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.
The reading and the lecture are both about desertification which is happening through climate change and the ways of stopping this phenomenon so as to stop this process. The author of the reading argues that by putting a device surrounding the trees named box-shaped we can stop them to turn them dry, but scientists believe that this device could not be successful for some reason. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article. She thinks that this device is not convincing and it is not useful to prevent trees from drying out.
First of all, the author claims that the process is expensive. He believes that countries cannot afford to buy devices for a huge number of trees. However, this point is challenged by the lecturer. She argues that the cost of making the device is high and it is not possible to use for millions of trees. Furthermore, she points out the device can be removed and re-used. Then it makes trees to stop growing.
Secondly, the author states that they could get help from local people who are living in some areas affected by desertification. He argues that they used to work for long days in harsh conditions, but it is difficult to motivate them. Nevertheless, this argument is rebutted by the lecturer. She suggests that installing and maintaining the devices could be used to collect water for other plants not trees. She elaborates it's by mentioning that it is possible for local people to help with this project.
Finally, the author mentions that bu putting the device the ability to collect water is limited. He is of the opinion that after growing a tree the device will be small and it is not able to survive. The lecturer, on the other hand, feels that the tree could be survive in a harsh condition once it grows out of the box. She puts forth the idea that the devices can help young trees to reach the sources of water and nutrient elements.
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Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
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...ould not be successful for some reason. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, then, as to, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.4613686534 191% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 22.412803532 196% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1563.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 337.0 270.72406181 124% => OK
Chars per words: 4.63798219585 5.08290768461 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28457229495 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49354227637 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 145.348785872 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.486646884273 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 470.7 419.366225166 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 3.25607064018 338% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.0879065722 49.2860985944 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.2631578947 110.228320801 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7368421053 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.68421052632 7.06452816374 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.128780547177 0.272083759551 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0428236915121 0.0996497079465 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0431233636909 0.0662205650399 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0845139404654 0.162205337803 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0478175202622 0.0443174109184 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.3 13.3589403974 70% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 71.14 53.8541721854 132% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.0289183223 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.34 12.2367328918 76% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.53 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
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: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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