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Task 3:
Letter in the Centerville College News
The administration has plans to acquire a new sculpture for campus. We should all oppose this plan. The university’s poor financial condition led it to increase the price for campus housing and tuition by 15% this past year. Surely then it is no financial position to purchase such an expensive sculpture. Moreover, just look at the sculpture: several 60-foot ling steel plates, jutting out of the earth at odd angles! It’s so large, it’ll take up all the green space in front of the campus center! This is public space that should be reserved for students to use.
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Speakings by user brk1
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- learning through online courses is more effective than learning in traditional classroom setting. State whether you agree or disagree with the following statement. Then explain your reasons, using specific details in your explanation. 66
- Some people prefer a job which deals with the same tasks everyday. Others prefer a job which deals with many different tasks. Which do you prefer and why? 66
- If you were given the choice of a school or work assignment, would you prefer to write long or give speech in front of a large group of people? 66
- If you could have any job or career you wanted, which would you choose and why? Give specific details to explain your response 83
- Some people do not enjoy shopping and shop only when they have a specific purchase to make. Others like to go shopping for pleasure whether or not they have something to buy. Which do you prefer and why? (0) 90
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 728.0 593.389002037 123% => OK
No of words: 184.0 154.784114053 119% => OK
Chars per words: 3.95652173913 3.82920900774 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.68302321012 3.52088357496 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.67080456718 1.81998168104 92% => OK
Unique words: 116.0 93.7942973523 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.630434782609 0.608046397892 104% => OK
Syllable count: 217.8 185.724439919 117% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0627554900468 0.0833886788687 75% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 7.0 3.90020366599 179% => OK
Average paragraph length: 26.4285714286 71.3690273242 37% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 18.7300914715 24.1299301424 78% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 9.06285714286 26.8388033085 34% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.70765579672 8.89323425527 64% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 41.0 40.266802444 102% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.48780487805 4.20756893501 107% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.66341138644 3.23972648638 113% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.46073170732 1.51236819293 97% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.11122079702 1.0352206224 107% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 39.0 37.9022403259 103% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.56 7.22384928717 91% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.168205128205 0.193825474362 87% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.117208378865 0.16431695912 71% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 51.49 46.6644602851 110% => OK
Average word duration: 0.279836956522 0.304040633073 92% => OK
STD word duration: 0.14624085086 0.193491353168 76% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 8.88594704684 68% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.13 6.97134419552 59% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.07 3.21433808554 96% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 63.44 59.1375356415 107% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.05733333333 0.985625594026 107% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.614754098361 0.643888735843 95% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.90037831021 2.61565628039 111% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.82849936948 1.58604529434 115% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.25286463391 2.01333574461 112% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.404781065217 0.322651457988 125% => OK
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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 60 seconds.
Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.