Because of climate change, more and more land that was once used to grow crops or provide food for animals is turning to dry, unusable desert land. There are many proposals about how to stop this process, known as desertification. A number of proposals involve growing trees, because trees can help protect soil and provide many other benefits to fight against desertification. Some scientists have proposed that the best way to grow trees in dry areas in danger of desertification is by using a box-shaped device surrounding the young tree. The device collects water that condenses from vapor in the atmosphere and helps the tree to grow. However, other scientists believe that this device will not be successful in fighting against desertification for the following reasons.
First, at a cost of 25 U S. dollars each, the device would make growing trees a prohibitively expensive process. Meaningful efforts to fight desertification involve growing millions of trees. Some countries most affected by desertification cannot afford to buy devices for millions of trees
Second, plans for fighting desertification involve asking local people to install and maintain the devices. People living in some of the areas most affected by desertification work long days in harsh conditions: sometimes barely managing to provide food for their families. It would be difficult to motivate these people to look after trees that cannot serve as a source of food for them.
Third, the device's ability to collect and conserve water is limited. Each one provides only enough water to keep a small tree alive. Trees that have outgrown the device have to deal with unforgiving environmental conditions on their own. In some places where the devices are being tried, six months can pass without a drop of rain. Once the trees become too big for the device, they may not be able to survive in such a harsh environment.
The article is mainly discussing different proposals to stop desertification and ways to protect trees from harsh climates and some of oppositions on the possibility of success.but lecturer is not covinced by the claims made by the author
To begin with in the article author mainly discussing the ways against desertification like growing trees and best wats to protect it from harsh climate .He also noted thatsome scientists are not beleiving in the success of box devise around the young trees since it is expensive .The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author by expressing the idea of reusing the box device even about twenty times .
Secondly lecturer rebuts the claim made by author about difficulty of local people to ake care of trees by presenting the point of allowing them to take some advantage of the box device by cultivate vegetables and dry branches of the trees as fire woods along with and with some rewards.
Finally lecturer argues that trees roots are long enough to collect water from long distances whereas author isof the opinion that trees cant withstand the harsh climate once it is outgrown the box like device.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, if, second, secondly, so, whereas, to begin with
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 : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 12.0772626932 17% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 7.0 22.412803532 31% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 966.0 1373.03311258 70% => OK
No of words: 193.0 270.72406181 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00518134715 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.72725689877 4.04702891845 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60518951996 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 105.0 145.348785872 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.544041450777 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 302.4 419.366225166 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.23620309051 24% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 3.0 13.0662251656 23% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 64.0 21.2450331126 301% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 192.493001316 49.2860985944 391% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 322.0 110.228320801 292% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 64.3333333333 21.698381199 296% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 22.6666666667 7.06452816374 321% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 4.19205298013 239% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 4.45695364238 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0702936529148 0.272083759551 26% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0448801173797 0.0996497079465 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0228475203469 0.0662205650399 35% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0496743876222 0.162205337803 31% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0266784020971 0.0443174109184 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 34.3 13.3589403974 257% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: 6.52 53.8541721854 12% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 28.3 11.0289183223 257% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 12.67 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.57 8.42419426049 125% => OK
difficult_words: 46.0 63.6247240618 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 55.0 10.7273730684 513% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 27.6 10.498013245 263% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 28.0 11.2008830022 250% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.5 Out of 30
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