The reading passage talks about the endangered Torreya taxifolia trees and their reluctant walk towards extinction. It provides us with three techniques which if properly executed can result in the resurgence of the species. However, the lecturer refuses these claims by providing her own perspective on the changes suggested in the passage.
To begin with, the author suggests re-plantation of the Torreya in their original location. The lecturer disapproves of this idea of re-establishing the Torreya in its native location. She suggests that the micro-climate which hearths the Torreya is experiencing climate change. Due to global warming and the wetlands getting desiccated the micro-climate will not be able to maintain its cold and wet climate on which the tree exists. The drier lands would not be able to sustain the trees and will not be of much use to them.
Another idea suggested by the author was to relocate the trees to a more cooler climate in the north. According to the professor the idea of relocating the species to a more suitable habitat for its revival will also fail. She provides another example of this "human" assisted migration and how it backfired. The Black Locus trees which were facing similar endangerment issues where migrated further north so they can be revived. Although this act lead to the revival of the black locus, the spread of the locus was deadly for other plants and trees native to that habitat which were also on the verge of extinction. The relocation of the Torreya can also provide with the same results and therefore is too risky because of the collateral damage it brings along with itself
And lastly, the author puts forth the idea of preserving the Torreya trees in research centers. The speaker debates against the idea of migrating the trees from the wild to the research centers. According to her such trees will not be able to fight off diseases. Normally, to fend off any disease and to grow resistance against it the species needs a large population and diverse genes. That cannot be sustained inside a laboratory and an outbreak of disease will lead to the extinction of the whole species. Thus, this technique cannot be used to revive Torreya trees.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'is'?
Suggestion: is
...provides us with three techniques which if properly executed can result in the res...
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Line 5, column 69, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[2]
Message: Use only 'cooler' (without 'more') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: cooler
...e author was to relocate the trees to a more cooler climate in the north. According to the ...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...teral damage it brings along with itself And lastly, the author puts forth the id...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, lastly, so, therefore, thus, as to, to begin with
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 : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 30.3222958057 185% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1865.0 1373.03311258 136% => OK
No of words: 372.0 270.72406181 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01344086022 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39173103935 4.04702891845 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69845747358 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 145.348785872 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505376344086 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 574.2 419.366225166 137% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.9645863319 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.1578947368 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5789473684 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.57894736842 7.06452816374 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.27373068433 281% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.284242822283 0.272083759551 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0880532739419 0.0996497079465 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0544669435963 0.0662205650399 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169846570478 0.162205337803 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0552775661999 0.0443174109184 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 63.6247240618 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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