The passage and lecture both discuss three suppositions around population declining of a common tree in northwestern North America, which is dubbed yellow cedar. The reading posits three main hypotheses to illustrate this reduction. In contrast, the professor mentions that the arguments of the passage are not adequate and convincing and demonstrates some counterarguments.
Firstly, the text points that perhaps the insect parasites like cedar bark beetle can be a good justification to depict this population decreasing. The lecturer refutes this and says that healthy cedars are very resistance against insects infestation. They produce poisonous chemical material on their barks and leaves that is harmful for beetle larvae. In fact, this insect likely attack cedar trees which already died. Therefore, they cannot be liable for this lessening.
Secondly, the article claims that possibly brown bears which look for cedars bark's sugar can explain this reducing. However, the speaker indicates that although brown bears have some damages, they cannot cause this overall decreasing. The cedars declining happen on the main lands and islands, but there are no bears on the islands. Thus, declination occurs with and without bears and so they cannot be responsible.
Thirdly, the passage puts out that the climate changing and as a consequence freezing the cedars’ root can be the culprit of this event. The professor denies this and suggests that the passage forget more trees are dying in lower elevations where the weather is warm. If climate drives this decline, there must be more declines in cold weather of the high lands. Even though the climate has some impact on trees' root, it cannot kill them.
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Essay evaluation report
are very resistance against insects infestation
are very resistant against insects' infestation
this insect likely attack cedar trees
this insect likely attacks cedar trees
The cedars declining happen on the main lands
The cedars declining happens on the main lands
the passage forget more trees are dying in lower elevations
the passage forgets to tell that more trees are dying in lower elevations //and 'forget' is used wrongly. it should be 'forget something'
flaws:
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 24 in 30
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 12
No. of Words: 270 250
No. of Characters: 1405 1200
No. of Different Words: 161 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.054 4.2
Average Word Length: 5.204 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.508 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 110 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 77 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 43 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 29 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.875 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 4.781 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.625 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.293 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.524 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.045 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, thus, in contrast, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 21.0 30.3222958057 69% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1453.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 270.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38148148148 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05360046442 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64271392698 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.6 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 429.3 419.366225166 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.1893787009 49.2860985944 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.8125 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.875 21.698381199 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.1875 7.06452816374 102% => 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 : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.395742312034 0.272083759551 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.123121568824 0.0996497079465 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0616811720422 0.0662205650399 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.221344633354 0.162205337803 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0439822612188 0.0443174109184 99% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.3589403974 92% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.63 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.87 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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