Organic food
The reading and the lecture are both about the benefits of organic foods such as fruits and vegetables. According to the reading passage, there are several benefits to the consumption of organic foods, which eventually may have a significant impact on human health. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made by the article. She suggests that foods grown organically are not as wholesome as they seem to be.
First of all, many organic farmers use chemicals, known as the unofficial pesticides, whose possible negative impact, as to when the organic food is consumed, has been proven. In addition, organic fruits and vegetables grown with the use of chemical fertilizers are detrimental to health and may even lead to the development of Parkinson's disease. However, the author of the reading refers to the research findings, according to which the intake of artificial additives found in non-organic food harms children. In addition, he states that since organic foods do not contain pesticides, there is no reason for concern about the quality of this product.
Furthermore, farmers using organic technologies may cause more serious environmental problems by applying pesticides, which end up becoming waste, polluting the land and water. Given the fact that organic farms need much more acreage to grow the same amount of crop than do large corporations, more land needs to be cleared of forests, leading to deforestation. However, the author of the reading contends that unlike traditional agricultural methods, organic farming using negligible amounts of chemicals pursues environmentally-friendly practices.
Additionally, the lecturer puts forth the idea that the production of organic food does not actually favor small farms owing to the fact that large corporations cultivate similar but non-organic crops at a smaller cost. Since 1982, when it became far-famed to grow organic foods, large corporations entered the market by producing organic vegetables and fruits but selling the crops under the sister companies’ labels. This counters the point made in the article, according to which organic food benefits the small farms.
Overall, the evidence referred to by the lecturer challenges the idea that organic farming is as beneficial as the reading states.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, as to, in addition, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 13.0 22.412803532 58% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 30.3222958057 152% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1921.0 1373.03311258 140% => OK
No of words: 354.0 270.72406181 131% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42655367232 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98737194524 2.5805825403 116% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 145.348785872 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545197740113 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 593.1 419.366225166 141% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => 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: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.5239511075 49.2860985944 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.066666667 110.228320801 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6 21.698381199 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.53333333333 7.06452816374 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.505261395939 0.272083759551 186% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.194455824342 0.0996497079465 195% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.112739675617 0.0662205650399 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.29253459891 0.162205337803 180% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.133348630073 0.0443174109184 301% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 13.3589403974 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 53.8541721854 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.51 12.2367328918 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.01 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 63.6247240618 149% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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