TPO-23 - Integrated Writing Task Populations of the yellow cedar, a species of tree that is common in northwestern North America, have been steadily declining for more than a century now, since about 1880. Scientists have advanced several hypotheses expla
The reading passage states that populations of the yellow cedar which is a species mostly grown in northwestern North America, have constantly been decreasing and provides three reasons for supporting the claim. The professor, meanwhile, casts serious doubts on this idea and believes that none of these hypotheses are adequate to answer all the questions relating to this phenomenon.
First, the reading passage asserts that yellow cedar may be invaded by insect parasites, especially the cedar bark beetle, while the lecturer thinks that this hypothesis is problematic. He comments that a fresh cedar is highly resistant to insects than other species because their barks and leaves are fully saturated. Thus, it is unlikely to suffer any damage from beetles. In fact, since beetles only can be found in dead trees, they are not a fundamental problem for healthy cedars.
Second, although the reading claims that brown bears have aggressive feeding habits and also sometimes claw at the cedar to eat tree bark which has a high sugar content, the professor makes the argument that brown bears cannot be the reason for the decline of this species. He says that this phenomenon also has happened in other areas and since there is no brown bear in these places, they cannot be considered as a problem.
Third, the passage posits that the gradual alteration of climate may be the cause for this decline because these changes have affected the root system of the yellow cedar tree and they freeze on cold winter nights which might lead to undermining the health of the whole tree. The lecturer, however, refutes this notion and declares that if freezing damage were responsible for the decline, it might have happened for other species in the cold weather of the high elevations. Therefore, even though the climate change may have made the cedar sensitive, it is not possible to be responsible for killing them.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, third, thus, while, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1596.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 316.0 270.72406181 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05063291139 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21620550194 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47634215517 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 145.348785872 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.566455696203 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 488.7 419.366225166 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 63.5544927894 49.2860985944 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.090909091 110.228320801 132% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.7272727273 21.698381199 132% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.36363636364 7.06452816374 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
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 : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.535654356551 0.272083759551 197% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.18320177032 0.0996497079465 184% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.11423115374 0.0662205650399 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.296054017981 0.162205337803 183% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.092755278472 0.0443174109184 209% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 13.3589403974 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 53.8541721854 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.92 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 63.6247240618 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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