TPO-14 - Integrated Writing Task Every year, forest fires and severe stormscause a great deal of damage to forests in the northwestern United States. One way of dealing with the aftermath of these disasters is called salvage logging, which is the practice

The lecturer rejects the idea presented in the reading passage about the positive impact salvage logging has on the damaged forest and the economy. In her opinion, salvage logging is harmful in the long run.

First, the lecturer does not agree with the point made in the reading passage that salvage logging is likely to help forest areas recover from the disaster by creating more rooms for the new tree. She contends that cleaning up after the disaster is not necessary. When the dead tree decomposes, they will make the environment more suitable for the next generation to grow.

The lecture goes on to refutes the claim in the reading passage that the insect living in the dead tree will damage the healthy trees. On the contrary, she argues, the research shows that the spruce bark beetle has not caused damage for many years. Also, the dead tree is used by animals, like birds, that influence the forest environment positively. So salvage logging will be harmful in the long run.

Additionally, the lecturer challenges the economic advantage of salvage logging mentioned in the reading. She reasons that the dead tree can only be salvaged at a very high cost. Besides, the job salvage logging creates is temperate and requires a lot professional knowledge which local residents do not possess. Thus, the economic benefits of salvage logging is not convincing.

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Average: 7.3 (3 votes)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, first, so, thus, on the contrary

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1145.0 1373.03311258 83% => OK
No of words: 229.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89008302616 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45605141533 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 125.0 145.348785872 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.545851528384 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 355.5 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.116997792494 855% => Less interrogative sentences wanted.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.2514287298 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.0769230769 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6153846154 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.61538461538 7.06452816374 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
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: 0.462289586548 0.272083759551 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.157308372139 0.0996497079465 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0619555329196 0.0662205650399 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.281073071067 0.162205337803 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0453814437638 0.0443174109184 102% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.42 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.13 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 63.6247240618 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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flaws:
No. of Words: 229 250 //need more details

read the sample essay from ETS:
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It has a lot of details and it has 268 words.

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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 22 in 30
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 12
No. of Words: 229 250
No. of Characters: 1110 1200
No. of Different Words: 127 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.89 4.2
Average Word Length: 4.847 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.38 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 83 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 70 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 34 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 17 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.615 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.989 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.462 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.384 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.585 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.141 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4