The reading and the lecture are both about saving Toreyya taxifolia trees, which grows in the state of Florida. The author of the reading claims that there are three possible solutions to save the Torreya trees from extinction. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article. She thinks that these solutions are unlikely to work.
To begin with, the author claims that Torreya trees could be replanted in the same area where they grow. The reading notes that Northern Florida has well-suited cool and wet weather. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. She claims that global warming and human activities have changed Northern Florida’s weather by making it warmer and drier. Furthermore, she points out that it is unlikely that Northern Florida has the same conditions to grow the Torreya trees.
Secondly, the writer suggests that Torreya trees could be migrated into other regions. The article mentions that previously torreya seeds and saplings have been successfully planted in forests in further north. This argument is rebutted by the lecturer. She says that migrating a tree in a new area could endanger plants that already grow there. She elaborates on this by bringing up the point that this has happened before with black locust tree when the black locust trees were migrated into different region they spread rapidly that it killed many plants and trees.
Finally, the author mentions about growing the torreya trees in research center. He is of the opinion that growing the trees in a research center would give option of saving the trees and researching them more thoroughly. The lecturer, on the other hand, feels that planting the trees in a small research center is unlikely to save the trees. She notes that in order to resist the diseases, trees have to be in large and diverse population.
- Integrated TaskIn the 1950s Torreya taxifoha a type of evergreen tree once very common in the state of Florida started to die out No one is sure exactly what caused the decline but chances are good that if nothing is done Torreya will soon become ext
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 229, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...save the Torreya trees from extinction. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, well, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1541.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 306.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03594771242 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.37841377087 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.503267973856 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 448.2 419.366225166 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.4234148624 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.6111111111 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0 21.698381199 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.05555555556 7.06452816374 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.12785684468 0.272083759551 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.044619641303 0.0996497079465 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0360940990438 0.0662205650399 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0831389384038 0.162205337803 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0110166876783 0.0443174109184 25% => 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: 10.8 13.3589403974 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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