The reding and lecture are both about supression of forest fires. While the author of article argues that the supression of fires have improved the forest conditions in numerous way, the lecturer disputes the claims presented in the article. Her position is that supression of forest fires have had a long term deterimental effect on forests.
According to the author the fire suppersion has allowed maturation of many oak tree in the hickory at the Eastern Seaboard. He states that improved tree conditions have allowed treetops to form a continous canopy. The lecturer challenges this argument and states that the maturation of only already grown trees have taken place. She states due to thick oak trees forming canopy as made it difficult for the light to penetrate to the forest bed where the yound oak seeding still require light to grow.
Secondly author states that suppersion of fires have allowed growth of vines and other plants closer to the ground. He also puts forth a point stating that due chemical toxicins released due to forest fires, the nutrient value of soil decreses. The lecturer however, asserts that not only small vines but overall competetion of trees have increased. Maple trees are overtaking the oak offspring population in hickory. She also states that when forest fires occur they release large number nutrients to the forest bed from the burned plants. She states these nutrient are very essential for growth of young plants.
Lastly the author states sure to suppersion of fire it has benefited the wildlife. The deer population in the hickory as increased largely. In contrast, the lecturer stance is that due to increase in deer population there is a deleterious effect on the oak population. She says that the young oak trees that have survived the dreadful circumstances due to lack of light and maple trees taking over, get eaten by the deers.
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- While they are important for storing water and generating power dams also play a significant role in curbing global warming This is in spite of all the arguments against dams that are brought up by environmentalists One such complaint is that hydroelectri 60
- Wilderness management has advanced greatly over the last century due in part to such practices as the suppression of forest fires and limitations on the clear cutting of trees Monitoring forests for small brushfires is easier with aircraft as is the 71
- In the 1950s Torreya Taxifolia a type of evergreen tree once very common in the state of Florida started to die out No one is sure exactly what caused the decline but chances are good that if nothing is done Torreya will soon become extinct Experts are co 75
- Online graduate degree programs are being offered worldwide In many respects the programs are like the same degree programs available in a traditional campus environment but in several key aspects they are very different First online degree programs do no 80
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, still, while, in contrast
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: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1579.0 1373.03311258 115% => OK
No of words: 314.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02866242038 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20951839842 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49647607536 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.503184713376 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 486.9 419.366225166 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.6324247533 49.2860985944 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.8823529412 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4705882353 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.64705882353 7.06452816374 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.177470300345 0.272083759551 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0608606157169 0.0996497079465 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0333155137367 0.0662205650399 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114463120214 0.162205337803 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0164910928371 0.0443174109184 37% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 13.3589403974 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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