TPO 38- In 1995 a microscopic fungus called Phytophthora ramorum, or P. ramorum, was first detected in the forests of the western United States. P. ramorum infects trees and causes particularly serious damage in oak trees: in many infected oaks, leaves wither rapidly, large cracks appear in the bark, and the trees die. A spread of P. ramorum represents a serious threat to the forests in the western states. Several methods of protecting the forests have been proposed.
The reading and lecture are both about Phytophthora ramorum it is first seen in western United States, which infects trees and poses threats to oak tress. The author in the passage believes that the method of preservation of trees from P. ramorum has advantages. However, the lecturer casts doubts about the claims made in the article, saying that the techniques have serious limitation, ineffective and impractical uses.
First of all, the author points out that spread of the spores can easily managed through the help of the humans. The article notes that individual can prevent the spores by spreading by having shoes to be cleaned before going into hike and installing bike scrubbers on trail and this way is very effective and cheap. Conversely, the point is challenged by the lecturer. She says that human involvement will not eradicate the problem. Furthermore, she argues that the spores were not spreading because of humans, but rather it is because of the water stream and rain fall transferring the spores with them and they carry it on long distances.
Secondly, the author contends that fungicidal are effective in protecting the oak tress. The article establishes that the fungicidal help the oak tress combat the infection of P. ramorum. On the contrary, the lecturer rebuts this argument. She suggests that this method is impractical due to the chemical need to be directly injected to the tree and this technique needs to be repeated every time. Moreover, she elaborates on this by mentioning that it only work in small group of trees and in forest where many oak trees are present this way will not work because the chemical application need to be re applied every few months. In addition, it is expensive and time consuming.
Finally, the author states that combating P. ramorum will be possible by clear cutting. The article denotes that clearing the diseased vegetation and healthy oaks this approach will prevent the spread of the spores. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that this technique will destroy the healthy vegetation that are not affected by P. ramorum. She puts forth the idea that in western United States a rare species of trees live and they don't grow immediately and by using this technique the whole ecosystem will be damaged.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 442, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...s a rare species of trees live and they dont grow immediately and by using this tech...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, finally, first, furthermore, however, moreover, second, secondly, in addition, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 7.30242825607 205% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 22.412803532 165% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 30.3222958057 152% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1903.0 1373.03311258 139% => OK
No of words: 380.0 270.72406181 140% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00789473684 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41515443553 4.04702891845 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57660876782 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 145.348785872 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510526315789 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 576.0 419.366225166 137% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.3516707189 49.2860985944 124% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.15 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.2 7.06452816374 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less 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: 0.171591006797 0.272083759551 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0503903140193 0.0996497079465 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0792337253234 0.0662205650399 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116077830748 0.162205337803 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0862777576408 0.0443174109184 195% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.3589403974 88% => 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: 11.78 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 63.6247240618 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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