TPO-14 - Integrated Writing Task Every year, forest fires and severe stormscause a great deal of damage to forests in the northwestern United States. One way of dealing with the aftermath of these disasters is called salvage logging, which is the practice

The reading passage supports salvage logging and brings reasons for this idea and the lecturer refutes salvage logging in general.
First, the reading passage states that salvage logging is the practice of removing dead trees from forest that we will wait many years to decompensate, however the lecturer states that cleaning up the forest will decrease tree growth and not in favor of future generation.
Moreover, decaying wood increases insects which some of them are harmful to the trees.However the lecturer says that there is no question that woods will increase number of insects and birds but not all insects are harmful and some birds and other insects may be beneficial to plants.
Furthermore, in the reading it states that in case of fire, salvage logging is beneficial economically for the forest industries or industries that were accompanied to forest but the lecturer states that it never happened to be local workers but instead the professional workers came for salvage logging.

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Average: 6 (3 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 86, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: However
...h some of them are harmful to the trees.However the lecturer says that there is no ques...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 86, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...h some of them are harmful to the trees.However the lecturer says that there is no ques...
^^^^^^^

Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'first', 'furthermore', 'however', 'may', 'moreover', 'so', 'in general']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.288235294118 0.261695866417 110% => OK
Verbs: 0.158823529412 0.158904122519 100% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0823529411765 0.0723426182421 114% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0411764705882 0.0435111971325 95% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0235294117647 0.0277247811725 85% => OK
Prepositions: 0.117647058824 0.128828473217 91% => OK
Participles: 0.0294117647059 0.0370669169778 79% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.61520925945 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0294117647059 0.0208969081088 141% => OK
Particles: 0.00588235294118 0.00154638098197 380% => OK
Determiners: 0.1 0.128158765124 78% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0235294117647 0.0158828679856 148% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0117647058824 0.0114777025283 103% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 996.0 1645.83664459 61% => OK
No of words: 161.0 271.125827815 59% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.18633540373 6.08160592843 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.56210296601 4.04852973271 88% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.422360248447 0.374372842146 113% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.341614906832 0.287516216867 119% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.173913043478 0.187439937562 93% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0807453416149 0.113142543107 71% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61520925945 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 87.0 145.348785872 60% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.540372670807 0.539623497131 100% => OK
Word variations: 44.4432770501 53.8517498576 83% => OK
How many sentences: 4.0 13.0529801325 31% => More sentences wanted.
Sentence length: 40.25 21.7502111507 185% => Sentence lengths are too long.
Sentence length SD: 68.7949852824 49.3711431718 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 249.0 132.220823453 188% => Less chars per sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 40.25 21.7502111507 185% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 2.0 0.878197800319 228% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.39072847682 59% => OK
Readability: 74.4114906832 50.5018328374 147% => OK
Elegance: 1.94736842105 1.90840788429 102% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.633998193135 0.549887131256 115% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.222741612971 0.142949733639 156% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0327135893382 0.0787303798458 42% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 1.0 0.631733273073 158% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 1.24126707662e-16 0.139662658121 0% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.424922993714 0.266732575781 159% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.059987572313 0.103435571967 58% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.240201856733 0.414875509568 58% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.039398207173 0.0530846634433 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.424922993714 0.40443939384 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.059987572313 0.0528353158467 114% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.26048565121 0% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 3.0 3.49668874172 86% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 3.62251655629 28% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 0.0 3.1766004415 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 4.0 10.2958057395 39% => More topic words wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Minimum 200 words wanted.
Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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flaws:
No. of Words: 162 250 //more content wanted.

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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 17 in 30
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 4 12
No. of Words: 162 250
No. of Characters: 823 1200
No. of Different Words: 87 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.568 4.2
Average Word Length: 5.08 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.467 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 67 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 54 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 25 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 11 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 40.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.927 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 1 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.595 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.595 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.226 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4