TOEFL integrated writing: certifications

The reading passage and the professor's lecture both talk about the same topic whether the wood companies in the United States will receive the certification.Although the reading passage holds the view that wood companies in the United States will not receive the certification,the professor in the lecture refutes this view.

To begin with,despite the view in the reading passage that Americans do not pay attention to the ecocertification label,the professor believes that consumers in the US do not treat all the products the same.They distinguish the different products.So if a wood company cou...

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Score: 27 in 30
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
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No. of Different Words: 135 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.127 4.3
Average Word Length: 5.407 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.027 2.4
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No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
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Sentence Length SD: 8.101 7.5
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Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.188 0.07
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