Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they respond to the specific points made in the reading passage.
The reading and the audio mainly discussed the reasons causing the decline in the population of sea otters along the western coast of America. According to the reading, the most important factor is water contamination, however, the lecturer disputes this theory, having said that, this is predation which is the most likely reason for this ongoing extinction.
First, based on the reading, pollution is the more likely cause due to the known sources of oil rigs and industrial chemical pollution along the coast, yet the lecturer disagreed, she explained that this theory cannot be true given the fact that there is no evidence of killed sea otter near the area, which confirms the fact that they were eaten by orcas whale predators.
Second, the passage introduced another reason, suggesting that other mammals such as seals and sea lions were also declining, since the environmental pollution does affect the entire ecosystem rather than being selective to a single species. On the other hand, the woman on the audio argued this hypothesis, she purports that this pattern of declining in other sea mammals has proven the predatory theory more strongly. The investigation on this area reveals that haunting whales by humans which were food for orcas whales had forced them to change their pray to smaller mammals like seals, sea lions, and sea otters.
Third, the reading assets that uneven pattern of the declining sea otter was aligned with water pollution, albeit the lecturer argued this reason, saying that uneven pattern is related to the fact that the more the population of orcas whale is available, the more we are facing the decrease in small sea mammals. She describes that there is a direct link between shallow and rocky coast in which the environment is not appropriate, the rate of declining is smaller, in comparison of deep-marine environment where the incline in the population of the sea otter is more drastic.
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- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement The opinions of celebrities such as famous entertainers and athletes are more important to younger people than they are to older people Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 73
- Some parents offer their school age children money for each high grade mark they get in school Do you think this is a good idea Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 76
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement For the successful development of a country it is more important for a government to spend money on the education of very young children five to ten years old than to spend money on universities Use sp 76
- Carved stone balls are a curious type of artifact found at a number of locations in Scotland They date from the late Neolithic period around 4 000 years ago They are round in shape they were carved from several types of stone most are about 70 mm in diame 85
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement For the successful development of country it is more important for a government to spend money on the education of very young children five to ten years old than to spend money on universities 73
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, second, so, third, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 9.8082437276 10% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 13.8261648746 43% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 43.0788530466 60% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 52.1666666667 67% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.0752688172 173% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1625.0 1977.66487455 82% => OK
No of words: 319.0 407.700716846 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09404388715 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22617688928 4.48103885553 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52472760251 2.67179642975 94% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 212.727598566 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.53605015674 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 495.0 618.680645161 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.59856630824 42% => OK
Article: 9.0 3.08781362007 291% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 20.6003584229 39% => 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: 39.0 20.1344086022 194% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 69.9428338002 48.9658058833 143% => OK
Chars per sentence: 203.125 100.406767564 202% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 39.875 20.6045352989 194% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.375 5.45110844103 154% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 11.8709677419 8% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0554825095892 0.236089414692 24% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0258668265966 0.076458572812 34% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0241918982404 0.0737576698707 33% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0387835391257 0.150856017488 26% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0193844519777 0.0645574589148 30% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 22.5 11.7677419355 191% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 31.89 58.1214874552 55% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 18.5 10.1575268817 182% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.83 10.9000537634 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.63 8.01818996416 120% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 86.8835125448 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 10.002688172 180% => OK
gunning_fog: 17.6 10.0537634409 175% => OK
text_standard: 18.0 10.247311828 176% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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