TPO 23
Both the author and the lecturer discuss the reasons why the population of yellow cedar trees has declined for more than a century. While the author states three possible hypotheses for this decline, the lecturer disagrees with these hypotheses, casting doubt on every single point he made.
First, the author states that insects called beetle are responsible for cedar bark trees' decline since they attack them, eating the wood. In opposition to this, the lecturer brings up the idea that healthy cedar bark trees are resistant to insects more than any other trees. Furthermore, they produce a powerful chemical poisonous to insects. Thus, it is highly unlikely that these insects damage such tress.
Second, the author believes that brown bears used trees aggressively, eating the sugar of the tree bark. However, the lecturer disagrees with his claim, stating that the cedar bark trees of mainland and island where there are no brown bears have declined as well. Therefore, such trees have declined with or without the existence of brown bears.
Finally, the author argues that climate affects the root system of these trees, being the reason of tress' decline as growing roots are sensitive to cold weather. On the contrary, the author possesses the view that the trees in low elevations where the weather is warm have declined more than trees in high elevations where the weather is cold. Hence, this can easily be inferred that climate change cannot be the cause of such trees' decline.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, hence, however, second, so, therefore, thus, well, while, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1256.0 1373.03311258 91% => OK
No of words: 246.0 270.72406181 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10569105691 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96035189615 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.2590510222 2.5805825403 88% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.565040650407 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 378.0 419.366225166 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.6253460671 49.2860985944 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.666666667 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.5 7.06452816374 120% => 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 : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.414646042129 0.272083759551 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.154327810857 0.0996497079465 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.071668402103 0.0662205650399 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.244307823375 0.162205337803 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0413384848422 0.0443174109184 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
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: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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