The reading states that populations of the yellow cedar have been steadily declining for more than a century now and mentions that scientists have advanced several hypotheses explain this decline. However, the professor explains that we do not know the reason for this declining and the article provides inadequate reasons so he refutes each of the hypotheses.
First, The article argues that the yellow cedar decline may be caused by insect parasites, specifically the cedar bark beetle which attack cedar trees. Nevertheless, the professor refutes this point by stating that this kind of cedar has much more resistance rather than other types of cedars. He also explains that the bark of the yellow cedar contains poisonous nectar which damage insects.
Second, the reading claims that bears might be a cause of this declining because they claw at the cedars in order to eat the tree bark can destroy trees. The professor contends that it is true that bears damage cedars but it no so much to destroy the trees. He adds that there are some islands with no bear that cedar died too. as a result, the bears cannot responsible for this declining.
Third, the article avers that gradual changes in climate may be responsible for this. However, the lecture opposes this point by saying that if freezing damage the yellow cedars, those might die more in high elevation but there is some evidence that shows that declining more happened in lower elevation.
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- TOEFL T P O 21 - Integrated Writing Task 3
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 329, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: As
...lands with no bear that cedar died too. as a result, the bears cannot responsible ...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, so, third, kind of, as a result, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 17.0 30.3222958057 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1222.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 243.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02880658436 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94822203886 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.3991310727 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.551440329218 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 369.0 419.366225166 88% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 49.1141359194 49.2860985944 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.090909091 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0909090909 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.18181818182 7.06452816374 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => 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: 0.320311834795 0.272083759551 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.12529892379 0.0996497079465 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.161649001978 0.0662205650399 244% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.204529606886 0.162205337803 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.148854743754 0.0443174109184 336% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => 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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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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