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 ask | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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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 passage provides some information regarding palm oil one of which is its radical effect on industry and landscape of countries. However, the writer states several reasons to support the expansion of Palm oil production the speaker finds its side effects outweigh them and refutes them.
First and foremost, the article mentions that Palm oil farming leads to preserving forests in the long term since it requires less land to be deforested. The professor, on the other hand, points out that palm oil usage is increasing dramatically not only in food but in cosmetic production. Consequently, to keep up with the large demand for palm oil more forests need to be cut out to provide more land for planting palm trees. As a result, it causes more deforestation.
Secondly, the reading claims that palm oil is used to produce biodiesel for vehicle engines that end up emitting less CO2, hence fighting back against climate change. Conversely, the lecture contents that the process of producing biodiesel from Palm oil involves rising CO2 emission because when land is cleared of plants they are going to be burnt which conveys producing CO2. Therefore, its effect on climate change is not significant.
Last but not least, the writer asserts that palm oil production contributes to a reduction in poverty owing to the fact that 50% - 70% of fields are cleared out by local low-income families. Whereas, the speaker sheds light on the factual point that low-income families do not control the fields for a long time, and after a while the the big companies obtain the palm farms and the profit mostly goes in their pocket. Thereby, it does not chang the poverty in local communities.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 331, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...elds for a long time, and after a while the the big companies obtain the palm farms and...
^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 331, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...elds for a long time, and after a while the the big companies obtain the palm farms and...
^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, conversely, first, hence, however, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, therefore, whereas, while, as a result, 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 : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1405.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 282.0 270.72406181 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98226950355 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09790868904 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61880608548 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.595744680851 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 418.5 419.366225166 100% => 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: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.8345552166 49.2860985944 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.083333333 110.228320801 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5 21.698381199 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.3333333333 7.06452816374 175% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
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: 0.32444985712 0.272083759551 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111156162736 0.0996497079465 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0693063810302 0.0662205650399 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.185293961634 0.162205337803 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0515842338154 0.0443174109184 116% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.9 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.98 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 90 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27 Out of 30
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, conversely, first, hence, however, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, therefore, whereas, while, as a result, on the other hand

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