Zoos and the lecture "not-in-support"
The reading passage highlights the benefits of zoos and gives examples with them. The lecture states that these claims made by the author are unfounded. Highlighting how the treatment of animals is not always humane and healthy, emphasis on entertainment than education, problems related to interbreeding amongst offsprings which works against helping endangered species.
The lecturer states that the author is not completely correct about the state of treatment in zoos. Further adding that zookeepers can be negligent towards taking care of animals. Citing an example about death of red pandas in a zoo due to rat poison, the lecturer points at negligence of zookeepers, who were not present at the site of accident. Hence, zoos can't be guaranteed as places were animals are treated with utmost care.
Furthermore, the lecturer highlights how zoos are still perceived as sites of entertainment than education. Zoos inhabit animals which wouldencourage more visitors to come, has no connection with educating them about these animals. Also, the animals whose knowledge is important to disseminate, as often deprioritized against animals which would attract more crowd. The lecturer also suggest that even though animal education is favored, it gives a wrong message to the visitors that animals can be caged for the sake of spreading a message.
Lastly, the lecturer challenges the example stated in the reading passage which supports that zoos are great places which contribute towards helping endangered species. As the lecturer says, the example given is specific and cannot be applied in general to all other species. As, in zoos interbreeding amongst members of same family occurs and this increases the probability of harmful diseases in the new born members, which is detrimental for the species as whole.
To sum it up, the lecturer wants to convey that the reading passage is not true regarding the zoos as there have been evidence of negligence in the zoos by caretakers, majority of zoos house animals which would attract more public than for the purpose of educating about relevant rare and endangered animals. Additionally, the lecturer also points at the potential problem due to interbreeding amongst family members which occur at zoos, which has negative consequences on the species as it promotes diseases.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 100, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Further,
...t about the state of treatment in zoos. Further adding that zookeepers can be negligent...
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Line 2, column 359, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...nt at the site of accident. Hence, zoos cant be guaranteed as places were animals ar...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, hence, if, lastly, regarding, so, still, in general
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 30.3222958057 162% => 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: 1962.0 1373.03311258 143% => OK
No of words: 368.0 270.72406181 136% => OK
Chars per words: 5.33152173913 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37987740619 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80657457095 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 145.348785872 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.513586956522 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 613.8 419.366225166 146% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => 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: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.4678667396 49.2860985944 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.625 110.228320801 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.6875 7.06452816374 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.153879106533 0.272083759551 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0583631501793 0.0996497079465 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0414395527178 0.0662205650399 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0959472739997 0.162205337803 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0243059364745 0.0443174109184 55% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.3589403974 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 53.8541721854 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.93 12.2367328918 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.81 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 63.6247240618 148% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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