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. In contrast, the professor says that the process of clearing and preparing land for the growth of palm trees, requires burning of vegetations. Therefore, it not only do not help the climate, but also by producing hazardous gases while burning has a negative impact on the environment.
Finally, the article says that palm oil production contributes to the reduction of poverty by providing more profits over the production of other crops for small-scale farmers. The professor opposes this point by explaining that small-scale farmers can't control palm tree lands for long. According to her, because of the high profits palm trees production have, large-scale farmers obtain most of the land for themselves. Consequently, most of the small-scale farmers get very little in return.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, consequently, finally, first, firstly, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, in contrast, 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 : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1559.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 299.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21404682274 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75793018436 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 145.348785872 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.535117056856 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 458.1 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.9567889196 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.357142857 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3571428571 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.07142857143 7.06452816374 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.266765888484 0.272083759551 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0942566407733 0.0996497079465 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.061247731474 0.0662205650399 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167419067698 0.162205337803 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0241608331305 0.0443174109184 55% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.01 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 63.6247240618 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18 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.