TPO-20 - Integrated Writing Task In the United States, it had been common practice since the late 1960s no to suppress natural forest fires. The “let it burn” policy assumed that forest fire would burn themselves out quickly, without causing much dama

The reading and the lecture are both elaborating on whether we should have or should not have “let it burn” policy and explain it with an example of 1988s Yellowstone fire. The author of the article believes that the policy is not good and gives references on damage it caused in the example. The lecturer casts doubt on claims made in article. He advocates that “let it burn” policy is very much required as forest fires is a natural phenomenon and can be means of new natural creations.

First of all, the author claims that Yellowstone fire has caused large scale damage and affected vegetation. He states that fire eat up almost one third of land destroying large and small trees. The lectured disagrees on this point. He thinks fire has brought up new vegetation in the land. He explains that fire cleared the land which in-turn gave opportunity for new smaller plants to grow. It increased the diversity in area with the new species of plants.

Secondly, the author argues that wildfire destructed the habitat of many animals. He says that many small animals got killed in the fire which disturbed the existing food chain. It makes restoration of animals who survived in fire more difficult. This point is challenged by lecturer. He mentions that after fire there is new population growth in small animals. He adds that these small animals now attract predator or large animals and food chain is already restoring in Yellowstone park region.

Finally, the author has the opinion that fire killed the local business. He thinks that the land is devastated after fire which reduces the number of visitors to park. The lecturer, on the other hand, says that wildfires do not occur every year. He explains that the park is restoring its beauty and visitors started visiting this place again.

In conclusion, both writer and lecturer put up their opinion on policy and both are convincing in their arguments.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 304, 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.
...ces on damage it caused in the example. The lecturer casts doubt on claims made in ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, if, second, secondly, third, as for, in conclusion, first of all, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1615.0 1373.03311258 118% => OK
No of words: 326.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95398773006 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49542658195 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.524539877301 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 499.5 419.366225166 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 3.25607064018 369% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 13.0662251656 161% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.4526288008 49.2860985944 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 76.9047619048 110.228320801 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.5238095238 21.698381199 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.71428571429 7.06452816374 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 4.45695364238 292% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.296508514555 0.272083759551 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0858650038264 0.0996497079465 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0606938342441 0.0662205650399 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150169680979 0.162205337803 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0652549446913 0.0443174109184 147% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.6 13.3589403974 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 53.8541721854 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.0289183223 73% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.13 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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