yellow cedar
The reading passage introduces three proposals that try to explain the decline in the population of the yellow cedar trees. However, the speaker in the lecture casts doubt on the hypotheses presented in the article. He believes none of the arguments is adequate.
First and foremost, the author holds that the attacks of cedar bark beetles could be the major cause behind the dwindling in the number of trees. In contrast, the lecturer indicates that healthy cedar trees are much more resistant to insects than any other species because the bark and leaves are saturated by chemicals that are poisonous to parasites. Hence, beetles are only capable of attacking the trees that were damaged already. Thus, the invasion by parasites is not the fundamental reason that is endangering this plant.
Secondly, the writer contends that the brown bears claw at tree barks and eat them since it contains almost as much sugar as berries which are a staple of the brown bear's diet. As a result, this might have weakened enough trees and resulted in their death. Conversely, the lecturer brings up the fact that the decline is happening both on the mainland where there are bears and on the islands where there are not. Therefore, this process is occurring in the presence and absence of bears and they could not be responsible for it.
Lastly, the excerpt argues that climate change made the roots grow in the late winter rather than early spring, which led to partial freezing of the emerging roots. Consequently, the changing temperatures might have played a major role in undermining the trees' growth and further accelerated their killing . Nevertheless, the lecturer refutes this idea by saying that the trees on the lower warmer elevations are more affected than the trees on the higher colder levels. As a consequence, the gradual change in climate is not the root cause that is destroying the trees.
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...eves none of the arguments is adequate. First and foremost, the author holds tha...
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... reason that is endangering this plant. Secondly, the writer contends that the b...
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... played a major role in undermining the trees growth and further accelerated their ki...
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...th and further accelerated their killing . Nevertheless, the lecturer refutes this...
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... higher colder levels. As a consequence, the gradual change in climate is not the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, conversely, first, hence, however, lastly, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, in contrast, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1595.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 318.0 270.72406181 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01572327044 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22286093782 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51616563717 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.559748427673 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 479.7 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.3500754296 49.2860985944 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.333333333 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.93333333333 7.06452816374 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 4.45695364238 224% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.19123474665 0.272083759551 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0536858582717 0.0996497079465 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0448400428433 0.0662205650399 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103598268946 0.162205337803 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00847078292037 0.0443174109184 19% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.3589403974 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 63.6247240618 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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