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.
The reading and the lecture are both about "let it burn" policy affecting to Yellowstone park. The author of the reading feels that this policy damaged badly to the forest as well as local economy. This argument challenged the claims made by the lecturer. She is of the opinion that forest fire is totally natural ecology, therefore "let it burn" policy is good one.
First, the writer argues that the long lasting fires made a bad effect to all plants, trees in the forest. It adds that Yellowstone park was no more a national scene because there were no living plants there. But the professor casts doubt this opinion by stating that fires made old tree die out but helped new trees appear. She explained that some small trees were difficult to live with the shadow of big trees, so thanks to fire, they can grow up. Consiquently, the forest becomes more diversity than ever.
Second, the reader posits that wildlife animals were affected by "let it burn" policy. Additionally, it mentions that the forest fires damaged to animal's food. The lecturer, however, rebuts this idea by stating that because the fires made small trees alive, these trees became new nuitrion for small animals such as heer. Therefore, the food chain becomes stronger than before.
Finally, the writer states that Yellowstone park becomes an attractive destination to many visitors. But due to the fire, travelors did not come there. Moreover, it gives the opinion that local restaurants were affected by this also. In contrast, the professor thinks that it only affected to traveling activity on the year, when the fire was happening. But after strong wind stopped the fire, tours at the park came back normal and many tourist still want to come there each year.
- Because of climate change more and more land that was once used to grow crops or provide food for animals is turning to dry unusable desert land There are many proposals about how to stop this process known as desertification A number of proposals involve 81
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Overall the widespread use of the internet has a mostly positive effect on life in today s world Use reasons and details to support your opinion 76
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Parents today are more involved in their children s education than parents were in the past 65
- 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 f 61
- It is better to relax by watching a movie or reading a book than doing physical exercise 70
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 229, Rule ID: ALSO_SENT_END[1]
Message: 'Also' is not used at the end of the sentence. Use 'as well' instead.
Suggestion: as well
...local restaurants were affected by this also. In contrast, the professor thinks that...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, moreover, second, so, still, therefore, well, in contrast, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1483.0 1373.03311258 108% => OK
No of words: 296.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01013513514 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14784890444 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38146442523 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.567567567568 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 461.7 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.1285465175 49.2860985944 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 82.3888888889 110.228320801 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.4444444444 21.698381199 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.55555555556 7.06452816374 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 4.45695364238 247% => 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: 0.222226824551 0.272083759551 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0729787212986 0.0996497079465 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0680386667595 0.0662205650399 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138533802505 0.162205337803 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0541750875987 0.0443174109184 122% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 13.3589403974 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.48 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 61.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.5 Out of 30
---------------------
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.