In the United States, it had been common practice since the late 1960s not to suppress natural forest fires. The “let it burn” policy assumed that forest fires would burn themselves out quickly, without causing much damage. However, in the summer of 1988, forest fires in Yellowstone, the most famous national park in the country, burned for more than two months and spread over a huge area, encompassing more than 800,000 acres. Because of the large scale of the damage, many people called for replacing the “let it burn” policy with a policy of extinguishing forest fires as soon as they appeared. Three kinds of damage caused by the “let it burn” policy were emphasized by critics of the policy.
First, Yellowstone fires caused tremendous damage to the park’s trees and other vegetation. When the fires finally died out, nearly one third of Yellowstone’s land had been scorched. Trees were charred and blackened from flames and smoke. Smaller plants were entirely incinerated. What had been a national treasure now seemed like a devastated wasteland.
Second, the park wildlife was affected as well. Large animals like deer and elk were seen fleeing the fire. Many smaller species were probably unable to escape. There was also concern that the destruction of habitats and the disruption of food chains would make it impossible for the animals that survived the fire to return.,
Third, the fires compromised the value of the park as a tourist attraction, which in turn had negative consequences for the local economy. With several thousand acres of the park engulfed in flames, the tourist season was cut short, and a large number of visitors decided to stay away. Of course, local businesses that depended on park visitors suffered as a result.
Both the reading and the lecture discuss if the "let it burn" policy should be replaced. The reading implies that we should extinguish forest fires as soon as they appeared. On the contrary, the professor holds an opposite idea.
First of all, the reading passage mentions that Yellowstone fires caused tremendous damage to the tree and vegetation. However, according to the lecturer, although a lot of trees and vegetation were burned down, it also created an opportunity for some plants. New kind of vegetation grow and colonized the forest after the fire.
Secondly, the passage also discusses about the decline of large animal. Yet, the lecturer severely challenges the theory again because their population recovered soon after. Furthermore, the fire created an ideal habitat for small animals like rabbit. With the growth of small animals, their predators came and made the food chain stronger than before.
Finally, the reading indicates that due to the fire, the number of visitors decreased and had negative consequences for the local economy. The lecturer opposes the evidence revealed in the reading passage. To elaborate, the speaker believes that the fire in 1988 is a very unusual case. it doesn’t happen annually, and the tourists have come back since the next year.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, second, secondly, so, kind of, first of all, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 10.4613686534 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 12.0772626932 33% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1115.0 1373.03311258 81% => OK
No of words: 207.0 270.72406181 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.38647342995 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.79308509922 4.04702891845 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60891929619 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 137.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.661835748792 0.540411800872 122% => OK
syllable_count: 346.5 419.366225166 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 25.2012309385 49.2860985944 51% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 79.6428571429 110.228320801 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.7857142857 21.698381199 68% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.71428571429 7.06452816374 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.166309563742 0.272083759551 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0495820841698 0.0996497079465 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0572187892495 0.0662205650399 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0982322087198 0.162205337803 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0622315481518 0.0443174109184 140% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 48.81 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.39 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.37 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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