The reading passage and the lecture are both questioning pros and cons of removal of damaged trees from a forset. The author of the snippet believes that trees removal will influence positively on the ecology of the forests. On the other hand, the lecturer considers that the statements made in the reading passage are contravercial, and she reinforces her opinion by providng several examples.
First of all, there is indicated in the reading fragment that forests are choked with the presence of dead trees, which take space and prevent growth of the new trees. However, the speaker asserts that it isn’t right to get rid of the old damaged trees due to their impact in the soil enreachment. Consequently, if people clean forset from dead trees, soil will lack nutrients important for the future trees generations.
The subsequent lecturer agrument is related to the statment made in the excerpt, that removing dead trees will prevent growth of the insect population, which could devastate healthy trees. The speaker disputes this by claiming that not only bad insects live in the dead trees, but also good insects and different species like birds. Thus, depletion of trees can cause deminish of birds and insects population, which are extremely important chains in forest’s ecology.
To sum up, the speaker supposes that arguments made in the reading fragment are slightly questionable, and she believes that removal in damaged tree will cause significant and negative changes in the forest.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, however, if, so, thus, first of all, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1273.0 1373.03311258 93% => OK
No of words: 243.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23868312757 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94822203886 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65896489793 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 145.348785872 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.555555555556 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 376.2 419.366225166 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.8473661761 49.2860985944 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.3 110.228320801 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3 21.698381199 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.7 7.06452816374 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
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: 0.284747088122 0.272083759551 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.113398466446 0.0996497079465 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0458335406175 0.0662205650399 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167143677815 0.162205337803 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.052172109526 0.0443174109184 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 13.3589403974 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.79 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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