salvage logging
The reading passage indicates that salvage logging has advantages to the damaged forest and to the economy. However, based on the listening, such a thing is certainly not as wonderful as the passage described, and might result in more damage in the long run.
First of all, the reading claims that clean up dead trees to make room for fresh new trees to grow after a terrible fire is helpful for the forest to recover from the disaster. However, the professor contradicts what the reading states. She argues that dead trees will convert to nutrition and enrich the soil for new trees. Salvage logging removes natural nutrition resources from the forest and might cause the forest more damage.
Second, the author of the reading holds the opinion that salvage logging will also contribute to the overall health of the forest by reducing the dangers of infestation. But the professor in the lecture refutes this point by questioning that insects are bad or not for the forest. She points out that, in fact, insects have been living there for a hundred years while the forest is in good condition. Besides, insects are the food source for birds, from which the forest will benefit for the long term.
Finally, according to the reading part, we learn that there is still a large amount of wood after a natural disaster are usable to the industries whose production is from the forest, and it will request more workers for salvage logging. In contrast, the listening disagrees with that. It contends that the economic benefits brought by disasters are tiny and not continuous. Besides, transporting those wood by helicopter is very expensive. It's worth note that additional jobs created by salvage logging require trained workers which locals are not having that experience.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, finally, first, however, second, so, still, while, in contrast, in fact, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1476.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 297.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9696969697 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15134772569 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44001602374 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545454545455 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 447.3 419.366225166 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.1998616872 49.2860985944 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.4 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06452816374 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 4.45695364238 247% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.216170241452 0.272083759551 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0822973124036 0.0996497079465 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.127383175908 0.0662205650399 192% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149453919159 0.162205337803 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0406819325896 0.0443174109184 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.3589403974 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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