One of the threats to endangered sea turtle species is the use of nets by commercial shrimp-fishing boats. When turtles get accidentally caught in the nets, they cannot rise to the surface of the ocean to breathe, and they die. Some people suggest that this problem can be solved through an invention called a turtle excluder device (TED) that is incorporated into the nets. A TED provides a passage through which the turtles can escape. However, TEDs have been criticized for several reasons.
The reading and the lecture are about the pros and cons of the Turtle Excluder Device (TED). The writer
believes there are many benefits to the use of TED, and that it has decreased the number of sea turtles
caught in trawls by shrimpers. The speaker in the listening passage disagrees. He claims there are still
many issues with TED, and challenges each of the writer’s points.
First, the article posits that the design of TED includes a metal barrier inside the net that prevents larger
animals from getting caught. Additionally, it says, TED also provides a path for the sea turtles to exit.
However, the professor points out that small and mid-sized turtles still get caught deeper in the trawls. He
states this is because the metal barrier only prevents creatures larger than ten centimeters to pass
through it.
Also, the author notes that laws have been passed requiring shrimp boats to have TED and use it properly.
The lecturer rebuts this argument. He says that it is impossible for organizations to regulate the fishermen
while they are fishing for shrimp, and that they can just remove the TED right before putting the nets into
the ocean. Furthermore, he argues that they are inclined to do this because sometimes TED can also
prevent shrimp from passing into the depths of the trawls, which decreases their profits.
Another reason the writer feels that TED is beneficial is that under import regulations, the shrimp sold in
the US can only come from suppliers who are certified TED users. Again, the speaker holds there are flaws
in this argument. He suggests that there are many boat owners who claim to be TED-certified, but, in
reality, have fake documentation. The lack of consistency in TED certification from country to country
allows many to deceive ports and sell their shrimp anyways.
To sum up, both the author and the lecturer hold conflicting views about TED.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, moreover, second, so, third, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 30.3222958057 148% => 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: 1527.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 283.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.39575971731 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10153676581 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58830967554 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.593639575972 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 443.7 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 91.053885145 49.2860985944 185% => OK
Chars per sentence: 152.7 110.228320801 139% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.3 21.698381199 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 7.06452816374 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 20.0 4.09492273731 488% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 29.0 4.19205298013 692% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.103392565179 0.272083759551 38% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0458569294213 0.0996497079465 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0469840903738 0.0662205650399 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0303801477496 0.162205337803 19% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.041154067892 0.0443174109184 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.2 13.3589403974 136% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 53.8541721854 80% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.0289183223 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.34 12.2367328918 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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