The reading specifies that there are three hypotheses explaining the decline of the yellow cedar population in northwestern North America. However, the lecture casts doubt on these hypotheses and brings about three specific reasons to refute the hypotheses mentioned in the reading passage.
First, based on the first hypothesis, a kind of insect parasite named cedar bark beetle may cause the reduction in the population of the yellow cedar because the beetle larvae eat the tree’s wood. On the other hand, the lecture asserts that the yellow cedar has a protective sac, which is poisonous to the beetle. If the larvae eat the wood, they eat the sac and dies. So, beetle larvae cannot endanger the population of the yellow cedar.
Second, based on the second hypothesis, since brown bears eat the trees’ bark, their aggressive eating habit may lead to decrease in population of the yellow cedars. In contrast, the professor states that the reduction of the population happens in islands as well as main lands in northwestern America. So, had the aggressive eating habit of bears been the reason for the population's reduction, the decrease in the population would not have happened in islands since brown beers do not exist in the islands.
Third, based on the third hypothesis, the population's decrease may result from climate change since yellow cedar trees start growing in late winter instead of the early spring. However, the professor asserts that had freezing been the reason for the reduction of population, the yellow cedar population would have decreased more in the higher elevations, but the population of cedars reduces more in lower elevations, which shows that the yellow cedar is resistant to freezing.
- TPO-29 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? To improve the quality of education, universities should spend money on salaries university professors. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 76
- TPO-43 - Integrated Writing Task Agnostids were a group of marine animals that became extinct about 450 million years ago. Agnostid fossils can be found in rocks in many areas around the world. From the fossil remains, we know that agnostids were primitiv 73
- You have long been friends with someone If they do something that you don t like should you still be friends with him or her 35
- TPO-18 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Students are more influenced by their teachers than by their friends. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 66
- At some universities, students take part in making decisions about the issues that affect daily life of everyone on campus such as how many hours the libraries should be open each day or what kinds of food should be served in the cafeteria. But at some un 65
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 378, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'populations'' or 'population's'?
Suggestion: populations'; population's
... habit of bears been the reason for the populations reduction, the decrease in the populati...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 514, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rown beers do not exist in the islands. Third, based on the third hypothesis, th...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, second, so, third, well, in contrast, kind of, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 22.412803532 36% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 5.01324503311 259% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1460.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 280.0 270.72406181 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21428571429 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09062348924 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62572633294 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 145.348785872 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.482142857143 0.540411800872 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 443.7 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.654964719 49.2860985944 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.727272727 110.228320801 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4545454545 21.698381199 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.63636363636 7.06452816374 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.383022719261 0.272083759551 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.155371236377 0.0996497079465 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0801881519914 0.0662205650399 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.22876648382 0.162205337803 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0662633411392 0.0443174109184 150% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
---------------------
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.