The issue both the reading and the listening focus on is the cause of the decline in the population of the yellow cedar. However, the listening opposes the reading at three main points.
At the first point, the reading states that the insect parasites, in this case they are are beetles, may cause the yellow-cedar decline. According to the listening, almost healthy yellow cedar trees have very powerful substance on their bark which is poisonous to insects. Therefore, beetles only can have an effect on weak trees, thus they are not the fundamental cause of the yellow cedar decline.
At the second point, the reading mentions that the decrease in the yellow cedar population can be attributed to brown bears. On the contrary, the professor points out that although the brown bears actually have a bad effect on yellow cedar trees but it is only on the mainland. In fact, the decline also happens on the islands, where there is no appearance of the brown bear. Consequently, the brown bear cannot be responsible for the decline of the yellow cedar population.
At the third point, the reading show a hypothesis that the decline of yellow cedar can be the result of gradual changes of climate. The listening rebuts this hypothesis. The professor presents a fact that the decline in the cold and high-elevation areas is more than the warm and lower-elevation areas. Therefore, the changes of climates do not play a role in the decline of yellow cedar.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 85, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: are
...the insect parasites, in this case they are are beetles, may cause the yellow-cedar dec...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, consequently, first, however, may, second, so, therefore, third, thus, in fact, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1216.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 248.0 270.72406181 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.90322580645 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96837696647 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65349542703 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 120.0 145.348785872 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.483870967742 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 372.6 419.366225166 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
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: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.5268271223 49.2860985944 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.5384615385 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0769230769 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.92307692308 7.06452816374 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.412828930779 0.272083759551 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.153133625294 0.0996497079465 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0756440609142 0.0662205650399 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.242957788287 0.162205337803 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0873882725303 0.0443174109184 197% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 13.3589403974 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.14 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.76 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 50.0 63.6247240618 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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