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

The passage uses a specific example to discuss how forest fires was treated in the United State has changed. Since the 1960s, people had tented to believe that the best way to deal with forest fires is to "let it burn". However, after a devastating wild fire in Yellowstone in 1988, this has started to change.

In that disaster, people began to realize that human intervention to forest fire is necessary, and three reasons are discussed in the passage. First, the fire can cause an inestimable damage to the plants and other vegetation. To be specific, around a third of the park's big plants and almost all of the small plants were eliminated during the wild fire. Second, the fire has also affected animals. While big animals were witnessed to escape from the fire, smaller ones were unable to do so. What is more, the fire has also made the forest inhabitable for animals. Last but not least, this disaster has resulted in a dramatic drop in the number of tourists visiting the national park, which is of great economic significance.

Based on the three reasons above, many people has been convinced that the "let it burn" policy is not suitable for getting rid of forest fires in the wake of the 1988 wild fire in Yellowstone.

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Average: 7 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 170, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
... the passage. First, the fire can cause a inestimable damage to the plants and ot...
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Line 3, column 170, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'inestimable damage'.
Suggestion: inestimable damage
... the passage. First, the fire can cause a inestimable damage to the plants and other vegetation. To ...
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Line 3, column 293, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...hird of the parks big plants and almost all of the small plants were eliminated during the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, second, so, third, while, what is more

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 12.0772626932 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 22.412803532 40% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalization wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1018.0 1373.03311258 74% => OK
No of words: 211.0 270.72406181 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.82464454976 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.81127787577 4.04702891845 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55499032524 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 123.0 145.348785872 85% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.582938388626 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 326.7 419.366225166 78% => 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
Interrogative: 1.0 0.116997792494 855% => Less interrogative sentences wanted.
Article: 4.0 8.23620309051 49% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.0686555503 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.5454545455 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1818181818 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.81818181818 7.06452816374 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.440332460016 0.272083759551 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.163291000929 0.0996497079465 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0420723281869 0.0662205650399 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.284770011546 0.162205337803 176% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0550626552526 0.0443174109184 124% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 12.2367328918 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 63.6247240618 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.

Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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