TPO-14 - Integrated Writing Task Every year, forest fires and severe stormscause a great deal of damage to forests in the northwestern United States. One way of dealing with the aftermath of these disasters is called salvage logging, which is the practice

The main idea of both the passage and the lecture is about removing dead trees from the affected area which named as salvage logging. In this line of thought, the reading states that salvage logging has some advantages such as forests are choked with dead trees after a burning event, habitat of insects and economic benefits. The lecturer, on the other hand, casts doubt on all the three episodes of arguments mentioned in the passage, believing that none of these strategies are practical and lead to the real world. In the rest of the passage, a comparison between them is provided.

First of all, the reading and the listening materials talk about the dead trees are choking the forest. The author explains that salvage logging is caused by removing the dead plants and fresh trees have more space for growth. On the contrary, the lecturer believes that clean up the forest don’t provide good conditions for young trees for growth, she believes that the soil uses the nutrients which make with soil for growing plants. This directly contradicts what the passage indicates.

Second, both the text and the talk discuss habitat of the harmful insects. The author points out that dead. Therefore, the trees are a suitable habitat of the harmful insects which can damage the forest. The author elaborates that sum up dead plants can destroy these insects' settlement. However, the lecturer notes it is correct which these insects' existence of wood is a settlement for these insects, but destroying them can make some bad effects on the forest's ecosystem. The professor believes that the birds and other insects which are useful for forest ecosystem are eating them as food. This was another place where experience contradicted the theory.

Eventually, economic benefits are discussed by both the passage and the lecture. The author mentions that burning has a diverse impact not only on the wood-based company but also on the economy. However, the lecturer states that, in severally forest burning, residents have to employ some helicopter and truck for recovering lumber which is extremely expensive, also salvage logging make some fake jobs which waste money. This opinion directly contradicts the passage presented and making it infeasible.

Sum up, although the passage provides some reasons for the advantages of salvage logging, the lecture opposes about the effectiveness and possibility of those reasons.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 269, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'insects'' or 'insect's'?
Suggestion: insects'; insect's
...at sum up dead plants can destroy these insects settlement. However, the lecturer notes...
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Line 5, column 343, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'insects'' or 'insect's'?
Suggestion: insects'; insect's
...ecturer notes it is correct which these insects existence of wood is a settlement for t...
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Line 5, column 457, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'forests'' or 'forest's'?
Suggestion: forests'; forest's
...g them can make some bad effects on the forests ecosystem. The professor believes that ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, second, so, therefore, as for, such as, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2038.0 1373.03311258 148% => OK
No of words: 392.0 270.72406181 145% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19897959184 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44960558625 4.04702891845 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49019317674 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 145.348785872 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 626.4 419.366225166 149% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 15.0 8.23620309051 182% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.9923209021 49.2860985944 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.9 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.75 7.06452816374 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 4.45695364238 292% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.430354410621 0.272083759551 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.120187853461 0.0996497079465 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.100321031416 0.0662205650399 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.233386745858 0.162205337803 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.073206616348 0.0443174109184 165% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.88 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 63.6247240618 152% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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