The lecturer refutes the argument of the reading passage about the genetically modified trees. The reading passage offers three reasons to explain why genetically modified trees can be beneficial for the environment. However, the lecturer disagrees with each of these reasons.
First, the reading passage mentions that genetically modified trees can survive in more harsh conditions compared to natural trees. However, the lecturer disagrees with this opinion by pointing out that genetically modified trees are so uniform that they cannot handle environmental changes. None of them can adapt to the change while some natural trees can survive when there is a big change in the environment.
Second, the reading passage explains that genetically modified trees have economic benefits because they grow faster, give greater yields of food, or other products and are hardier. However, the lecturer claims that farmers need to pay for seeds to seed companies every time they want to plant a tree, which is mandatory and can be understood as a hidden cost. Farmers need to buy seeds from the company and they cannot collect seeds after genetically modified trees grow. This contradicts what the reading passage indicates.
Third, the reading passage mentions that genetically modified trees can prevent overexploitation. However, the lecturer points out that this is incorrect because genetically modified trees out-compete natural trees by taking away sunlight and nutrients from natural trees.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, second, so, third, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1269.0 1373.03311258 92% => OK
No of words: 228.0 270.72406181 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.56578947368 5.08290768461 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.88582923847 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69240736187 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 117.0 145.348785872 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.513157894737 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 387.9 419.366225166 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.9929722956 49.2860985944 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.75 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.66666666667 7.06452816374 52% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.176712117287 0.272083759551 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0806611017171 0.0996497079465 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0424859309516 0.0662205650399 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127484586869 0.162205337803 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0174967197152 0.0443174109184 39% => 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: 14.3 13.3589403974 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.8541721854 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.03 12.2367328918 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.63 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 44.0 63.6247240618 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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