The reading and the lecture are both about Torreya taxifoha, which is a type of evergreen plant grow in Florida and started to diminish in the 1950s. The author of the reading believes that there are three ways to protect this tree from extinction. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article. She thinks that none of those ways can prevent the extinction of that plant.
First of all, the author points out that to reestablish Torreya in the same location in which it consistently grew for thousands of years. It is mentioned that the state of Florida was home for this tree because it has microclimate weather that a relatively small area has a different weather condition from the region which that area is part it. Microclimate area’s weather is wetter and cooler than other areas. This point is challenged by the lecturer. She says this small area weather is affected by the large area's weather. Furthermore, she argues global warming has its own effect on the Florida weather because day after day more area becomes drier.
Secondly, the author contends that to move the tree from its original place to a new place. The article notes that a place far from Florida in forests because of having cooler weather than other places in a process called assisted migration in which human help in moving the tree. The lecturer rebuts this argument. She suggests this method is also not working by providing one example when the black tree is moved to the north, it spread so fasts and became the cause of extinction of other plants. She elaborates on this by mentioning that assisted migrants can sometimes have a bad result on the hostile inhabitants.
Finally, the author states that it can be kept in the research center. The seeds and saplings can be brought from wild and preserved in a closed environment so it is easy to protect and research. The lecturer, on the hand, posits that doing so might cause some diseases to the plant because the same plant will not resist diseases for a long term in such a small area. She puts forth the idea that to prevent from disease large area or genetic diversity is needed, but trees can satisfy this condition in wild. In conclusion, the lecturer effectively casts doubt on all of the claims and theories presented in the reading.
- TPO-18 - Integrated Writing Task In the 1950s Torreya taxifoha, a type of evergreen tree once very common in the state of Florida, started to die out. No one is sure exactly what caused the decline, but chances are good that if nothing is done, Torreya wi 75
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 251, 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.
...s to protect this tree from extinction. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made...
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Line 4, column 567, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...the lecturer effectively casts doubt on all of the claims and theories presented in the re...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 22.412803532 165% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 54.0 30.3222958057 178% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1898.0 1373.03311258 138% => OK
No of words: 401.0 270.72406181 148% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.73316708229 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.04702891845 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44746290852 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 145.348785872 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.501246882793 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 576.9 419.366225166 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.7908546759 49.2860985944 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.9 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.05 21.698381199 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.65 7.06452816374 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.359094626764 0.272083759551 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0975862581482 0.0996497079465 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0711504981694 0.0662205650399 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.200988864378 0.162205337803 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0505090804637 0.0443174109184 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 53.8541721854 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.15 12.2367328918 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 63.6247240618 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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