The reading talks about salvage logging, which is a way of dealing with the aftermaths of forest disasters caused by either forest fires or storms. The professor, however, believes that it is disadvantageous.
In the text, the author states that the decomposition process will take many years unless dead trees are removed and this prevent forests to recover themselves. According to the professor, on the other hand, decomposition enriches the soil and provides next-generation trees with a more suitable place. So, since salvage logging prevents soil to get nutrients from dead trees, it is unnecessary interference to a forest.
The passage also claims that decaying wood is a wonderful place as a habitat for some insect species, which are harmful to the forest. So, salvage logging minimizes this damage and contribute to the health of the forest. The lecturer, however, points out that there are also many useful insect species living in those trees that are really beneficial for a forest in a long run. So, salvage logging may be more harmful than harmful insects.
Lastly, the article claims that salvage logging has economic benefits because the dead trees can provide industries depending upon the forests with much wood and, since removing those trees requires many people; it creates additional job opportunities for locals. The speaker opposes this by explaining that removing woods, especially from a heavily damaged forest, are usually carried by helicopters, which are expensive to operate. Moreover, job opportunities are temporary and filled by outsiders rather than local residents.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, lastly, may, moreover, really, so, 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: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1362.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 252.0 270.72406181 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.40476190476 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98428260373 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7982915999 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 145.348785872 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583333333333 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 423.0 419.366225166 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.5028555832 49.2860985944 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.5 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06452816374 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.568765665157 0.272083759551 209% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.188265236274 0.0996497079465 189% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103364569064 0.0662205650399 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.32306019854 0.162205337803 199% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0656719283647 0.0443174109184 148% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 53.8541721854 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.04 12.2367328918 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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