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Every year, forest fires and severe storms cause 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 of removing dead trees from affected areas and using the wood for lumber, plywood, and other wood products. There are several reasons why salvage logging is beneficial both to a damaged forest and to the economy.
First, after a devastating fire, forests are choked with dead trees. If the trees are not removed, they will take years to decompose; in the meantime, no new trees can grow in the cramped spaces. Salvage logging, however, removes the remains of dead trees and makes room for fresh growth immediately, which is 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 and lecturer are both about salvage logging which is the way to remove wood from the forest after the forest fire. The author of the reading feels that it is beneficial for the plant to grow very well and presents some reasons for holding the aspect. The lecturer challenged the claim made by the author. He is on the opinion that salvage logging helping for recover but actually it creates more serious long term damage.
To begin with, the author argues that trees will decompose in the forest if the wood is not removed. He claims that as a result tree will not able to grow. The specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. He mentions that rapidly removing the dead plant, the forest can experience a lack of nutrition. He also adds that It can decline the plant growth because decomposition of the plant provides other plants with a sufficient amount of nutrition.
Secondly, the author suggests that removing the damaged tree could protect the forest form insect which can take place in a large amount of forest. The lecturer rebuts this by mentioning that some insects like spruce bark beetle which lives in the forest for nearly 100 years and without any damage. He also claims that other birds, species live on the forest depending on the dead plant and removing them can harm those species.
Third, the author posits that salvage logging could produce a job vacancy which is really helpful for economic growth. He elaborates by mentioning that the damaged tree might be beneficial for the industry. In contrast, the lecturer position that this economic benefit is samll and not long-lasting. He additionally says the job is temporary and required training to the local resident which is expensive.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 264, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, if, really, second, secondly, so, third, well, in contrast, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1437.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 294.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88775510204 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14082457966 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40605811365 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520408163265 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 435.6 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.9743549583 49.2860985944 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.8125 110.228320801 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.375 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.6875 7.06452816374 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
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: 0.417323420548 0.272083759551 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.132305821757 0.0996497079465 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0974879809426 0.0662205650399 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.254983155752 0.162205337803 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0639410471277 0.0443174109184 144% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.3589403974 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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