TPO 23
The reading and lecture are both about decrease of body of yellow cedar. The author of the reading feels that the decline is effect of insects, bears and climate change. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. He is of the opinion that these explanations are not conclusive.
To start with, writer argues that cedar bark beetle attacks and harms the tree. However, this particular argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that yellow cedar is more resistant to small organisms than other trees because the tree is covered with toxic chemical substances which poison the insect. Additionally, he remarks explanation of the evidence can be interpreted by the attack of insects to dead part of the tree.
Secondly, the author suggests brown bears have caused detriment to the tree. In the reading passage, it is said that bears wilt the tree while eating the tree bark so that they feed on its sugar content. On the other hand, the speaker refutes this by mentioning that population of the trees are declining overally. He elaborates on this by bringing up the point that number of the trees diminishing in the area in which there are no bears. To be more specific, even if there are no bears within some area, body of the trees will continue to decrease.
Finally, the author posits that climate change is influencing growth of the tree. Moreover, in the passage, it is stated that part of its roots are frozen because timing of growth has been changed. In contrast, the lecturer's position is that some trees are still dying even though it is in warm ecosystem. He notes that, since trees in warm zone are declining in number, temperature of the environment cannot play significant role in the decrease.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 171, 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.
...t of insects, bears and climate change. The lecturer challenges the claims made by ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, still, while, in contrast, to start with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 10.4613686534 201% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1440.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 297.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84848484848 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15134772569 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51278177727 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 145.348785872 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52861952862 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 441.9 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.7043098011 49.2860985944 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.7058823529 110.228320801 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.4705882353 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.64705882353 7.06452816374 94% => 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 : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.328784121642 0.272083759551 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0995806755808 0.0996497079465 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0567610779355 0.0662205650399 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.18333097293 0.162205337803 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0662942006861 0.0443174109184 150% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.1 13.3589403974 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.55 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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