desertification
The reading passage presents three reasons why the box-shaped device that could be used to allow trees to grow under harsh conditions will not be successful. However, the speaker in the lecture refutes all the claims made in the article. She mentions that all those reasons are not convincing.
First of all, the author in the article claims that one device is needed for each tree. Since countries may have to plant millions of trees, the cost for millions of the devices would be too costly for countries to afford. On the other hand, the lecturer indicates that a single device could be reused up to 20 times, which would save a huge amount of money and would end up less costly than it seems to be.
Second, the article holds that most people living in the areas affected by desertification barely manage to take care of their families and will not be willing to look after trees which does not even provide food for them. In contrast, the lecturer posits that the device not only could be used for trees, but also could be harnessed for growing more plants that people feed on. Consequently, farmers would be able to grow more useful plants besides the trees using the device. In addition, the speaker postulates that branches from the trees would be beneficial for the population as they could be used as firewood.
Lastly, the excerpt argues that the capabilities of the device are limited and once trees outgrow the device, they will not be able to survive the extreme environment of long periods of dry climate without rain. Nevertheless, the lecturer casts doubt on this idea. she assumes that long roots of the mature trees can reach underground for water beneath the dry surface. Also, she states that 90% of trees in Africa are still thriving two years after the devices were removed.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 266, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: She
... the lecturer casts doubt on this idea. she assumes that long roots of the mature t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, consequently, first, however, if, lastly, look, may, nevertheless, second, so, still, in addition, in contrast, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 5.04856512141 297% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1496.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 314.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.76433121019 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20951839842 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.33484671638 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557324840764 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 451.8 419.366225166 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.9273924016 49.2860985944 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.857142857 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4285714286 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.6428571429 7.06452816374 165% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.092062547655 0.272083759551 34% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.036587420997 0.0996497079465 37% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0365938003025 0.0662205650399 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0542336570276 0.162205337803 33% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0395950728823 0.0443174109184 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.07 53.8541721854 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.2367328918 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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