The article states three disadvantages of let it burn policy which deal with wildfire, after Yellowstone wildfire. However, the professor refutes all claims made by the author. She says that this fire had a creative role on ecological system not only destructive.
First of all, the author of the reading claims that Yellowstone fire caused tremendous damage to most of park's tree and vegetation, as the tree were blackened from the flames, and smaller plants were all incinerated. Conversely, the lecturer states that the fire has created new opportunity for colonization of new plant which led to diversity in park's plant. For instance, certain plant could not germinate unless they exposed to high heat level.
The second disadvantage is that the fire affected animals because it caused destruction of the habitat and disruption of food. On contrary, the professor challenges by saying that the fire create new opportunity. For example, the new smaller plants that replaced burned tree, had created new habitat to small animals like rabbits and hares. These animals attracted predators looking for food, which positively affected the food cycle.
Finally, last disadvantage the author of the reading states is this fire negatively affected local economy because the tourist season cut short, and most businesses that depended on tourists suffered. The lecturer, on the other hand, points out that the fire could affect local economy if it happened every year. She says that there was many reasons that made the fire so massive like, low rainfall season and strong wind, which did not happen again. Visitors came back to the park next year and each year
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
conversely, finally, first, however, if, look, second, so, for example, for instance, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1399.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 268.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22014925373 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04607285448 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56078639817 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59328358209 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 431.1 419.366225166 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.124374607 49.2860985944 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.9285714286 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1428571429 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.35714285714 7.06452816374 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => 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: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.375138047147 0.272083759551 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.115532881035 0.0996497079465 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0657089356123 0.0662205650399 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.208930287959 0.162205337803 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0421543871799 0.0443174109184 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.64 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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