The article discusses the decline of the yellow cedar populations and provides three reasons of support. However, the professor states that scientists still do not know the real reason of declining in the yellow cedar populations and he refutes each of the author's reasons.
First, the reading claims that insect parasites, specifically the cedar bark bettle may be the real cause of damaging the trees populations. The profesor refutes this point by explaining that the healthy yellow cedar trees are highly resistant to insect infestation. These trees posses a chemical substances that are poisonous to insect. Therefore, these trees had already been damaged before the insect invasion. So, the cedar bark bettle is not the primary cause of killing yellow cedar trees.
Second, the article avers that the brown bears could destroy the yellow cedar tress because these bears may clw at the cedar in order to eat the tress bark. The professor, on the other hand, states that though brown bears caused some damage, they did not cause decline in the popluation. Because the bears are only live in the island, however, the decline of the trees popluations have happened along the coast and island areas. So, With or without the bears, yellow cedar tress have been destroyed.
Third, the reading posits that the gradual change of climate may be the cause of destruction because the cedar roots system are sensitive to cold climate. The professor opposes this point by saying that the author fails to mention that lower trees elevations are suffered much more than higher trees elevations. The professor emphaisez that if this idea is true, we should expect that higher tress elevations should suffer from frozen and not in the opposite way. So, he concludes that climate changes do not kill the yellow cedar trees.
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- TPO-23 - Integrated Writing Task Populations of the yellow cedar, a species of tree that is common in northwestern North America, have been steadily declining for more than a century now, since about 1880. Scientists have advanced several hypotheses expla 83
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 298, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'substance'?
Suggestion: substance
...estation. These trees posses a chemical substances that are poisonous to insect. Therefore...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 112, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'roots'' or 'root's'?
Suggestion: roots'; root's
... cause of destruction because the cedar roots system are sensitive to cold climate. T...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, second, so, still, therefore, third, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 13.8261648746 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 43.0788530466 51% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 52.1666666667 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1523.0 1977.66487455 77% => OK
No of words: 299.0 407.700716846 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09364548495 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 4.48103885553 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.34723524948 2.67179642975 88% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 212.727598566 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.511705685619 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 452.7 618.680645161 73% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.994623655914 0% => OK
Article: 11.0 3.08781362007 356% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.6003584229 73% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.539399107 48.9658058833 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.533333333 100.406767564 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9333333333 20.6045352989 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.26666666667 5.45110844103 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 11.8709677419 25% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.85842293907 233% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0292023791209 0.236089414692 12% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0121601559034 0.076458572812 16% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0155362586248 0.0737576698707 21% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0218834039521 0.150856017488 15% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0144279495296 0.0645574589148 22% => 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: 12.5 11.7677419355 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 58.1214874552 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 10.9000537634 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 86.8835125448 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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