The reading and the lecture are both about the invasion of a freshwater shellfish named zebra mussels to North America. While the author of the reading argues that their invasion cannot be stopped and cause a serious threat and damage to freshwater fish in North America, the professor disputes this claim. He states that the zebra mussel population can be controlled and should not be considered a severe threat. The lecturer casts doubt on the point made in the reading by providing three controversial reasons.
In the reading, the writer begins by saying that the zebra mussel invasion in the past indicates that their attack could be unstoppable. In the past, the mussels were carried by the ballast water of ships traveling from Europe to North America. However, the professor disagrees with this idea. He asserts that this phenomenon happened in the past because people did not have enough knowledge about controlling the population of zebra mussels. Also, there are some effective ways to prevent zebra mussel's from being transported by ships. The ships can empty their ballast water in the ocean instead of freshwater of North America; as a result, salt water kills them, and they do not get the chance to enter fresh water.
Furthermore, according to the reading passage, zebra mussels usually become a dominant species in a new environment since they do not have any predators. On the other hand, the professor points out that this is true that at the beginning, they have no predators, but sooner or later, local birds will change their eating habits and prey on them. Because the birds can eat many of them, their population will be controlled.
Finally, the author believes that because mussels eat plankton, they may pose a decline in the total fish population in the new habitats. Not surprisingly, the professor refutes this assertion by contending that mussels generate a nutrient that is the main food of the bottom sea fish. Therefore, mussels have a positive impact on the population of deepsea fish; however, they may have a negative effect on the population of plankton eater fish, but the overall population of fish will increase.
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- Governments should focus on solving the immediate problems of today rather than on trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future 50
- 11 Claim Nations should suspend government funding for the arts when significant numbers of their citizens are hungry or unemployed Reason It is inappropriate and perhaps even cruel to use public resources to fund the arts when people s basic needs are no 50
- The following appeared as a memorandum from the Human Resources director at Dexter Gorman Instruments a company that manufactures saxophones On this year s survey about work habits our employees tended to strongly agree with the idea that if they took les 58
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, furthermore, however, may, so, therefore, while, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 30.3222958057 158% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1807.0 1373.03311258 132% => OK
No of words: 359.0 270.72406181 133% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03342618384 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35284910392 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57910440823 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 145.348785872 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.515320334262 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 551.7 419.366225166 132% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.2478323156 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.9375 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4375 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.1875 7.06452816374 88% => 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: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.228818486905 0.272083759551 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0844933341301 0.0996497079465 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0657924066419 0.0662205650399 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138303462363 0.162205337803 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0804054424093 0.0443174109184 181% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.64 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 63.6247240618 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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