The woman expresses her opinion about the proposal that her friend Tim made in his letter to the newspaper. State her opinion about his proposal and explain the reasons she gives for her opinion.
History Seminars Should Be Shorter
Currently, all of the seminar classes in the history department are three hours long. I would like to propose that history seminars be shortened to two hours. I make this proposal for two reasons. First, most students just cannot concentrate for three hours straight. I myself have taken these three-hour seminars and found them tiring and sometimes boring. Also, when a seminar lasts that long, people stop concentrating and stop learning, so the third hour of a three-hour seminar is a waste of everyone‘s time. Two-hour seminars would be much more efficient.
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| 2020-01-17 | egyptologist2020 | Check this speaking | |
| 2020-01-28 | maiqiding@gmail.com | 75.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-19 | Seema Modak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-09 | Elena Cristina | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
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- Briefly summarize the woman’s problem, then state which solution you would recommend .Explain the reasons for your recommendation. 68
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- Explain how the example from the professor’s lecture illustrate the choice-supportive bias. 90
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 612.0 593.389002037 103% => OK
No of words: 159.0 154.784114053 103% => OK
Chars per words: 3.84905660377 3.82920900774 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55098862472 3.52088357496 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.91054234865 1.81998168104 105% => OK
Unique words: 100.0 93.7942973523 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.62893081761 0.608046397892 103% => OK
Syllable count: 190.8 185.724439919 103% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.00524043096791 0.0833886788687 6% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.90020366599 26% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 159.0 71.3690273242 223% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 24.1299301424 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 56.89 26.8388033085 212% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 8.89323425527 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 29.0 40.266802444 72% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.48275862069 4.20756893501 130% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.57595431656 3.23972648638 141% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.93827586207 1.51236819293 128% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.37524936664 1.0352206224 133% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 30.0 37.9022403259 79% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.22 7.22384928717 100% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.240666666667 0.193825474362 124% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.170214244083 0.16431695912 104% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.37 46.6644602851 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.297924528302 0.304040633073 98% => OK
STD word duration: 0.174748968098 0.193491353168 90% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 10.0 8.88594704684 113% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.65 6.97134419552 110% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.4 3.21433808554 12% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.89 59.1375356415 96% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.948166666667 0.985625594026 96% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.527333450519 0.643888735843 82% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.79486728775 2.61565628039 107% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.7577781684 1.58604529434 111% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.11104074309 2.01333574461 105% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.339713867925 0.322651457988 105% => OK
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.