The article and the lecture are both about yellow cedar, which is an endangered species of tree. The writer talks about possible reasons that cause its decline. On the other hand, the speaker casts doubts on the claims made by the author, stating that his arguments are somewhat irrelevant when compared with reality.
First, insect parasites can not be the reason why healthy trees are dying. The writer specifies that there have been reported some case when beetle attacks lead to killing trees. However, the speaker refutes this idea by saying that those trees must have been already affected by other diseases, and therefore they did not resist to the attack of the beetles. Moreover, healthy trees have chemical substances that keep predators away. This is a strong counter-point to against the passage.
Second, bears can not be held responsible for the overall decline of yellow cedar, as the passage sustains. It is true that their aggressive way of feeding can create damages for the tree, but this is not enough to kill a tree. Not to mention that cedars' decline was recorded also in areas where there are not bears at all. Thus, this argument is not viable.
Third, climate change can not be blame for the rapid decrease of cedars. The writer says that the new meteorological conditions have caused a change in the trees' roots, making them grow during winter, and consequently suffering from freezing. Anyway, the lecturer refutes this idea because the reduction of trees takes place both in warm and old areas. Moreover, the first area has recorded a higher rate of declining. As a result, this last argument is not plausible. In conclusion, the author and the lecturer seem to be in disagreement regarding this topic.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, anyway, but, consequently, first, however, if, moreover, regarding, second, so, therefore, third, thus, in conclusion, as a result, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1448.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 292.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95890410959 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43126566429 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.599315068493 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 438.3 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.6316371939 49.2860985944 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.4444444444 110.228320801 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2222222222 21.698381199 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.27777777778 7.06452816374 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.382303238324 0.272083759551 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104765663827 0.0996497079465 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.063543236252 0.0662205650399 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.217194920786 0.162205337803 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0686731988932 0.0443174109184 155% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.0 13.3589403974 75% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.19 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 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.