summarize the points in the passage, being sure to explain the deline of the yellow cedar described in the reading passage
In the reading passage, the author discusses several advanced hypotheses that are used to explain the steadily decline of the yellow cedar, a species of tree that is common in northwestern North America. While the lecture claims that what the passage state is not convincing and disputes those ideas presented in the passage with some proofs.
Firstly, according to the reading passage, it is suggested that the yellow cedar decline may be caused by bark bettle because this bettle is known to attack cedar trees and eat the wood according to the recorded instances of beetle attacks overwhelming and killing yellow cedar. In contrast, the professor argues in the lecture that it is not true. It is acknowledged that the healthy yellow cedar are generally much more resistant to beetle as their bark and leaves are saturated with powerful chemicals that are poisonous to insects. Due to the fact that healthy cedars are unlikely to suffer from insect damage, this explanation is not quite reasonable.
In addition, the statement in the reading material indicates that the brow bears may have caused the decline of the yellow cedar. Since the tree bark contains a high sugar content, bears claw at the cedars in order to eat the tree bark, which could critically weaken the trees. On the contrary, the professor points out that yellow cedar population's
been declining on islands off the cost where no bear is found. Therefore, the deline occurs with and without bears, the bears cannot be responsible.
Finally, the author of the reading claims that the yellow cedar decline should be attributed to gradual climate changes, which makes the roots now start growing in the late winter rather than in the early spring. As a result, this frozen root damage may be used to explain the decline of the yellow cedar. However, the speaker argues that this hypothsis is not true since more trees are found dying on the lower elevation.
- A person should never make an important decision alone 80
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement When teachers assign projects on which students must work together the students learn much more effectively than when they are asked to work alone on projects Use specific reasons and examples to supp 93
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is better to live in one town or city all your life than to move from one place to another Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 90
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement For a success in a future job the ability to relate well to people is more important than studying hard in school 81
- It is more important for governments to spend money to improve Internet access than to improve public transportation 90
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, however, may, so, therefore, while, in addition, in contrast, as a result, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.4613686534 191% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1606.0 1373.03311258 117% => OK
No of words: 324.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95679012346 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42320709644 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.518518518519 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 492.3 419.366225166 117% => 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: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.3197759207 49.2860985944 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.538461538 110.228320801 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.9230769231 21.698381199 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.23076923077 7.06452816374 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.291929746862 0.272083759551 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.094846753746 0.0996497079465 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0599774297 0.0662205650399 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150670706277 0.162205337803 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0519059767084 0.0443174109184 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.3589403974 108% => 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: 11.78 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 10.7273730684 168% => 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: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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