TPO 30 - Question 3Campus Construction Should Happen During the SummerI've noticed that small construction projects on campus'like fixing sidewalks and parking lots'often take place during the regular school year, when classed are in session. I propose th

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TPO 30 - Question 3

Campus Construction Should Happen During the Summer

I've noticed that small construction projects on campus'like fixing sidewalks and parking lots'often take place during the regular school year, when classed are in session. I propose that whenever possible the university should schedule such construction projects to take place during the three-month summer break. One reason is that construction projects can be so disruptive; they create inconveniences and can make it hard to get where you need to go on campus. And, second, construction projects would be more likely to be completed quickly if they were scheduled for the summer when the weather is usually good.

Sincerely,
Eric Hughes

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Average: 9 (1 vote)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 606.0 593.389002037 102% => OK
No of words: 156.0 154.784114053 101% => OK
Chars per words: 3.88461538462 3.82920900774 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.53411884305 3.52088357496 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.11817997123 1.81998168104 116% => OK
Unique words: 109.0 93.7942973523 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.698717948718 0.608046397892 115% => OK
Syllable count: 190.8 185.724439919 103% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0753039589556 0.0833886788687 90% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 7.0 3.90020366599 179% => OK
Average paragraph length: 22.2857142857 71.3690273242 31% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 23.9685167651 24.1299301424 99% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 7.93428571429 26.8388033085 30% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 7.90833892102 8.89323425527 89% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 33.0 40.266802444 82% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.72727272727 4.20756893501 112% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.97166271015 3.23972648638 123% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.55848484848 1.51236819293 103% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.17391373699 1.0352206224 113% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 32.0 37.9022403259 84% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.61 7.22384928717 92% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.2065625 0.193825474362 107% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.16440440564 0.16431695912 100% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 44.28 46.6644602851 95% => OK
Average word duration: 0.283846153846 0.304040633073 93% => OK
STD word duration: 0.1534703744 0.193491353168 79% => 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: 4.12 6.97134419552 59% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.69 3.21433808554 84% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 55.54 59.1375356415 94% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.925666666667 0.985625594026 94% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.576161325171 0.643888735843 89% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.80878646021 2.61565628039 107% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.96254951386 1.58604529434 124% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.46160794941 2.01333574461 122% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.389724057692 0.322651457988 121% => 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.