yellow cedar declining
The provided materials are concerned with yellow cedar, which is a species of trees native to North America and (it) has been declining for over a century now. The author states that scientists have developed some viable theories regarding the reasons for this decline. In contrast, the lecturer repudiates this point through several counterarguments that are as follows:/.
Initially, the author says that insects, particularly the larvae of the species called cedar bark beetle, might be responsible for this dwindling of trees. However, the lecturer explains that this cannot be true as healthy cedars are quite resistant to insect infestation thanks to the potent chemicals in their bark and leaves. In the case of dead trees with insects within, such trees were already dad or sick due to other reasons, and the insects are not to blame.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, regarding, so, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 12.0772626932 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 10.0 22.412803532 45% => OK
Preposition: 18.0 30.3222958057 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 709.0 1373.03311258 52% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 137.0 270.72406181 51% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17518248175 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.42121322205 4.04702891845 85% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65213732359 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 94.0 145.348785872 65% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.686131386861 0.540411800872 127% => OK
syllable_count: 210.6 419.366225166 50% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 6.0 13.0662251656 46% => 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: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 25.383721818 49.2860985944 52% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 118.166666667 110.228320801 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8333333333 21.698381199 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.83333333333 7.06452816374 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 2.0 4.09492273731 49% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.175757451609 0.272083759551 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0756630315973 0.0996497079465 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107204956662 0.0662205650399 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133269144144 0.162205337803 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0557258961123 0.0443174109184 126% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.3589403974 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.34 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 40.0 63.6247240618 63% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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More content wanted.
Minimum 150 words wanted.
Rates: 40.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 12.0 Out of 30
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