Genetic modification
The reading passage suggests that using genetic modification on plants can benefit the environment and agriculture, but the lecture speaker provides some arguments against the reading passage.
The reading passage implies that genetically modified trees can be more likely to survive than the trees that are not modified. On the contrary, the lecture speaker says that the genetically modified plants are more uniform in their genes and would be more likely to be wiped out when new pests are introduced in the environment and are more vulnerable to climate changes. The unmodified plants have more variety in their genes and are more likely to survive to unknown environment crisis and pass on their genes to their offsprings.
Secondly, the lecture speaker thinks that instead of bringing profit to the farmer, the cost of genetically modified plants is so high that it actually hurts the profit. Not only the seeds are more expensive, each time when the farmers plant a new genetically modified plant, but they also need to pay an extra fee to the merchants.
Finally, the lecture suggests that genetically modified plants would harm the native plants due to their survivability. They will out compete for resources such as sunlight, water, and nutrition in soil with native plants, therefore, harm the native ecosystem.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, such as, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1119.0 1373.03311258 81% => OK
No of words: 214.0 270.72406181 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22897196262 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.82475343497 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65861569254 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 110.0 145.348785872 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.514018691589 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 351.9 419.366225166 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
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: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 37.4146946399 49.2860985944 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.875 110.228320801 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.75 21.698381199 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.375 7.06452816374 161% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.181445950108 0.272083759551 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0863794173144 0.0996497079465 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0664158739734 0.0662205650399 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119752089674 0.162205337803 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0638570523873 0.0443174109184 144% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 13.3589403974 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 53.8541721854 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.35 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 47.0 63.6247240618 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 10.7273730684 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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