In the 1950s Torreya Taxifolia a type of evergreen tree once very common in the state of Florida started to die out No one is sure exactly what caused the decline but chances are good that if nothing is done Torreya will soon become extinct Experts are co

Both the reading passage and lecture discuss about methods for saving Torreya taxifolia. The former argues three ways for protecting the tree. But the latter contradicts each of these points.

First of all, the author of the passage claims that reestablishing the tree in the same place can be a good solution. However, the lecturer contends that these cool areas affected by climate changes. Because of global warming, wet lands dried. Thus, the plant is unlikely to survive in the original climate.

Second of all, text asserts that moving the tree to completely new areas can help to preserve that. In contrast, the speaker counters that with giving an example. She asserts that the Black locust tree moved in a similar way. Then, it spread quickly and killed other plants which were near to extinct in that area.

Finally, the author brings his argument to a close by suggesting that keeping the tree in research centers can prevent extinction. Again, the speaker specifically addresses this point and states that it is not a good solution. In order to resist to diseases, a population should be large and diverse. Nonetheless, the research centers do not have enough capacity for the population. Hence, the trees will be vulnerable to the diseases.

To sum up, it is clear that both the writer and professor hold conflicting views about ways for saving the three.

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Average: 0.3 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 209, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a similar way" with adverb for "similar"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...sserts that the Black locust tree moved in a similar way. Then, it spread quickly and killed oth...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, hence, however, if, nonetheless, second, so, then, thus, in contrast, first of all, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1151.0 1373.03311258 84% => OK
No of words: 230.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00434782609 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89432290496 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51605431193 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.621739130435 0.540411800872 115% => OK
syllable_count: 335.7 419.366225166 80% => 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: 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: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 21.2450331126 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 24.920496421 49.2860985944 51% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 67.7058823529 110.228320801 61% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.5294117647 21.698381199 62% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.70588235294 7.06452816374 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
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: 0.0856184736853 0.272083759551 31% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0246470670002 0.0996497079465 25% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0284244289043 0.0662205650399 43% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.041387128989 0.162205337803 26% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0259622780799 0.0443174109184 59% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.9 13.3589403974 67% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.74 53.8541721854 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 11.0289183223 65% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.13 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.498013245 69% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.

Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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