The main topic of both the reading and the lecture is about dying of an evergreen tree called Torreya taxifoha. The reading passage claims that there are three ways to explain the decrease of Torreya. The lecturer, on the other hand, not only categorically casts doubt on every single point raised by the author by citing three different counter-arguments but also believes that not of them are actually practical.
To begin with, the author establishes that one procedure is to reproduce Torreya in the same place in which that tree was able to flourish for many years. Conversely, the lecturer rebuts this idea, stating that this option cannot become successful and it does not have any huge impact on protecting it from declining in population. The professor mentions that the mentioned areas in the passage are really dependent on the climate variations and almost everywhere is becoming dryer.
Furthermore, the author brings up this notion that moving that kind of tree to a completely different place far from its Florida microclimate is an option. In contrast, the lecturer supports a mutually exclusive view compared to that of the passage and specifies that this option has been done for another tree in a new location. The results showed that this tree grew up rapidly in the new habitat; however, it killed off many endangered plant as well. Thus, predicting the result of the mentioned suggestion is not possible.
Eventually, the reading passage goes on to mention that the last way is to keep them into research centers. In the centers, the scientists are able to do some research on that kind of tree and also protect it. Notwithstanding, the lecturer explains that the research center is not a good environment at all and cites that since the population of Torreya trees that are kept in these centers cannot be resistant to disease. If a population of a tress wants to be disease-resistant, it should be large in population and be genetically diverse. As long as the population of trees in the artificial environment cannot be large, they will not also be resistant to disease and virus.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 202, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ays to explain the decrease of Torreya. The lecturer, on the other hand, not only c...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, conversely, furthermore, however, if, really, so, thus, well, in contrast, kind of, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.4613686534 191% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 52.0 30.3222958057 171% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1762.0 1373.03311258 128% => OK
No of words: 355.0 270.72406181 131% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96338028169 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34067318298 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85467073599 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 145.348785872 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.535211267606 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 549.9 419.366225166 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.8137231823 49.2860985944 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.466666667 110.228320801 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6666666667 21.698381199 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.13333333333 7.06452816374 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.0 0.272083759551 0% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0 0.0996497079465 0% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0662205650399 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0 0.162205337803 0% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0443174109184 0% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 63.6247240618 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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