In this reading, a species of tree called yellow cedar are declining possibly due to three reasons, however, according to the lecture, the evidence of all reasons are not adequate to prove to attribute to their declining.
First of all,the reading claims that insect parasites especially the cedar bark beetle may lead to their declining. However, the lecture assumes that yellow cedar is more resistant to the cedar bark beetle than other trees, so they are unlikely to damage so many trees. What’s more, the beetles choose to attack the sick trees, which probably will die in spite of the beetles’ attack.
In addition, the declining of yellow cedar trees are declining in many parts of the country. They are also declining in Ireland, while there is no bear in Ireland, so we cannot blame the declining on bears as well.
At last, the theory about roots is not convincing, too. The hypothesis is based on the assumption that trees are more likely to die in cold climates, however, according to the research, many more trees died in warm weather than cold weather, which proves that the timing of root growth is not the cause of declining of the yellow cedar.
In conclusion, the reason of why the trees are declining are not obvious. We can not blame the declining on insect parasites, the bears or the climate due to the above reasons.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 13, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , the
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, may, so, well, while, in addition, in conclusion, first of all, in spite of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 1.0 7.30242825607 14% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1129.0 1373.03311258 82% => OK
No of words: 233.0 270.72406181 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.84549356223 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.90696013833 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48635318187 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 120.0 145.348785872 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.515021459227 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 349.2 419.366225166 83% => 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.2873647806 49.2860985944 132% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.9 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3 21.698381199 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.2 7.06452816374 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => 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: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.362453056033 0.272083759551 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.138890703593 0.0996497079465 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0550277976739 0.0662205650399 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.187567804124 0.162205337803 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0417156244143 0.0443174109184 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.15 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 47.0 63.6247240618 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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