TPO 20 – “let it burn” policy
In the reading, the author claims that the "let it burn" policy was very damaging significantly when it happened in Yellowstone park by pointing out three reasons of support. However, finding this claim questionable and implausible, the lecturer totally repudiates the claim and presents some evidence to the contrary.
At first, the author argues that Yellowstone fires caused a huge amount of damage to the park's trees vegetation. Smaller plants were completely damaged. On the other hand, the lecturer brings up the idea that the Yellowstone fires caused diversity in the vegetation. For example seeds of plants were in a good situation to grow in a high level of temperature.
In addition, the reading holds the view that the destruction of habitat and eliminate of food chains threatened the park wildlife. Conversely, the lecturer disputes this point by clarifying the fact that the Yellowstone fire helps the existence of new small plants habitat which could grow in the shade of fallen trees and created a new opportunity for some animals like rabbit and herd to feed on this small plants. The lecturer explains that predators feed on these animals and as a result, a new food chain had formed.
Finally, the author asserts tourism industry was threatened as the last point for supporting the changing of the “let it burn" policy. The lecturer, though, dismisses it by pointing out that if this event had happened every day, the claim was true but the reason of decreasing tourism at that year was because of low rainfall and strong wind and some other natural disaster. As he stated, the year after that, visitors came back so tourists and the local economy based on tourism increased year by year.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, finally, first, however, if, so, for example, in addition, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1447.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 286.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05944055944 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68557190275 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541958041958 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 439.2 419.366225166 105% => OK
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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.4128338745 49.2860985944 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.583333333 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8333333333 21.698381199 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.83333333333 7.06452816374 125% => OK
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: 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: 0.271663105381 0.272083759551 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0969435438866 0.0996497079465 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0567485451534 0.0662205650399 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.155507911769 0.162205337803 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0609361209785 0.0443174109184 137% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.3589403974 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 65.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 19.5 Out of 30
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