The reading passage and the lecture are discussing an interesting topic about the salvage logging done after a forest fire. The reading passage states a positive point of view about this practice and provides intensive information and reason for support. However, the lecture opposes the claim of the reading passage and refutes every argument of the reading passage as follow.
First of all, the reading passage sustains the benefit of salvage logging by remarking that this practice allows a faster and better regrow of the new trees and plants. On the contrary, the lecture points out the damage of this practice explaining how the dead plants return necessary nutrients to the soil. In consequence, the lack of nutrients could be a main factor of the soil degradation in the long run.
Secondly, the reading passage argues that rotting wood and dead trees contribute for the increment of the spruce bark beetle that can damage the spruce trees. The lecture, on the other hand, challenges this argument by acknowledge there is no evidence spruce bark beetle could damage the trees. Moreover, dead tress and plants left after a fire are also habitat for many other species other than the beetles, like birds, that are also very important for the good health of the forest's ecosystem.
Finally, the reading passage makes emphasis in the economic benefit of the salvage logging by incrementing job offers and providing wood for many other industries. Once again, the lecture questions the reading passage explaining how expensive equipment, like helicopters, and special trucks, and vehicles, necessary to salvage logging are. Furthermore, the jobs offered for salvage logging usually are temporal, and require specialised workers from other areas.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 368, Rule ID: AS_FOLLOW[1]
Message: Did you mean 'as follows'?
Suggestion: as follows
...s every argument of the reading passage as follow. First of all, the reading passage s...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 478, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'forests'' or 'forest's'?
Suggestion: forests'; forest's
...ry important for the good health of the forests ecosystem. Finally, the reading pass...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, moreover, second, secondly, so, in fact, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 12.0772626932 33% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 22.412803532 36% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1478.0 1373.03311258 108% => OK
No of words: 280.0 270.72406181 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27857142857 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09062348924 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53295624655 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517857142857 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 461.7 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 27.1462090662 49.2860985944 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 123.166666667 110.228320801 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3333333333 21.698381199 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.5 7.06452816374 163% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.313000941187 0.272083759551 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.121497240743 0.0996497079465 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0778964314993 0.0662205650399 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.187695354996 0.162205337803 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0774874091337 0.0443174109184 175% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 13.3589403974 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.64 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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