The passage states that wood companies in America will not prefer to get their products certified as ecologically sustainable. The author of passage gives three reasons for it. Firstly, he states that Americans nowadays are not persuaded to buy products looking at advertisements, this is because many low standard products are also branded as new or improved. According to him, Americans will not even notice or give weightage to eco-certification label because Americans don't trust advertisements nowadays. The lecturer states that Americans don't treat all advertisements as one and same. They do believe and have confidence in claims made by independent agencies. So, lecturer says many ecologically minded Americans will purchase sustainable products.
Secondly, author of passage claims that price of such sustainable wood will be more than uncertified wood as company will pass on the cost incurred for business examination conducted by certification agency to consumers. American consumers are strongly motivated by good price. Author states that consequently wood companies will prefer to keep their product cost lower rather than to obtain certification. Lecturer has contrasting opinion; he states that although American's are money minded but this happens only when price difference between alternatives are very large. In case of certified wood and regular wood products, cost difference is less than 5 percent. In such scenarios consumers will consider other factors in addition to product cost to make decision. American consumers nowadays are giving importance to protecting nature and many consumers will buy ecologically sustainable wood products.
Thirdly, author claims that American wood companies need not keep up with other international companies as they do not sell their products abroad. He further asserts that American consumers are satisfied with the existing wood products available in market and companies need not pursue certification. Lecturer has contrasting view on third he suggests that domestic wood companies should keep up with international developments. He says so because domestic companies might lose out on customers who may prefer buying certified wood. Eventually foreign company may capture good amount of market share and this would harm domestic companies in long run.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, firstly, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 5.04856512141 297% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1976.0 1373.03311258 144% => OK
No of words: 347.0 270.72406181 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.69452449568 5.08290768461 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31600926901 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02084379992 2.5805825403 117% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 145.348785872 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.521613832853 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 621.9 419.366225166 148% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.55342163355 116% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.23620309051 36% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.3596918108 49.2860985944 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.0 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2631578947 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.52631578947 7.06452816374 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.27373068433 211% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.163939869331 0.272083759551 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0575238792111 0.0996497079465 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0492579452518 0.0662205650399 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119795406087 0.162205337803 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0325666901082 0.0443174109184 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.28 53.8541721854 67% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.72 12.2367328918 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 63.6247240618 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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