Eco-certification in the US
The reading passage explores why some American wood companies are unwilling to pursue ecocertifications to benefit their products and attract more consumers, and several reasons are given in support of this argument. Although these points seem reasonable, the lecturer casts doubt on them for the following reasons.
To begin with, even though the reading passage suggests that American consumers pay less attention to ecocertification labels since there have been many advertisements, the lecturer argues that it is a misconception. This is because some consumers can distinguish between the advertising claims of the companies and independent agencies, which means that those consumers are fond of the certification given by trustworthy organizations.
Second, the author suggests that the price of certified products will be higher than uncertified products since companies need to pay for the examinations. In addition, American consumers are more concerned regarding price and, thus, aren’t likely to choose certified products. Conversely, the lecturer indicates that, in fact, if the price difference between two products is less than five percent, the consumers probably won’t make their decision only based on price. Furthermore, some consumers gradually value the importance of preserving the environment. As a result, the lecturer alleges that consumers will probably be willing to pay for the certified products.
Last but not least, the lecturer acutely identifies the weakness in the passage that American companies often ignore this certification because they only attend to the domestic market. The lecturer points out that some foreign companies might soon flock to American markets, causing competition. In addition, as above mentioned, more American consumers start seeking ecocertified products. Accordingly, some local companies in the United States might lose their consumers who are aware of eco-friendly products.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, conversely, furthermore, if, regarding, second, so, thus, in addition, in fact, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1662.0 1373.03311258 121% => OK
No of words: 284.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.85211267606 5.08290768461 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10515524023 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06915434464 2.5805825403 119% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.566901408451 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 517.5 419.366225166 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.55342163355 116% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 1.25165562914 399% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.882058276 49.2860985944 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.846153846 110.228320801 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8461538462 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.53846153846 7.06452816374 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0476146377009 0.272083759551 17% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0173615107178 0.0996497079465 17% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0318649207533 0.0662205650399 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0316799976786 0.162205337803 20% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0339969971366 0.0443174109184 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.0 13.3589403974 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 53.8541721854 62% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.0289183223 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.65 12.2367328918 136% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 10.7273730684 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 11.2008830022 152% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, conversely, furthermore, if, regarding, second, so, thus, in addition, in fact, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1662.0 1373.03311258 121% => OK
No of words: 284.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.85211267606 5.08290768461 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10515524023 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06915434464 2.5805825403 119% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.566901408451 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 517.5 419.366225166 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.55342163355 116% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 1.25165562914 399% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.882058276 49.2860985944 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.846153846 110.228320801 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8461538462 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.53846153846 7.06452816374 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0476146377009 0.272083759551 17% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0173615107178 0.0996497079465 17% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0318649207533 0.0662205650399 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0316799976786 0.162205337803 20% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0339969971366 0.0443174109184 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.0 13.3589403974 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 53.8541721854 62% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.0289183223 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.65 12.2367328918 136% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 10.7273730684 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 11.2008830022 152% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.