The reading passage introduces the topic of deforestation and the author’s views on its benefits. He says that new technology has enabled deforestation which caters to the growing demands of food and living space, and also has economic benefits. The speaker in the listening section disagrees. He believes that even though there are short term benefits, consequences on the long term are adverse.
First of all, the author in the reading passage states that deforestation helps in creating more farmland which can be used to grow crops and raise livestock. According to him, this has substantial benefits in terms of feeding more people and also as items which can be exported for economic prospects. The speaker however counters the author’s viewpoint by stating that these are short term benefits. In the long run, however, deforestation leads to clearing of massive rainforests, which house diverse ecosystems. He cites the example of Brazil, where the 60% of the rainforest has been cleared. His suggestion is to use advanced technology in preserving these rainforests, while looking for alternative methods of farming such as hydroponics which does not need soil.
In the reading passage, the author further states that because population is on the rise, the need for residential areas requires land which can be accommodated by deforestation. The speaker however sheds light on how forests are a major source of oxygen and deforestation lead to displacement of a vast number of species. He asserts that cutting down trees to obtain short term benefits are reflective of an irresponsible behaviour.
Finally, the author of the passage concludes by saying the forestry industry in a part of the national economy in many countries such as Brazil, Thailand, and Indonesia and that the need for lumber, furniture and paper creates jobs for many people residing here. The speaker contends this by saying that the countries where forestry thrives are all developing nations, where the workers are paid meagre amounts for dangerous jobs that they undertake.
To sum up, the author and the speaker hold very different and conflicting opinions on deforestation, as is evident from this essay.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, look, so, while, in short, such as, first of all, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1848.0 1373.03311258 135% => OK
No of words: 351.0 270.72406181 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26495726496 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32839392791 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88199698263 2.5805825403 112% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 145.348785872 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.538461538462 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 564.3 419.366225166 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.8853489683 49.2860985944 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.5 110.228320801 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9375 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.875 7.06452816374 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.0839211053695 0.272083759551 31% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0294653961611 0.0996497079465 30% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.037641373803 0.0662205650399 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0442396092377 0.162205337803 27% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0265042836418 0.0443174109184 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.3589403974 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.77 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 63.6247240618 143% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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