The Reading and the lecture are both about salvage logging, which is a way to cope with problems related to damage of forests after fires or stormscauses. The author believes that there are several economical and natural advantages of this and he points some of them. The professor brings into question the claims made in the lecture. He considers that there is no great deal with this way of management, and also that it is ineffective and could cause serious problems in the long-term.
First, the author comes up with the idea that it is necessary to remove dead trees. It is mentioned that they could be used to make new places for growing more trees immediately. However, the professor argues that removing dead trees will not create better conditions and that in the future there will be a lack of nutrients in the soil due to the lack of humus from the dead tree species.
Second, the author states that insects which live in wood could increase in population and spread out causing an infestation. Meanwhile, the professor rebuts this argument by pointing out that insects have been growing at a large number in the wood for a hundred years without causing any complications. So, this is not that much badly.
Third, the author contends that salvage logging may help industries to raise their capital by benefiting them with jobs and more raw material (lumber). The professor, on the other hand, posits that the economic benefits will be small and will not last. He highlights that for recovering lumber, businesses will need to get some helicopters and other means, spending lots of money. And Finally, there will be just jobs for experienced outsiders, not for proper inhabitants.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 269, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ges of this and he points some of them. The professor brings into question the clai...
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Line 8, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...outsiders, not for proper inhabitants.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, may, second, so, third, while, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1414.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 288.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90972222222 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56165297654 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.576388888889 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 423.0 419.366225166 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => 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: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.0788424964 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.0 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5714285714 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06452816374 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.349556871557 0.272083759551 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0982520405094 0.0996497079465 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0580980421106 0.0662205650399 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17648470805 0.162205337803 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0282796504951 0.0443174109184 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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