The reading states that there are several reasons that The yellow cedar has been steadily declining for more than a century. On the other hand, the lecturer finds all the reasons mentioned by the reading dubious and refutes them all by specific details.
First, the reading states that the yellow cedar was a decline by insect parasites, specifically the cedar bark beetle. On the contrary, the professor mentioned the fact that the yellow cedar is generally much more resilient than other species, and the bark beetle attacks the tree that is already damaged or is sick.
Furthermore, the author argues that bears sometimes claw at the cedars in other to eat the tree bark, which has high sugar content. Conversely, the lecturer brings up the idea that bears are not the reason for decline because, yellow cedar population exists in all the North America, and there are no bears exist.
Finally, the reading passage holds the view that climate change maybe be the reason for the decline. The patterns of seasonal, as well as day-to-day temperatures, have changed in northwestern America. In contrast, the speaker dismisses this issue due to the fact that much more trees die when temperatures changed suddenly, and this reason could not be reasonable only for the yellow cedars.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
conversely, finally, first, furthermore, if, may, so, well, in contrast, as well as, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 15.0 30.3222958057 49% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1070.0 1373.03311258 78% => OK
No of words: 213.0 270.72406181 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0234741784 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.82027741392 4.04702891845 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46952819539 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 120.0 145.348785872 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.56338028169 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 327.6 419.366225166 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.0075437912 49.2860985944 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.888888889 110.228320801 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6666666667 21.698381199 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.2222222222 7.06452816374 187% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.26339400012 0.272083759551 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111992777355 0.0996497079465 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.088918229428 0.0662205650399 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15269108272 0.162205337803 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0154871212256 0.0443174109184 35% => 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: 14.0 13.3589403974 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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