Palm oil, a liquid produced by palm trees and used for cooking and other purposes, has become very popular in recent years. As a result, the palm oil industry has had a dramatic impact on the economies and landscapes of countries in which it operates. When asked to make a recommendation about whether expanding palm oil production even more would be good or bad for the environment and the economy, many experts have stated that palm oil production has several positive effects and should be expanded.
First, the experts point out that palm tree farming helps preserve the world’s forests. Palm trees have a very high oil yield – far higher than that of other crops. For this reason, farming palm trees requires less land than farming other crops to produce the same economic value. Since palm tree farms require relatively little land (compared with many other crops), palm tree plantations require the clearing of smaller areas of forest than many other crops would. In other words, palm tree farms cause less deforestation and therefore have a lesser negative impact on the environment than other types of crops.
Second, palm oil is sometimes used to produce biodiesel, a fuel for motor vehicles. Using biodiesel in vehicle engines create fewer carbon emissions than using traditional fossil fuels does. Carbon emissions are known to contribute to climate change. Biodiesel from palm oil, when used as an alternative to fossil fuels, can help reduce this effect.
Third, palm oil production helps reduce poverty among small-scale farmers. About 50 percent to 70 percent of land used for farming in palm-oil-producing countries is actually cleared by small-scale, low-income family farmers. Growing palm trees is usually more profitable for such farmers than growing other crops, and it has in many cases helped improve the farmers’ standard of living.
The article states that growing palm trees for different purposes is advantageous for many reasons and recommends expanding their production and introduces three reasons for its point. However, the professor explains that expanding palm oil production can have negative impacts and is not recommended.
First, the author claims that due to palms tree's high yield of palm oil the farmers would require less land for the same amount of oil from other crops, so the deforestation would be lessened. The professor argues against this point stating that palm oil has become very desirable and the demand for it has risen, therefore, more forested areas are cleared to keep up with the demands. For example, in one country 7000 square meters of forested land is cleared every minute.
Second, the passage posits that using biodiesel produced from palm oil instead of fossil fuels can help in lessening pollution. But the professor renounces this notion explaining that even though biodiesel produces less emmisions the byproduct of raising palm trees like burning other vegetation to ready the land for farming is high.
Third, the reading claims that farming palm trees can help reduce poverty amongst farmers due to its profitability. Nevertheless, the professor explains that in the long run the farmers don't control the lands and large companies buy these farms so they can monoplise the profits and often times the farmers gain a meager amount in exchange.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 186, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, therefore, third, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 19.0 30.3222958057 63% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1224.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 235.0 270.72406181 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.2085106383 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91531732006 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51897641732 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.6 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 358.2 419.366225166 85% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 46.0292445954 49.2860985944 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.0 110.228320801 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1111111111 21.698381199 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.88888888889 7.06452816374 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.298733949435 0.272083759551 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.128477027919 0.0996497079465 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0656041636627 0.0662205650399 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.180427538171 0.162205337803 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0779535251465 0.0443174109184 176% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 13.3589403974 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.16 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => 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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