TPO-14 - Integrated Writing Task Every year, forest fires and severe stormscause a great deal of damage to forests in the northwestern United States. One way of dealing with the aftermath of these disasters is called salvage logging, which is the practice

The reading passage discusses an interesting topic about the benefit of using salvage logging in the aftermath disasters, like fires and storms, by removing dead trees, and provides extensive information with three main reasons for support. However, the lecture casts doubt about this claim. She thinks the salvage logging practice are perjuditial and produces environmental damage in the long term.

First of all, the reading passage sustains that dead trees avoid the proper grow of plants and trees because its slow decompose; thus, the removing of this trees would help forest areas to recover faster. This point is challenged by the lecture, that argues that the natural process of decomposition of the trees and plants would be much better and in consequence more beneficial for the environment. Moreover, removing dead trees would provoke the lack of important nutrients for the soil.

Secondly, the reading passage states that dead trees creates habitats for insects, like spruce bark beetles that damage the spruce trees. On the contrary, the lecture explains that during millions of years bark beetle lives in this environment without causing damage at all. Equally important, she explains that dead trees are also habitats for many birds and other species.

Finally, the lecture contradicts the reading passage challenging the idea that salvage logging has economic benefits. According to her, the needs of vehicles and infraestructure for this practice is expensive. Additionally, the job that this activity can offer are only temporally and many times hire personal from other regions.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 152, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...s slow decompose; thus, the removing of this trees would help forest areas to recove...
^^^^
Line 5, column 276, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Equally,
...ironment without causing damage at all. Equally important, she explains that dead trees...
^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, as to, first of all, on the contrary

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1359.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 249.0 270.72406181 92% => OK
Chars per words: 5.4578313253 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.97237131171 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60229807882 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.582329317269 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 406.8 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.6149535145 49.2860985944 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.25 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.75 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.75 7.06452816374 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.373045951642 0.272083759551 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.122978257316 0.0996497079465 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.060889921458 0.0662205650399 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.203285651039 0.162205337803 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0400480528876 0.0443174109184 90% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.3589403974 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.39 12.2367328918 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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