TPO-23 - Integrated Writing Task Populations of the yellow cedar, a species of tree that is common in northwestern North America, have been steadily declining for more than a century now, since about 1880. Scientists have advanced several hypotheses expla
The lecturer says that the causes of the declination of yellow cedar remain unclear. He provides explanations that doubt points made in the reading. First, although the cedar bark beetles attack the yellow cedar, the insect parasites are not the main reason. Since healthy cedar trees have chemicals that poisonous to insects saturated in their leaves, healthy cedar trees are resistant to the beetles. The lecturer explains that the trees that are eaten by insects are damaged or even dead before that insects' attack, so the cedar bark beetle attacks are not the main cause. Second, the declination of cedar tree population may not be relevant to bears' attacks. Despite that bears do destroy some trees, there is no strong connection between shrinking population of cedar trees and bears' attacks. In both mainland and off-coast islands cedar trees decline, but in off-coast islands there are no bears.
Third, the reading says that the population of cedar trees is negatively influenced by frost damage. However, the lecturer says that frost damage could not explain the declination. He provides a counterexample to the point. If the claims made in the passage is correct, the trees that grows in higher elevations, where frost happens more frequently, should have more apparent declination than those grows in lower elevations. But this is not the fact.
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- In today’s world, it is more important to work quickly and risk making mistakes than to work slowly and make sure that everything is correct. 60
- TPO-23 - Integrated Writing Task Populations of the yellow cedar, a species of tree that is common in northwestern North America, have been steadily declining for more than a century now, since about 1880. Scientists have advanced several hypotheses expl 63
- As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate. Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reason 83
- TPO-23 - Integrated Writing Task Populations of the yellow cedar, a species of tree that is common in northwestern North America, have been steadily declining for more than a century now, since about 1880. Scientists have advanced several hypotheses expl 75
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, second, so, third
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 : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1137.0 1373.03311258 83% => OK
No of words: 220.0 270.72406181 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16818181818 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.85128510684 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54007141827 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 118.0 145.348785872 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.536363636364 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 338.4 419.366225166 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 47.7189751746 49.2860985944 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.4615384615 110.228320801 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.9230769231 21.698381199 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.61538461538 7.06452816374 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 2.0 4.09492273731 49% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 4.45695364238 224% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.387476444765 0.272083759551 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.134650823203 0.0996497079465 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0876912505442 0.0662205650399 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.272810132835 0.162205337803 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.109399801684 0.0443174109184 247% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.41 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 63.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 19.0 Out of 30
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