The reading passage and the lecture are both about whether palm oil production benefit the environment and economy. While the author of the article argues that according to scientists, palm oil production has several benefits and should be developed, the lecturer refutes the claims mentioned in the article. Her position is that this approach has more negative effects than positive.
Firstly, the reading claims that due to the high oil yields of palm trees, less land is being used in palm oil production accordingly, less forest areas are being cleaned for their plantations. The professor casts doubt on this point by saying that since the palm oil is a desirable product in making food and cosmetics, the demand for it has grown in recent years. She states to keep up with this demand, farmers clear more areas. As a result, this high clearing of areas has increased the deforestation rate worldwide.
Secondly, the article posits that palm oil can be used in the production of biodiesels, and substitute the traditional fuels that caused higher carbon emissions.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...s more negative effects than positive. Firstly, the reading claims that due to ...
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Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ased the deforestation rate worldwide. Secondly, the article posits that palm o...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, first, firstly, second, secondly, so, while, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 18.0 30.3222958057 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 898.0 1373.03311258 65% => OK
No of words: 176.0 270.72406181 65% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10227272727 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.64232057368 4.04702891845 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6405726589 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 108.0 145.348785872 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.613636363636 0.540411800872 114% => OK
syllable_count: 264.6 419.366225166 63% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
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: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => 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: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.5530019272 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.25 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.625 7.06452816374 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More 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: 0.2297627814 0.272083759551 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0963867144354 0.0996497079465 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0727887256493 0.0662205650399 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157365400707 0.162205337803 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0309775156889 0.0443174109184 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.3589403974 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.39 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 63.6247240618 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
Read sample essays from ETS:
http://www.testbig.com/users/toeflwritingmaster
Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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Note: 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...s more negative effects than positive. Firstly, the reading claims that due to ...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ased the deforestation rate worldwide. Secondly, the article posits that palm o...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, first, firstly, second, secondly, so, while, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 18.0 30.3222958057 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 898.0 1373.03311258 65% => OK
No of words: 176.0 270.72406181 65% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10227272727 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.64232057368 4.04702891845 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6405726589 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 108.0 145.348785872 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.613636363636 0.540411800872 114% => OK
syllable_count: 264.6 419.366225166 63% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
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: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => 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: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.5530019272 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.25 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.625 7.06452816374 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More 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: 0.2297627814 0.272083759551 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0963867144354 0.0996497079465 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0727887256493 0.0662205650399 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157365400707 0.162205337803 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0309775156889 0.0443174109184 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.3589403974 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.39 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 63.6247240618 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
Read sample essays from ETS:
http://www.testbig.com/users/toeflwritingmaster
Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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Note: 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.