Summarise the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubts on specific points made in the reading passage.
According to the reading passage, author stated three hypotheses to explain the decline in populations of yellow cedar, specially in northwestern North America, while in the listening section, lecturer mentioned some other competing theories, which contradict to passage's information.
In the reading section, three ideas are mentioned to answer to this question that "why yellow cedar populations have been steadily declining in northwestern North America?", and author stated three explanations. First, yellow cedar decline may be caused by insect parasites such as cedar dark beetle, because this beetle attack cedar trees. Second, brown bears sometimes claw at the cedars in order to eat the tree bark, which can be destructive. Finally, gradual changes of climate is responsible for the yellow cedar's decline, because changing climate is likely to suffer damage from partial freezing on cold winters.
However, in the listening section, speaker pointed out that passage's information was not adequate, so he argued other controversial theories. First, healthy yellow cedar is more resistant to beetle, because those trees are saturated to powerful chemicals, which kills harmful insects. Second, brown bears are not cause for the cedar populations decline, because cedar exists in both mainlands and islands, and in both regions cedar's populations are decreasing, while there are no bears in islands. Finally, more trees die in lower elevations rather than in higher elevations, which contradicts to the passage's arguments, and this reason is not whats killing them.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 264, Rule ID: TO_NON_BASE[1]
Message: The verb after "to" should be in the base form: 'passage'.
Suggestion: passage
...competing theories, which contradict to passages information. In the reading section, t...
^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 644, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: what's
...sages arguments, and this reason is not whats killing them.
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, may, second, so, while, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 22.412803532 36% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1346.0 1373.03311258 98% => OK
No of words: 237.0 270.72406181 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.67932489451 5.08290768461 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.92362132708 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79012406949 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.594936708861 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 406.8 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 0.0 8.23620309051 0% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 1.25165562914 479% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => 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: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 52.5211303744 49.2860985944 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 149.555555556 110.228320801 136% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3333333333 21.698381199 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.22222222222 7.06452816374 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.0675302078286 0.272083759551 25% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0318585987049 0.0996497079465 32% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0344152441054 0.0662205650399 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0565914894201 0.162205337803 35% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.025764976359 0.0443174109184 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.5 13.3589403974 138% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 53.8541721854 68% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.0289183223 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.96 12.2367328918 130% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.46 8.42419426049 112% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 10.7273730684 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => 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
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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