TOEFL TPO 21 - Integrated Writing Task

The reading and the lecturer both discuss the use of plants that are genetically modified. The author of the reading states that they bring a number of benefits and gives three reasons of support. The lecturer, on the other hand, rejects each claim made in the article and states that these plants have serious problems for natural trees.

First off, the reading says that since these genetically modified trees are developed for harsh conditions, they are able to survive better than natural trees. The speaker, however, claims that they are designed for one specific condition whereas there are plenty of climate conditions in nature. In case of facing a new condition or experiencing climate change, they will be wiped out.

Secondly, the article points out that these trees provide farmers with economic benefits. Since they grow faster, yield more products and can survive better; farmers can get faster and better returns. The professor, on the contrary, points out that they cost more to farmers. Their seeds are expensive and, according to the law, you have to pay to the companies for harvesting them.

Lastly, according to the passage, they help wild trees to survive since these trees grow faster so; they would gratify the need of wood. The lecturer refutes this by saying that these trees grow more aggressively and compete with wild trees for natural sources such as water or soil nutrients. As a result, they cause more damages to wild trees.

Votes
Average: 8 (1 vote)
Essay Categories

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 198, 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.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, whereas, such as, as a result, 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: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1224.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 243.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03703703704 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94822203886 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.30847692022 2.5805825403 89% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 145.348785872 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.555555555556 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 366.3 419.366225166 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.5240116992 49.2860985944 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.1538461538 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6923076923 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.84615384615 7.06452816374 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.365936762026 0.272083759551 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.117723631866 0.0996497079465 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0767233930239 0.0662205650399 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.204662722137 0.162205337803 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0462405679695 0.0443174109184 104% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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