Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they challenge the specific theories presented in the reading passage. The invasion of the zebra mussel
The reading and listening materials have a conflict of opinions about the invasion of the zebra mussel, which is a freshwater shellfish spreads out from its habitat in Eastern Europe and their populations have a threat of new habitat. The reading explains three reasons that their invasions cannot be stopped. However, in the listening passage, the speaker disagrees with the writer's opinions and he believes that this problem could not solve because of the lack knowledge of human in the past and nowadays we know about solutions.
First of all, the reading passage refers to this point that this animal was transported to the North America by ships. On the other hand, according to the professor, this is true that human had a role to their transportations but they do not survive and they are killed in the ocean so that it is possible to avoid their threats.
Second, in the reading, the writer indicates that their populations increase as soon as possible because they do not have predators in a new place and their rates of reproduction are high. By contrast, the lecturer makes it clear that this fact is true in the beginning of their place entrance. After a while, other animals like birds eat them and can be controlled by these factors.
As a final point, the writer refers to this point that this animal competes with others to eat plankton and it has a negative impact on the new place. In contrast, according to the speaker, the chain food changes this fact and other factors can control the size of the population of zebra mussels.
To sum up, the reading and listening passage do not agree about the invasion of zebra mussels which is considered as a threat.
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- Young people today have no influence on the important decisions that determine the future of society as a whole. 70
- In order to be well-informed, a person must get information from many different news resources. 76
- the mass extinction 66
- At universities and colleges, sports and social activities are just as important as classes and libraries and should receive equal financial support. 73
- Rather than help children with their schoolwork parents should encourage their children do their work independently 83
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, second, so, while, in contrast, first of all, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => 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: 1397.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 292.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.78424657534 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52421886868 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510273972603 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 420.3 419.366225166 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 2.5761589404 349% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 52.5641677908 49.2860985944 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.0 110.228320801 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.5454545455 21.698381199 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.63636363636 7.06452816374 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
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: 0.151742324291 0.272083759551 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0651337669921 0.0996497079465 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0548680981763 0.0662205650399 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0913173163972 0.162205337803 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0456850995491 0.0443174109184 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.3589403974 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 62.01 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.74 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => 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: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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