Both the reading and the listening discuss salvage logging, which is technique used to clear the dead trees after devastating forest fires. The author believes that there are three possible advantages for salvage logging for the forests and the economy. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. She is of the opinion that none of these advantages are correct.
To begin with, the author suggests that salvage logging is very useful in cleaning up the forests from the dead trees after the fires and providing healthy environment for the new trees to grow. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. She mentions that removing the dead trees, does not necessarily provide the right conditions for growth of the fresh trees. In addition, the natural decomposition of the burned wood might result in more favorable and suitable environment for the new plant growth. Thus, Salvage logging leads to a soil that lack the essential nutrients for new plants, which is not helping the forest to recover.
Secondly, the writer argues that removing the decayed wood after the fires, would help in decreasing the insects that can live in it and destroy the health trees like spurce bark beetle. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by asserting that not all the insects are harmful and the spruce bark beetles have lived in the forest over 100 years without causing any damages. Moreover, the salvage logging prevents other useful birds and insects that have long term contribution to the healthy environment of the forest. Hence, the effect of salvage logging is more harmful that the harmful insects themselves.
Finally, the author posits that salvage logging is economically beneficial by creating extra jobs for the locals. The lecturer, in contrast, casts doubt on this claim by explaining that this create temporarily jobs and the outsiders are most likely to do it. Since they are more trained and experienced than the local people. As a result, it is not economically effective as mentioned
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 544, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...t growth. Thus, Salvage logging leads to a soil that lack the essential nutrients...
^^
Line 5, column 455, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'termed'.
Suggestion: termed
...useful birds and insects that have long term contribution to the healthy environment...
^^^^
Line 7, column 210, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... explaining that this create temporarily jobs and the outsiders are most likely t...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, hence, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, in addition, in contrast, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1690.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 330.0 270.72406181 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12121212121 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26214759535 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52480076767 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 145.348785872 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533333333333 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 508.5 419.366225166 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.5676993595 49.2860985944 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.4117647059 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4117647059 21.698381199 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.29411764706 7.06452816374 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
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: 0.198589184747 0.272083759551 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0585138857625 0.0996497079465 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0600914201907 0.0662205650399 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116365222118 0.162205337803 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0554761576772 0.0443174109184 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 63.6247240618 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 544, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...t growth. Thus, Salvage logging leads to a soil that lack the essential nutrients...
^^
Line 5, column 455, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'termed'.
Suggestion: termed
...useful birds and insects that have long term contribution to the healthy environment...
^^^^
Line 7, column 210, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... explaining that this create temporarily jobs and the outsiders are most likely t...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, hence, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, in addition, in contrast, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1690.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 330.0 270.72406181 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12121212121 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26214759535 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52480076767 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 145.348785872 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533333333333 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 508.5 419.366225166 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.5676993595 49.2860985944 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.4117647059 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4117647059 21.698381199 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.29411764706 7.06452816374 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
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: 0.198589184747 0.272083759551 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0585138857625 0.0996497079465 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0600914201907 0.0662205650399 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116365222118 0.162205337803 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0554761576772 0.0443174109184 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 63.6247240618 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.