The reading and the listening are about the drastic decline in the yellow cedar populations.The author believes that there are three possible explanations for that decline. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. He is of the opinion that none of these reasons are adequate.
To begin with, the author suggests that the beatles are the main cause of the decrease in the yellow cedar's population. In addition, the article mentions that the beetles attack the trees and the larvae feed on the wood, resulting in damage of the trees. The lecturer challenges this specific argument by asserting that the healthy yellow cedar trees are more resistant to the insects' infections than any other trees, because their bark contains powerful chemicals that are poisonous to insects. Thus, bettles can only attack the damaged trees. Based on that, beetles are not the fundamental cause of this decline.
Secondly, the writer argues that brown bears are responsible for the decline by their aggressive eating. In the article, it is mentioned that the yellow cedar trees are very rich in sugar which is essential for bears. The lecturer, however, rebuts this point by explaining that bears can not be the main cause for the overall population decline. Moreover, he mentions that the decline occurred all across northwestern North America including the mainland and islands. Since, there are no bears on the islands, bears can not be the cause of the decline.
Finally, the author posits that climatic change in the area caused the root system freezing then damaging the overall health of the tree. Therefore, the yellow cedar population diminished detrimentally. In contrast, the lecturer cast doubt on this claim by pointing out that In fact the elevation in climate can cause more tree damage than freezing can cause, thus freezing can not be the main reason for this decline.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, thus, in addition, in contrast, in fact, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1600.0 1373.03311258 117% => OK
No of words: 315.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07936507937 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57574397836 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.504761904762 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 481.5 419.366225166 115% => 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: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.9689898375 49.2860985944 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.0 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6875 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.125 7.06452816374 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 4.19205298013 215% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.202726451801 0.272083759551 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0649279405368 0.0996497079465 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0518787301289 0.0662205650399 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122657843707 0.162205337803 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.027387078172 0.0443174109184 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.3589403974 92% => 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: 12.18 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 63.6247240618 123% => 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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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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