TPO-20 - Integrated Writing Task 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 dama

There is an strategy to supress forest fires called "let it burn" that is criticizes in the passage. The aim of the lecture is to defend this strategy and answer to the concerns related to it.

First, it is stated that the natural forest fires have a lot of advantages. For example, one can consider vegitation. Firing can provide the opportunity of growing new types of plants. As an example, some seeds can grow only in high temprature and firing may help growing these kinds of seeds.

Second, it is also applicable for animal life. Changing the environment would affect on the animal species that can survive. For instance, small length plants that is caused by firing, are very appropriate for rabits and hares. As a consequense, firing would provide the opportunity of living new species like rabits and hare. The increase in the population of these new animals results in the increase of their predators as well.

Finally, another concern about "let it burn" strategy is due to its effect on tourism. Generally it might affect the tourism if such events like Yellowstone happen every year but in fact, it only happened once in 1988.

In conclusion, let it burn strategy not only suppress the forest fires but also has lots of benefints in plant and animal species life.

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Average: 6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 10, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
There is an strategy to supress forest fires called...
^^
Line 3, column 265, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[5]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to grow' or 'grow'.
Suggestion: to grow; grow
... in high temprature and firing may help growing these kinds of seeds. Second, it is ...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 79, Rule ID: AFFECT_EFFECT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'effect'?
Suggestion: effect
...al life. Changing the environment would affect on the animal species that can survive. Fo...
^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, if, may, second, so, well, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in fact

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 12.0772626932 33% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1089.0 1373.03311258 79% => OK
No of words: 220.0 270.72406181 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.85128510684 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58288630274 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 145.348785872 87% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.572727272727 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 343.8 419.366225166 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.23620309051 24% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => OK
Sentence length SD: 26.8929282868 49.2860985944 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 77.7857142857 110.228320801 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.7142857143 21.698381199 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.35714285714 7.06452816374 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.239916507896 0.272083759551 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0842216396283 0.0996497079465 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0535946048007 0.0662205650399 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135275465598 0.162205337803 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0450666883535 0.0443174109184 102% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 13.3589403974 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.13 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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