In the United States, it had been common practice since the late 1960s not to suppress natural forest fires. The "let it burn" policy assumed that forest fire would burn themselves out quickly, without causing much damage. However, in the summer of 1988, forest fires in Yellowstone, the most famous national park in the country, burned for more than two months and spread over a huge area, encompassing more than 800,000 acres. Because of the large scale of the damage, many people called for replacing the "let it burn" policy with a policy of extinguishing forest fires as soon as they appeared. Three kinds of damage caused by the "let it burn" policy were emphasized by critics of the policy.
First, Yellowstone fires caused tremendous damage to the park's trees and other vegetation. When the fires finally died out, nearly one third of Yellowstone's land had been scorched. Trees were charred and blackened from flames and smoke. Smaller plants were entirely incinerated. What had been a national treasure now seemed like a devastated wasteland.
Second, the park wildlife was affected as well. Large animals like deer and elk were seen fleeing the fire. Many smaller species were probably unable to escape. There was also concern that the destruction of habitats and the disruption of food chains would make it impossible for the animals that survived the fire to return.
Third, the fires compromised the value of the park as a tourist attraction, which in turn had negative consequences for the local economy. With several thousand acres of the park engulfed in flames, the tourist season was cut short, and a large number of visitors decided to stay away. Of course, local businesses that depended on park visitors suffered as a result.
Both the reading and the lecture discuss the consequence of the “let it burn” policy. In the reading material, the writer states three pieces of evidence regarding how the policy led to detrimental effect on the Yellowstone forest. The lecturer, on the other hand, believes that fires are part of our ecological system, therefore, none of the mentioned arguments is convincing.
First of all, the writer explains that the Yellowstone fires caused a loss of many trees and small plants were covered by smoke and flames, which left the forest in an inhospitable situation. Conversely, the speaker disagrees with the belief saying that losing big trees opened an opportunity for smaller plants and some seeds to grow. Indeed, the fire turned the forest into an open and unshaded land, therefore, more sunlight penetrated the forest.
Second of all, many animals were negatively affected by the policy, according to the reading. In fact, small species were incapable of running away. Furthermore, even if large animals managed to survive, the area was unhabitual. Conversely, the professor argues that the Yellowstone fires enabled smaller animals like rabbit and hair to exploit the forest because of the existence of smaller plants. She adds predators started to return to the forest because the food chains have become stronger.
Finally, the fires impacted adversely the economy, the author reports. Of course, many tourists stopped visiting the forest due to the fires. In contrast, the lecturer refutes this statement. She says that year, the forest experienced strong winds and a little rain fall, which led explorers to stop coming. Actually. On the following year, people started to visit because the forest return to its normal condition. Therefore, domestic shops could not have gone out of business.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
...oke and flames, which left the forest in an inhospitable situation. Conversely, t...
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Suggestion:
...ps could not have gone out of business.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, conversely, finally, first, furthermore, if, regarding, second, so, therefore, in contrast, in fact, of course, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1532.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 289.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.30103806228 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12310562562 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59726788325 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.60553633218 0.540411800872 112% => OK
syllable_count: 474.3 419.366225166 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
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: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.4938373713 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.1176470588 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0 21.698381199 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06452816374 127% => 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 : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => 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: 0.221188816895 0.272083759551 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0613429255326 0.0996497079465 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0511311395062 0.0662205650399 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127202072275 0.162205337803 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0263023697002 0.0443174109184 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.16 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.12 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 63.6247240618 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => 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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