In this set of materials, the reading passage states that populations of the yellow cedar in northwestern North America is declining and explains several hypotheses as possible reasons. However, the lecturer finds all the ideas skeptical and emphasizes that none of them is adequate and provides some evidence to refute them all.
First of all, the author of the passage claims that this decline may be caused by insect parasites. In contrast, the lecturer argues that healthy cedars are resistant to the cedar bark beetles because they are saturated with some chemical which are poisonous for bark beetles. Actually, those trees which were infected, were already damaged and lost their ability to protect themselves and would die anyway. So, the cedar bark beetle is not responsible.
Furthermore, it is mentioned in the reading passage that brown bears claw at the cedars in order to eat the tree bark, which has a high sugar content. On the contrary, the lecturer contends that bears are not in islands so the rate of death should be less but it is equal with other parts. Hence, we cannot consider bears as a possible reason.
Finally, the reading passage asserts that gradual changes of climate may be to blame. Conversely, the lecturer believes that cold weather is in higher elevations so we expect that the rate of death be more in these part but trees in lower elevations were more vulnerable. In fact, freezing weather is not what killing the yellow cedar trees.
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Essay evaluation report
the reading passage states that populations of the yellow cedar in northwestern North America is declining
the reading passage states that the populations of the yellow cedar in northwestern North America is declining
with some chemical which are poisonous
with some chemicals which are poisonous
Sentence: In fact, freezing weather is not what killing the yellow cedar trees.
Description: A WH-determiner is not usually followed by a verb, present participle or gerund
Suggestion: Refer to what and killing
flaws:
No. of Grammatical Errors: 3 2
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 20 in 30
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 3 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 12
No. of Words: 248 250
No. of Characters: 1196 1200
No. of Different Words: 141 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.968 4.2
Average Word Length: 4.823 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.391 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 86 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 68 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 38 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 19 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.667 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.983 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.917 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.34 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.582 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.092 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4
Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'anyway', 'but', 'conversely', 'finally', 'first', 'furthermore', 'hence', 'however', 'may', 'so', 'in contrast', 'in fact', 'first of all', 'on the contrary']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.250909090909 0.261695866417 96% => OK
Verbs: 0.163636363636 0.158904122519 103% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0836363636364 0.0723426182421 116% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0545454545455 0.0435111971325 125% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0327272727273 0.0277247811725 118% => OK
Prepositions: 0.134545454545 0.128828473217 104% => OK
Participles: 0.0327272727273 0.0370669169778 88% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.49248349752 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0181818181818 0.0208969081088 87% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.101818181818 0.128158765124 79% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0181818181818 0.0158828679856 114% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0181818181818 0.0114777025283 158% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1484.0 1645.83664459 90% => OK
No of words: 248.0 271.125827815 91% => OK
Chars per words: 5.98387096774 6.08160592843 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96837696647 4.04852973271 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.362903225806 0.374372842146 97% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.282258064516 0.287516216867 98% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.173387096774 0.187439937562 93% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0927419354839 0.113142543107 82% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49248349752 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.584677419355 0.539623497131 108% => OK
Word variations: 59.3530936335 53.8517498576 110% => OK
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0529801325 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.6666666667 21.7502111507 95% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.9467296996 49.3711431718 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.666666667 132.220823453 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6666666667 21.7502111507 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.25 0.878197800319 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.39072847682 0% => OK
Readability: 48.8924731183 50.5018328374 97% => OK
Elegance: 1.66666666667 1.90840788429 87% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.693031706037 0.549887131256 126% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0981149655998 0.142949733639 69% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0716270631868 0.0787303798458 91% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.561767546438 0.631733273073 89% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.179653233036 0.139662658121 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.31381415289 0.266732575781 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.136881706776 0.103435571967 132% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.366704776522 0.414875509568 88% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0304290518331 0.0530846634433 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.497776328421 0.40443939384 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0260602462059 0.0528353158467 49% => OK
Task Achievement:
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: 4.0 4.26048565121 94% => OK
Positive topic words: 1.0 3.49668874172 29% => More positive topic words wanted.
Negative topic words: 7.0 3.62251655629 193% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 3.1766004415 94% => OK
Total topic words: 11.0 10.2958057395 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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