Because of climate change, more and more land that was once used to grow crops or provide food for animals is turning to dry, unusable desert land. There are many proposals about how to stop this process, known as desertification. A number of proposals involve growing trees, because trees can help protect soil and provide many other benefits to fight against desertification. Some scientists have proposed that the best way to grow trees in dry areas in danger of desertification is by using a box-shaped device surrounding the young tree. The device collects water that condenses from vapor in the atmosphere and helps the tree to grow. However, other scientists believe that this device will not be successful in fighting against desertification for the following reasons.
First, at a cost of 25 U S. dollars each, the device would make growing trees a prohibitively expensive process. Meaningful efforts to fight desertification involve growing millions of trees. Some countries most affected by desertification cannot afford to buy devices for millions of trees
Second, plans for fighting desertification involve asking local people to install and maintain the devices. People living in some of the areas most affected by desertification work long days in harsh conditions: sometimes barely managing to provide food for their families. It would be difficult to motivate these people to look after trees that cannot serve as a source of food for them.
Third, the device's ability to collect and conserve water is limited. Each one provides only enough water to keep a small tree alive. Trees that have outgrown the device have to deal with unforgiving environmental conditions on their own. In some places where the devices are being tried, six months can pass without a drop of rain. Once the trees become too big for the device, they may not be able to survive in such a harsh environment.
The reading asserts that the process of desertification is a way that can help drought area to not to be a desert anymore. These need a process named desertification. Although some people might think that it is a suitable solution, others find it useless and they believed like a waste of time and energy. The lecture, however, finds the idea dubious and cast doubt on the reason proposed by the reading passage.
The author argues that Producing a box-shaped device around young trees to condense water from air and humidity in desert cost 25 U.S. dollars for every single tree which makes it so expensive to investigate that money for numerous trees. Conversely, the lecturer brings up the idea that these kinds of devices are not one time used devices and it is possible for them to be used around 20 times. Therefore, whenever trees grow up and getting bigger the device of that tree can be used for another tree.
Furthermore, the reading passage holds the view that the process of desertification involving asking local people to install and maintain the devices. As we know the people around the desert area are living in a harsh condition and they are barely available to provide for food. Therefore, it will cost a lot for them to cost that money for installing devices. On the contrary, the professor underlines the fact that not only maintaining and installing this kind of device is proper for desertification, but also would it helps them to provide water for other plans like growing vegetables beside when the trees get larger, they can use their branches for the firewall.
Finally, the reading asserts that the device is not available to collect so much water and its water is not enough to keep a grown-up tree alive and the tree should deal with water issues by its self. In contrast, the speaker dismisses the issue due to the fact that whenever a tree grows up its root can penetrate the soil and become stable. and its resistance against less water will get better. For instance, in the Sahara desert, 90 percent of the tree which grows with devices and had left alone after getting bigger were still alive.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 344, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: And
...n penetrate the soil and become stable. and its resistance against less water will ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, finally, furthermore, however, if, so, still, therefore, for instance, in contrast, kind of, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 7.48453608247 174% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 4.92783505155 203% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 15.0 5.05154639175 297% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 15.0 3.03092783505 495% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 33.0 32.9175257732 100% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 26.3917525773 159% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 3.85567010309 207% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1768.0 937.175257732 189% => OK
No of words: 371.0 206.0 180% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.76549865229 4.54256449028 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38877662729 3.78020617076 116% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52778746369 2.54303337028 99% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 127.690721649 150% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517520215633 0.622605031667 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 553.5 290.88556701 190% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.41237113402 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 9.13402061856 33% => OK
Article: 8.0 0.824742268041 970% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 1.83505154639 163% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.463917525773 431% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 1.44329896907 208% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 12.6804123711 118% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 16.3608247423 147% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 65.779632106 44.8134815571 147% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.866666667 76.5299724578 154% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7333333333 16.8248392259 147% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.73333333333 4.34317383033 201% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.29896907216 93% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 2.54639175258 39% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 7.41237113402 94% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 1.49484536082 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.94845360825 127% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.126490176211 0.216113520407 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0473524223746 0.0766984524023 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0305618349955 0.0603063233224 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0796035314029 0.12726935374 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0383413441858 0.0580467560999 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 8.37731958763 160% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 70.7449484536 79% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 3.82989690722 81% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 7.45979381443 154% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 8.71597938144 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 7.59969072165 104% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 41.2886597938 174% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 8.62886597938 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 8.54432989691 136% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 8.15463917526 147% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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