Essay topics: Essay topics: 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.
The reading asserts that the "let it burn" policy is not a good idea, and there are some flaws for it. The lecturer, however, finds the idea dubious and casts doubt on the reasons proposed by the reading passage.
To start with, the author of the passage argues that the huge fire which happened in Yellowstone national park in 1988, caused a myriad of problems to vegetation and trees. After the fire put down, approximately one-third of the land had been destroyed. Trees were in bad condition because of the smoke. Conversely, the speaker brings up the idea that natural forest fire is not completely harmful. She believes that after the fire, there was an opportunity for different new plants to grow in the area. Additionally, the seeds of some species were germinated due to the heat they could use from.
Furthermore, the reading passage holds the view that smaller trees were damaged entirely, small animals could not scape from the fire and were trapped there. On the contrast, the lecturer underlines the fact that after fire in 1988, the wild life recovered soon again. Small trees grew in the area and attracted small animals like rabbit and hare. As a result, some preditors came back for hunting them and the chain got stronger.
Finally, it is stated in the reading that the park's value for tourist attraction was compromised and the local economy suffered from negative consequences. In contrast, the speaker dismisses this issue due to the fact that this kind of fires, do not happent every year, there are some factors preventing the fire like rainfalls. After 1988, tourist was interested in visiting the area. They came back the year after fire, and the year after that too.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
conversely, finally, furthermore, however, if, so, third, in contrast, kind of, as a result, to start with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1424.0 1373.03311258 104% => OK
No of words: 290.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.91034482759 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44880033236 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558620689655 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 434.7 419.366225166 104% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.4559406984 49.2860985944 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.0 110.228320801 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.125 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.625 7.06452816374 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.103068864592 0.272083759551 38% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0330378207509 0.0996497079465 33% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0503832183467 0.0662205650399 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0663210620191 0.162205337803 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0445276441631 0.0443174109184 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.3589403974 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.9 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.29 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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