In the United States, it had been common practice since the late 1960s no 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 listening materials have a conflict of opinions.
the author believes that "let it burn" policy have more problems Than what it solves, however, The speaker holds opposite view.
First, the author states that the yellow stone fires caused tremendous Damage to park's trees for many of them burned to the ground. In that fire, almost one-third of the park completely burned out and as result many of trees species destroyed. However, the speaker explains that the destruction of park caused diversity among old inhabitants. According to the speaker due to the loss of a part of former vegetation new small plants find a suitable place to grow. Moreover, some seeds that only grow in the high temperature started to grow as soon as fire ends. These new plants rapidly replaced destroyed part of the park.
Second, the author mentions animal species that died during the fire to reinforce his view. The speaker argues that with the growth of small plants new small species like rabbit s had a chance to grow in population and thus attracted larger predator animals like bears to the area. These changes led to a stronger ecosystem chain.
Lastly, the author argues that the fire damaged the tourist economy and its related jobs. The speaker refutes this point by saying that fire only affected tourism in that year and every following year was normal. Moreover, events like the yellowstone fire happen rarely when unlikely conditions happen at the same time. According to the speaker in the yellowstone case, strong wind and very small amount of rainfall caused the fire.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
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Message: The verb after "to" should be in the base form: 'park'.
Suggestion: park
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...acted larger predator animals like bears to the area. These changes led to a stro...
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Message: The adverb 'rarely' is usually put before the verb 'happen'.
Suggestion: rarely happen
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, lastly, moreover, second, so, third, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 1.0 10.4613686534 10% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => 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: 1338.0 1373.03311258 97% => OK
No of words: 266.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03007518797 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03850299372 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.37615398293 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.575187969925 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 401.4 419.366225166 96% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.5925917759 49.2860985944 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.2 110.228320801 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7333333333 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.8 7.06452816374 54% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 4.45695364238 247% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.128788892452 0.272083759551 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0406964884424 0.0996497079465 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0502972810239 0.0662205650399 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.071880558727 0.162205337803 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0679189702965 0.0443174109184 153% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 13.3589403974 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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