The passage makes a point on American wood companies would refuse to buy the eco-certification for several reasons. The professor, on the other hand, argued that it will likely that many of those companies, actually, do buy the eco-certificate, and he gives his own points of views.
Firstly, the author of the passage assumes consumer ignorance about eco-certificate, because advertising is the main attraction to buy the product for virtually every American consumers. The lecturer, however, states the abundance of eco-minded people who aware of protecting the environment would favor buying eco-certificated products since those companies are trustworthy.
Secondly, the reading passage makes an assertion on the prices of eco-certificated products to be higher than uncertificated ones, with together, American consumers' tendency to buying cheaper products, it is unlikely for companies to earn eco-certification. In contrast, the professor disproves the hypothesis that constructed in the passage by providing the results of a study on customer preference of choosing the same product from different companies. Since the study shows that if the difference in price between the two products is as small as 5%, the price is not an essential factor, indeed, value regards environment-friendly products.
Thirdly, according to the author, since American wood companies sell most of their products in the United States rather than abroad, where eco-certification is important, USA originated companies don't have to buy the eco-certificate to keep up with others. The professor, meanwhile, casts doubts on eco-minded American customers whose attention is drawn by international companies because of eco-certification. Therefore, American wood companies, without eco-certification, cannot profit from the market.
- TPO 14- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? People benefit more from traveling in their own country than from traveling to foreign countries.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 73
- TPO 18. Students are more influenced by their teachers than by their friends. Agree/ disagree? 83
- Some people say that the Internet provides people with a lot of valuable information. Others think access to so much information creates problems. Which do you agree with? 80
- TPO 10- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Playing computer games is a waste of time. Children should not be allowed to play them.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 90
- In twenty years there will be fewer cars in use than there are today
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 156, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'consumers'' or 'consumer's'?
Suggestion: consumers'; consumer's
...tificated ones, with together, American consumers tendency to buying cheaper products, it...
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Line 7, column 197, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... is important, USA originated companies dont have to buy the eco-certificate to keep...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, while, in contrast, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 1.0 7.30242825607 14% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 5.01324503311 279% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1557.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 264.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.89772727273 5.08290768461 116% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03089032464 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.62923662374 2.5805825403 141% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 145.348785872 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.594696969697 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 495.9 419.366225166 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.9 1.55342163355 122% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 49.8767480897 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 155.7 110.228320801 141% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.4 21.698381199 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.5 7.06452816374 177% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.33816685482 0.272083759551 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.15313880265 0.0996497079465 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0956768307515 0.0662205650399 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.218621903188 0.162205337803 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0547489679536 0.0443174109184 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.6 13.3589403974 147% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 19.71 53.8541721854 37% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 17.0 11.0289183223 154% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 17.24 12.2367328918 141% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.47 8.42419426049 112% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 10.7273730684 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 11.2008830022 152% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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