removes the remains of dead trees and makes room for fresh growth immediately, which i s likely to help forest areas recover from the disaster. Also, dead trees do more than just take up space. Decaying wood is a highly suitable habitat for insects such as the spruce bark beetle, which in large numbers can damage live, healthy spruce trees. So by removing rotting wood, salvage logging helps minimize the dangers of insect infestation, thus contributing to the health of the forest. Third and last, salvage logging has economic benefits. Many industries depend upon the forests for their production, and because of this a fire can have a very harmful effect on the economy. Often, however, the trees that have been damaged by natural disasters still can provide much wood that is usable by industries. Furthermore, salvage logging requires more workers than traditional logging operations do, and so it helps create additional jobs for local residents.
The reading excerpt states that there several reasons why salvage logging is beneficial both to a damaged forest and to the economy, the author provides three reasons for support. However, the lecture's audio claims that there are a lot of problems with the author theories and she refutes each of them by stating that the cause of these advantages is not obvious.
First, the article avers that the salvage logging removes the remains of the dead trees after the fire and the disaster and makes room for fresh growth immediately. In contrast, the professor opposes this idea by saying that the cleanup process does not necessarily create the right condition for tree growth, and it will not allow for more future growth of trees because the soil might lack the nutrients for growing. So, this idea may lead to disadvantages rather then advantages.
Second, the passage posits that help minimizing the dangers of spruce bark beetle infestation, thus contributing to the health of the forest by removing the trees that are suitable habitat for them. In contrary, the speaker argues this point by stating that these insects are not harmful because they lived for hundred years without any dangerous effects, in addition, these trees are also shelters for other animals like birds, thus, the slogging process will be more harmful to the forest than the insects. Thus, this theory contradicts what the professor explained.
Third, the excerpt mentions that this process has economic benefits as many industries depend upon the forest for their production, moreover, it helps to create additional jobs for local residents. On the other hand, the lecturer counteracts this outlook and says that the economic benefit is small because saving the decayed trees must be done by helicopters and large vehicles thus it is more expensive. Furthermore, the jobs offered will hire workers from outside because they are more experts than the local residents. Consequently, this point of view is definitely wrong.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 194, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'lectures'' or 'lecture's'?
Suggestion: lectures'; lecture's
...three reasons for support. However, the lectures audio claims that there are a lot of pr...
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Line 3, column 468, Rule ID: RATHER_THEN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'than'? 'than' is used for comparisons, 'then' is an expression of time.
Suggestion: than
...s idea may lead to disadvantages rather then advantages. Second, the passage pos...
^^^^
Line 5, column 39, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[5]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to minimize' or 'minimize'.
Suggestion: to minimize; minimize
... Second, the passage posits that help minimizing the dangers of spruce bark beetle infes...
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Line 5, column 313, Rule ID: NODT_DOZEN[1]
Message: Use simply: 'a hundred'.
Suggestion: a hundred
... are not harmful because they lived for hundred years without any dangerous effects, in...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, furthermore, however, look, may, moreover, second, so, then, third, thus, in addition, in contrast, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1680.0 1373.03311258 122% => OK
No of words: 325.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16923076923 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24591054749 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48274709467 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 145.348785872 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.575384615385 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 502.2 419.366225166 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 76.0826944113 49.2860985944 154% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.0 110.228320801 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.0833333333 21.698381199 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.4166666667 7.06452816374 176% => 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 : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.298727250417 0.272083759551 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0963149317116 0.0996497079465 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0968133545682 0.0662205650399 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16497640528 0.162205337803 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0944892356557 0.0443174109184 213% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 13.3589403974 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 53.8541721854 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 11.0289183223 114% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.2 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 63.6247240618 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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