The reading and the lecture discuss the population declining of the yellow cedar –a species of tree in northwestern North America- which has been steady since more than a century ago. The author believes that there some hypotheses to explain this decline. The professor brings into question the claims made in the article. He considers that the causes of the declining are not still known and that the author’s hypotheses are not adequate.
First, the author comes up with the idea that one cause could be the cedar bark beetle, an insect parasite because it has been seen attacking yellow cedars. However, the lecturer argues that the yellow cedars are much more resistant than the other trees and also this kind of tree release a poisonous chemical which can sick the beetle, so the beetle could not have eaten lots of yellow trees because it would have died before ate the tree.
Second, the author states that another cause could be the brown bears which could have appreciated this kind of tree because of its sugar content and although it is not probable that this bear has destroyed trees, it could damage some with its feeding habits. The professor rebuts this argument by pointing out that the bears are from the Mainland, so the trees could not have been affected that much because they also were native of the ILand. Therefore, how those bears could have reduced the yellow cedar population if they did not live there.
Finally, the author contends that the climate changes and the partial freezing on cold winter nights that came out could decrease the cedar’s population because its roots systems were sensitive. The professor, on the other hand, posits that the yellow trees have decreased either in low elevation or high elevation. And indeed, this tree has died more in a lower elevation than in a higher. So, it is not accurate to say that the yellow cedar trees were reduced by the changes in the climate.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 257, 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.
...ome hypotheses to explain this decline. The professor brings into question the clai...
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Line 5, column 184, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...nt and although it is not probable that this bear has destroyed trees, it could dama...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, second, so, still, therefore, kind of, 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: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1613.0 1373.03311258 117% => OK
No of words: 332.0 270.72406181 123% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85843373494 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.2685907696 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.26983563191 2.5805825403 88% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506024096386 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 494.1 419.366225166 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.899682355 49.2860985944 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.076923077 110.228320801 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5384615385 21.698381199 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.38461538462 7.06452816374 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.429672096953 0.272083759551 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.151557926209 0.0996497079465 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.074229615741 0.0662205650399 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.269304913574 0.162205337803 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0349961219098 0.0443174109184 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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