The reading and the lecture discuss the benefits of planting genetically modification trees from different perspectives. The article believes that modified trees provides many advantages. The lecture casts doubt on the claims made in the article. He says that none of those ideas are convincing.
First of all, the author of the reading points out that the genetically modified trees are able to survive than natural trees. This point is challenged by the lecture. He restates the fact that because natural trees are diverse, so they can resist to climate changes. Meanwhile, modified trees are uniform, therefore, when the climate changes or insects attack, they tend to be destroyed totally.
Secondly, the author of the reading contends that genetically modified trees promise to bring economic benefits. It is stated that modified trees grow rapidly and give greater yield of fruit. The lecture rebuts this point by saying that people can use the seeds of natural trees to grow them annually. However, the modified trees need to be planted every year and people cannot collect their seeds to replant them. Therefore, it costs a lot of money each year.
Finally, the author of the reading states that the use of genetically modified trees can a prevent overexploitation of wild trees. The lecture on the other hand, opposes this point by stating that these trees will cause damage to the other wild trees because they compete for the resources like sunlight and water along with the natural trees.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 189, 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.
...odified trees provides many advantages. The lecture casts doubt on the claims made ...
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Line 4, column 90, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...e use of genetically modified trees can a prevent overexploitation of wild trees. The lec...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, first of all, 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: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1262.0 1373.03311258 92% => OK
No of words: 246.0 270.72406181 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13008130081 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96035189615 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5101683618 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 145.348785872 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.536585365854 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 385.2 419.366225166 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.5030522556 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.1333333333 110.228320801 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.4 21.698381199 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06452816374 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
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: 0.479163780288 0.272083759551 176% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.163648431275 0.0996497079465 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110225696064 0.0662205650399 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.301551992547 0.162205337803 186% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0636073825623 0.0443174109184 144% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.83 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 63.6247240618 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.