The reading and the passage are about a certain type of tree, dubbed yellow cedar. The reading provides three possible reasons for the decline of that tree, however, the lecture refutes all the claims in the reading.
First of all, the article states that insects parasite, especially the cedar bark beetles, are the cause of the death and decline of the cedar trees. The professor, on the other hand, rejects this claim and he explains that the healthy trees produce very powerful chemicals that kill insects trying to attack the trees. Those beetles affect only the sick or weak tress which are already going to die, but they have no effect on the healthy trees.
Second, the passage contends that the decline of the tree could be because of the brown bears and their aggressive feeding habits. The speaker, in contrast, rebuts this supposition by elaborating that the tree exists along the coast of United States, and in some islands as well. The islands do not contain any bears, but the trees keep declining. Therefore, it is conspicuous that bears is not the reason for the decrease of the tress.
Third, the reading posits that the climate change in the recent years may be the culprit. Conversely, the professor points out that the decline of that plant species happens not only at the high elevation, but also at the low elevations where the temperature is not so cold. Thus, it is unlikely that the cold or the climate change are responsible for the this phenomenon.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 39, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'insects'' or 'insect's'?
Suggestion: insects'; insect's
... First of all, the article states that insects parasite, especially the cedar bark bee...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 181, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...er, in contrast, rebuts this supposition by elaborating that the tree exists alon...
^^
Line 8, column 70, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...t the climate change in the recent years may be the culprit. Conversely, the prof...
^^
Line 8, column 354, Rule ID: DT_DT[2]
Message: Maybe you need to remove the second determiner so that only 'the' or 'this' is left.
Suggestion: the; this
... the climate change are responsible for the this phenomenon.
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, first, however, may, second, so, therefore, third, thus, well, in contrast, first of all, on the other hand
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 : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1233.0 1373.03311258 90% => OK
No of words: 255.0 270.72406181 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.83529411765 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99608801488 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.32943817243 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 145.348785872 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.580392156863 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 366.3 419.366225166 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.5222934695 49.2860985944 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.75 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.25 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.8333333333 7.06452816374 153% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.352892884069 0.272083759551 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111232672296 0.0996497079465 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.044476397331 0.0662205650399 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.179791372103 0.162205337803 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0206754322433 0.0443174109184 47% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 53.8541721854 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.79 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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