The reading and the lecture are both about a technique dubbed salvage logging, which is removing the remains of dead trees in forests after fires or big disasters. The author of the reading mentions three benefits of using this technique, however, the lecturer casts doubt on all of them.
First of all, the article states that salvage logging helps to clean the forest from dead tress which gives the chance for new trees to grow more quickly. The speaker, on the other hand, rebuts this claim by explaining that removing the remains of the trees is not an effective way. She added that actually the dead plants or trees helps to enrich the soil and make it more fertilized which enhances the chances of regrowing of the trees more rapidly.
Second, the author of the reading mentions that removing the remains of the dead trees prevents some harmful insects as the spruce bark beetle from infestation. The professor challenges this claim and she elaborates that these beetles have existed for years and never caused any harm to the forest. Moreover, other beneficial insects and birds flourish on the remains of the remains of the dead trees.
Third, the text is of the opinion that this process provides employment for number of people who will likely to be local people which is economic value for both the residents and the companies. The speaker goes against this claim as well. He points out that these jobs are temporary which will not lead to a real economic benefit on the long run. Furthermore, they company usually hire untrained and unqualified people instead of giving jobs to the local residents.,
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 48, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... the author of the reading mentions that removing the remains of the dead trees p...
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Line 9, column 179, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...conomic value for both the residents and the companies. The speaker goes against ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, furthermore, however, if, moreover, second, so, third, well, first of all, 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: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => 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: 1350.0 1373.03311258 98% => OK
No of words: 276.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89130434783 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07593519647 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.3252967189 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.550724637681 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 396.9 419.366225166 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => 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: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.5906312205 49.2860985944 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.5 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.5 7.06452816374 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.378605158033 0.272083759551 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.124456398052 0.0996497079465 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0910578637629 0.0662205650399 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.212716140728 0.162205337803 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0718768281514 0.0443174109184 162% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 53.8541721854 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 10.7273730684 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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