TOEFL Integrated: Altruism:
Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, being sure to specifically explain how they cast doubt on points made in the reading
The article discusses about let it burn policy which was granted since 1960s by which the fire happened in forests was not interfered by people until it went out naturally. But because of the massive fire that went on in 1988 in Yellow stone, people started to criticize the policy because of some reasons mentioned in the text; however, the lecturer casts doubts on all reasons and provides concrete information to repudiate them.
First the author states that the fire has vastly obliterated the plants and trees. Moreover, the incident has caused environment to become uninhabitable for plants. In contrast the lecturer asserts that despite the fact that some specific species have been eradicated, a new habitat for other types of plants and trees is created. To illuminate this, he mentions the plants that need direct sun light to grow which now has the chance by removal of the sheds caused by trees.
Secondly, the reading declares that by the mass destruction of plants of the forest, there's going to be a flaw in the food chain of the species living in the forest. The professor, however, argues that like the points mentioned for plants, a new habitat has been created for animals different from the former residents of the jungle by the natural recovery process happened, which in this case was fire. To make it more clear, she gives the example of rabbits and claims that new food chains will emerge.
At last, the article discusses the problems that the destruction caused by this fire affects the tourism business in the region by reducing the number of visitors and consequently makes the economic conditions worse. Conversely, the professor underlines the fact that the incident will be a major problem if it happens frequently and also other elements like low levels of rainfall accompany this phenomenon. In addition, she mentions that the number of tourists has not declined since the fire incident in 1988, even the next year.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 169, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[2]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: contrast,
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Line 5, column 86, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: there's
...ss destruction of plants of the forest, theres going to be a flaw in the food chain of...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, conversely, first, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, in addition, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 30.3222958057 165% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1629.0 1373.03311258 119% => OK
No of words: 328.0 270.72406181 121% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96646341463 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49962631056 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 145.348785872 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545731707317 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 496.8 419.366225166 118% => 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: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => 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: 55.8218271726 49.2860985944 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.75 110.228320801 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.3333333333 21.698381199 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.41666666667 7.06452816374 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
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: 0.0573359634231 0.272083759551 21% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0181538195633 0.0996497079465 18% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0228511520411 0.0662205650399 35% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0328366902604 0.162205337803 20% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0150880659821 0.0443174109184 34% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.3589403974 117% => 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: 11.84 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 63.6247240618 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => 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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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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