The reading and the lecture are both about the cedar trees. The article states that cedar trees are declining constantly in northwestern North America and provides three reasons for support. However, the professor says that the data provided in the reading is not adequate and refutes each of the author's points.
First, the article claims that the cedar trees are decreasing because of the beetle insect which usually eats the cedar tree. However, the lecturer refutes this point by saying that cedar trees are the most powerful chemical trees which have more resistance when compared to other trees. Furthermore, he states that these can be affected only if they are sick not by insects like the beetle.
Second, the text posits that another cause for the decline of the cedar trees is because of the brown bears. As the cedar trees have more sugar content, the bears usually want to eat these trees. On the other hand, the lecturer opposes this point by explaining that these trees have existed in the northwestern North America where no bears are present in those islands. So bears are not responsible for the decline of the cedar trees.
Third, the article conveys that changes in the climate may also lead to the reduction of the cedar trees. Nevertheless, the professor says that the reading passage missed one fact that many trees at the lower elevation are warm and at higher elevation are colder. So the trees at the colder weather usually die. These trees die not because of the changes in the root system of the trees.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, so, third, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1277.0 1373.03311258 93% => OK
No of words: 263.0 270.72406181 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85551330798 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02706775958 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.23223386943 2.5805825403 87% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.48288973384 0.540411800872 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 389.7 419.366225166 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.8358430646 49.2860985944 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.2142857143 110.228320801 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7857142857 21.698381199 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.71428571429 7.06452816374 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.429182083545 0.272083759551 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.163810873308 0.0996497079465 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0814280763083 0.0662205650399 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.263017062314 0.162205337803 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0847651622531 0.0443174109184 191% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.53 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 50.0 63.6247240618 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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