Summarise the points made in the lecture. Be sure to explain how they cast doubt on the specific points made in the reading passage - Turtle Excluder Device (TED)
The reading and lecture both are about the use of turtle Excluder device(ted) to reduce accidental deaths of sea turtles every year. The author of the reading thinks that using ted is a great option to reduce deaths of sea turtles. The lecturer challenges three specific claims made by the author and is of the opinion that ted is a good idea but is far from perfect and needs improvement to a great extent.
To begin with, the author argues that ted consists of a mechanical barrier which doesn’t allow any animal larger than ten centimetres to be caught in the trawl, thus reducing deaths of sea turtles by trawls. At the same time, he says that the shrimp yield is not affected; the shrimps can pass through and are caught. this specific claim is challenged by the lecturer; he asserts that small and midsized turtles like loggerhead are still caught in the shrimp trawls because of their smaller size. Apart from this, he adds that shrimp yield is reduced due to accidental bumping of shrimps with the metal barriers of ted.
Secondly, the article mentions that the shrimp turtle law states that all boats must have ted installed on their boats and certain organisations monitor shrimping vessels to ensure installation of ted. The lecturer is of the opinion that these shrimping vehicles, when far away in the sea, remove the installed ted to increase shrimp yield and their profits. Furthermore, he states that monitoring the shrimping vessel while it’s actually trying to catch shrimps is impossible.
Finally, the author posits that America is in charge of all the import and hence, only certified shrimping vessels(with ted installed) would be allowed to sell their shrimps. In contrast to this, the lecturer says that shrimp industry is international and fake documentation can be arranged easily as different countries have different documentation formats.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 231, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...option to reduce deaths of sea turtles. The lecturer challenges three specific clai...
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Line 3, column 324, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: This
...hrimps can pass through and are caught. this specific claim is challenged by the lec...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, finally, furthermore, hence, if, second, secondly, still, thus, while, apart from, in contrast, in contrast to, to begin with, to a great extent
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1572.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 311.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05466237942 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19942759058 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62863260465 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 145.348785872 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536977491961 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 461.7 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.9060309079 49.2860985944 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.0 110.228320801 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.9166666667 21.698381199 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.25 7.06452816374 188% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.113234669491 0.272083759551 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0483246305392 0.0996497079465 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0354809830029 0.0662205650399 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0752820852642 0.162205337803 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0448232152141 0.0443174109184 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 13.3589403974 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.