In this set of materials, both the reading passage and the lecture deal with the decline of the number of the yellow cedar, which is a type of tree. Regarding this topic, the author asserts that there are three possible hypotheses to prove the decreasing of the yellow cedar. From the lecture, however, the lecturer contradicts the author’s point by saying that the three theories described in the passage are flawed and unconvincing.
First of all, according to the lecture, the theory that the cedar bark beetle plays a crucial role in the continuously reducing of the yellow cedar, is unreliable. The yellow cedar trees resistant from insects because they have powerful chemicals that are harmful to insects. Further, the beetle is able to damage the trees that are unhealthy, which will die without any influence of the beetle. This counters the author’s view point that the cedar bark beetle is one of the possible reason of the death of the many yellow trees.
Secondly, the lecturer goes on to say that he challenges the author’s claim that the brown bears, which usually diet the yellow tree bark, lead to the decline of the yellow tree. This is because if the main cause of the decline of the tree is the brown bears, it cannot explain that the number of the tree are dying in an island where there is no brown bear. It implies that the brown bear cannot play a vital role in the dying of the yellow cedar.
Lastly, the lecturer maintains that the climate changes cannot contribute to the decline of the yellow tree. It is less possible that trees are able to sustain in higher elevation where it is warm rather than lower elevation where it is warm. However, relatively more trees are dying in lower elevation. This rebuts the author’s argument that the yellow cedar trees are dying because the trees are not able to adapt the deviations of climate in northwestern North America.
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- Essay topics: 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 to explain this decline. 73
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'lastly', 'regarding', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'first of all']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.248021108179 0.261695866417 95% => OK
Verbs: 0.129287598945 0.158904122519 81% => OK
Adjectives: 0.089709762533 0.0723426182421 124% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0395778364116 0.0435111971325 91% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0184696569921 0.0277247811725 67% => OK
Prepositions: 0.126649076517 0.128828473217 98% => OK
Participles: 0.023746701847 0.0370669169778 64% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.47830068562 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Infinitives: 0.023746701847 0.0208969081088 114% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.160949868074 0.128158765124 126% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0105540897098 0.0158828679856 66% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0211081794195 0.0114777025283 184% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1915.0 1645.83664459 116% => OK
No of words: 330.0 271.125827815 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.80303030303 6.08160592843 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26214759535 4.04852973271 105% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.324242424242 0.374372842146 87% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.215151515152 0.287516216867 75% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.139393939394 0.187439937562 74% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0848484848485 0.113142543107 75% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47830068562 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 145.348785872 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.436363636364 0.539623497131 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 43.3876246287 53.8517498576 81% => OK
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0529801325 107% => OK
Sentence length: 23.5714285714 21.7502111507 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.8992719648 49.3711431718 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.785714286 132.220823453 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5714285714 21.7502111507 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.714285714286 0.878197800319 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.39072847682 0% => OK
Readability: 45.0865800866 50.5018328374 89% => OK
Elegance: 2.12676056338 1.90840788429 111% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.330033964827 0.549887131256 60% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.251025745771 0.142949733639 176% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.112693563436 0.0787303798458 143% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.699515934238 0.631733273073 111% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.152268008995 0.139662658121 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.185078572835 0.266732575781 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0653255435846 0.103435571967 63% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.650755382492 0.414875509568 157% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0509313596457 0.0530846634433 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.263396487404 0.40443939384 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0106441662761 0.0528353158467 20% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.26048565121 47% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 3.49668874172 143% => OK
Negative topic words: 7.0 3.62251655629 193% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 3.1766004415 63% => OK
Total topic words: 14.0 10.2958057395 136% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.