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The College of Arts and Sciences has announced that it will require students to write a senior thesis to qualify for graduation, beginning with students who enter the university this coming fall. The senior thesis is currently an option in all departments. Specific criteria have not yet been released by the dean, but they are expected to define the thesis as a year-long research project, undertaken with the guidance of a faculty advisor, that results in a paper of at least 50 pages or the equivalent.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-02 | bishoy | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-02 | bishoy | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user bishoy
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- Some people prefer living in a big city Other people prefer living in the countryside away from urban areas Which do you think is better Explain why using specific details in your explanation 43
- When looking for information for a research project, some students prefer to get their information mainly from the Internet. Others prefer to mainly use printed materials such as books and academic journals. Which do you prefer, and why? 66
- The professor discussed the characteristics of two kinds of birds of prey On the basis of these characteristics explain whether either bird would be categorized as raptor 90
- what area do you enjoy visiting most in your hometown? why do you enjoy this location? 78
- Talk about a skill that you are good at, such as painting, playing a sport or studying. Explain why this skill is important to you 76
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 739.0 593.389002037 125% => OK
No of words: 170.0 154.784114053 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.34705882353 3.82920900774 114% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.61087313685 3.52088357496 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.32445253442 1.81998168104 128% => OK
Unique words: 113.0 93.7942973523 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.664705882353 0.608046397892 109% => OK
Syllable count: 228.6 185.724439919 123% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.132387151707 0.0833886788687 159% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 3.90020366599 154% => OK
Average paragraph length: 28.3333333333 71.3690273242 40% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 26.0618921459 24.1299301424 108% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 9.55333333333 26.8388033085 36% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 8.48220424706 8.89323425527 95% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 26.0 40.266802444 65% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.53846153846 4.20756893501 155% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.42224072363 3.23972648638 137% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.09769230769 1.51236819293 139% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.23597456936 1.0352206224 119% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 23.0 37.9022403259 61% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.73 7.22384928717 52% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.162173913043 0.193825474362 84% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.139438517595 0.16431695912 85% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 49.03 46.6644602851 105% => OK
Average word duration: 0.288411764706 0.304040633073 95% => OK
STD word duration: 0.186397285648 0.193491353168 96% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 8.88594704684 79% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.67 6.97134419552 81% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.55 3.21433808554 79% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.32 59.1375356415 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.955333333333 0.985625594026 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.401256106071 0.643888735843 62% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.9658060014 2.61565628039 113% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.97138869505 1.58604529434 124% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.30471140118 2.01333574461 114% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.414956741176 0.322651457988 129% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.