412803532 45% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1378.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 265.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03470204552 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65874163551 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.501886792453 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 429.3 419.366225166 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.3446807152 49.2860985944 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 81.0588235294 110.228320801 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.5882352941 21.698381199 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.76470588235 7.06452816374 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
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: 0.273879595276 0.272083759551 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0925382857949 0.0996497079465 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0890357237763 0.0662205650399 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.166100577192 0.162205337803 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0817647842522 0.0443174109184 184% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.58 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.85 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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because it requires individually treatment.
because it requires individually a/the treatment.
because it requires an individual treatment.

is actually the biggest threaten
is actually the biggest threat

Definitions of threaten
verb
state one's intention to take hostile action against someone in retribution for something done or not done.
the unions threatened a general strike

the three methods in the reading passage is unpractical.
the three methods in the reading passage are unpractical.

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flaws:
No. of Grammatical Errors: 3 2

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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 24 in 30
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 3 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 12
No. of Words: 265 250
No. of Characters: 1340 1200
No. of Different Words: 125 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.035 4.2
Average Word Length: 5.057 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.564 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 106 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 88 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 52 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 15.588 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.127 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.529 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.347 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.535 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.076 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4