The article discusses the decline of the yellow cedar populations and provides three reasons of support. However, the professor states that scientists still do not know the real reason of declining in the yellow cedar populations and he refutes each of the author's reasons.
First, the reading claims that insect parasites, specifically the cedar bark bettle may be the real cause of damaging the trees populations. The profesor refutes this point by explaining that the healthy yellow cedar trees are highly resistant to insect infestation. These trees posses a chemical substances that are poisonous to insect. Therefore, these trees had already been damaged before the insect invasion. So, the cedar bark bettle is not the primary cause of killing yellow cedar trees.
Second, the article avers that the brown bears could destroy the yellow cedar tress because these bears may clw at the cedar in order to eat the tress bark. The professor, on the other hand, states that though brown bears caused some damage, they did not cause decline in the popluation. Because the bears are only live in the island, however, the decline of the trees popluations have happened along the coast and island areas. So, With or without the bears, yellow cedar tress have been destroyed.
Third, the reading posits that the gradual change of climate may be the cause of destruction because the cedar roots system are sensitive to cold climate. The professor opposes this point by saying that the author fails to mention that lower trees elevations are suffered much more than higher trees elevations. The professor emphaisez that if this idea is true, we should expect that higher tress elevations should suffer from frozen and not in the opposite way. So, he concludes that climate changes do not kill the yellow cedar trees.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 298, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'substance'?
Suggestion: substance
...estation. These trees posses a chemical substances that are poisonous to insect. Therefore...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 112, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'roots'' or 'root's'?
Suggestion: roots'; root's
... cause of destruction because the cedar roots system are sensitive to cold climate. T...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, second, so, still, therefore, third, 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: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1523.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 299.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09364548495 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.34723524948 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.511705685619 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 452.7 419.366225166 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.539399107 49.2860985944 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.533333333 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9333333333 21.698381199 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.26666666667 7.06452816374 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.459291898964 0.272083759551 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.157455348597 0.0996497079465 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0692096468874 0.0662205650399 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.262336573717 0.162205337803 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0715715039821 0.0443174109184 161% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.