The reading and the listening passages are both about “let it burn” policy. While the reading passage provides three kinds of damage that this policy did, the professor says it is not.
First of all, the writer mentions that Yellowstone fires in 1988 caused tremendous damage to vegetation. However, the lecturer contends that the fire is a natural fundamental good one because it created diversity. Also, once the bug trees burned, the small plants start to grow. Moreover, the seeds did not burn, so it grew again.
Secondly, the author states that the park wildlife was affected because of the fire. The lecturer rebuts this point by saying there was a new ideal habitat for small animals such as rabbit, which attracted predators to Yellowstone.
Finally, the article says that the fires had negative consequences in the economic sates of the surrounding businesses. The professor refutes this point. She adds that it happened only once in 1988 and it has never happened again. Also, the tourist started to come again in the next year. Thus, as the lecturer says this is not true.
To conclude, the lecturer debunks all the three points on the reading passage.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, while, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 16.0 30.3222958057 53% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 993.0 1373.03311258 72% => OK
No of words: 196.0 270.72406181 72% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06632653061 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.74165738677 4.04702891845 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47937661785 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 124.0 145.348785872 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.632653061224 0.540411800872 117% => OK
syllable_count: 298.8 419.366225166 71% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => 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: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.6072053675 49.2860985944 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 70.9285714286 110.228320801 64% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.0 21.698381199 65% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.57142857143 7.06452816374 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.214479238385 0.272083759551 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0666267866746 0.0996497079465 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0625554062091 0.0662205650399 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.10462409051 0.162205337803 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0668236898367 0.0443174109184 151% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.4 13.3589403974 70% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.73 53.8541721854 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.0289183223 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.53 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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