Question : Summarise the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they case doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.
Recently, there has been a ton of debate about whether the wood companies in the United States would adopt the ecologically friendly practices for their business or not. More specifically, in regards to the reading passage, the author puts fort his idea that even if an international organization started issuing eco-certifications to wood companies that meet high eco-logical standards, it is unlikely that wood companies in the United state would do the same. In the listening, the lecturer is quick to point out there are some significant flaws with the writer's claim. In fact, he believes that companies in the United state would follow to ecologically friendly practices in order to receive eco-certification, and addresses, in detail, the trouble with each point made in the reading text.
First and foremost, the author of the reading claims that American consumers are exposed to many advertising that they won't pay attention to the eco-certification label. In the listening the lecturer stand in firm opposition to this claim. He challenges this argument by saying that companies don't trust all the advertises the same, in fact they value the independent eco-certification agencies. He further elaborates on this by mentioning that ecologically minded people would respect the famous wood product certified by the certificate agencies with international recognition as they are trust worthy.
Secondly, the writer posits that as the eco-certified wood will be more expensive due the cost involved with the eco-certification, American consumers would choose cheaper uncertified wood as they are strongly motivated by price. The lecturer rebuts this by asserting that price is not the only factor, the American people pay attention to while choosing any product. Furthermore, he states that if the price difference is small between two products, other factors play an important role. They give importance to protect environment and hence they would buy the eco-friendly wood.
Finally, the author states that pursuing certification would make sense for the companies in America only if they sell most of their product abroad. Not surprisingly, the lecturer takes issue with this claim, whether American companies would value the certification doesn't depend on the foreign consumers, in fact on the number of foreign competitors in USA. He further argues that if the domestic companies don't follow the eco-friendly standards, the foreign competitors would capture the market by their eco-certified wood product.
Just to wrap things up, both the author and the lecturer hold conflicting views on this.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 81, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... about whether the wood companies in the United States would adopt the ecological...
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Line 1, column 191, Rule ID: IN_REGARD_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'regarding' or 'with regard to'.
Suggestion: regarding; with regard to
...eir business or not. More specifically, in regards to the reading passage, the author puts fo...
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Line 1, column 389, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...es that meet high eco-logical standards, it is unlikely that wood companies in th...
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Line 4, column 294, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... this argument by saying that companies dont trust all the advertises the same, in f...
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Line 6, column 451, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ifference is small between two products, other factors play an important role. Th...
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Line 9, column 267, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...companies would value the certification doesnt depend on the foreign consumers, in fac...
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Line 9, column 409, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...r argues that if the domestic companies dont follow the eco-friendly standards, the ...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ecturer hold conflicting views on this.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, hence, if, second, secondly, so, while, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 30.3222958057 162% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 5.01324503311 299% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2225.0 1373.03311258 162% => OK
No of words: 405.0 270.72406181 150% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.49382716049 5.08290768461 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48604634366 4.04702891845 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.12980275655 2.5805825403 121% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 145.348785872 142% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.511111111111 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 682.2 419.366225166 163% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.1468708853 49.2860985944 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.0625 110.228320801 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.3125 21.698381199 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0625 7.06452816374 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0975288013394 0.272083759551 36% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0394516782484 0.0996497079465 40% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0358937986023 0.0662205650399 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0551587940916 0.162205337803 34% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0253788859761 0.0443174109184 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.1 13.3589403974 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 53.8541721854 70% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.0289183223 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.86 12.2367328918 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 63.6247240618 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => 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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