summarize the points made in the lecture , being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.
The reading states that the yellow-cedar decline in the northwest of America because of 3 reasons: attacking by insect parasites, brown bears who feeding from this tree, and progressive changes of weather. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author.
To begin with, the author noticed that maybe yellow cedar attacking by special insect and become destroyed but the lecturer rejects this idea and said that healthy yellow cedars are more resistant to insects than other trees types. For instance, the barks which live in the yellow cedar are had strong chemicals that are poisons to insects, so the health cedars not suffer from insects harms, therefore, we can say that insects damage sick trees that already harm before and will die anyway.
Secondly, the writer said that brown bears who feed from cedar damage this tree. However, the lecturer rebuts this idea and mentions that bears can harm some yellow cedars, but it’s not the main reason for the overall population decrease of these trees. Cedars are finding in Islands and the main lands of North America and there are no bears in islands but we see the cedars in islands are declined too, so for this issue bears cannot be responsible.
Finally, the author points that maybe progressive changes in weather decrease cedars populations, but the lecturer argues this and mentions that if freezing damage is responsible for the decline, we expect to see more trees dying in cold weather than warm. But the climate changes induce the roots to become more sensitive than used to be, so this is not the reason for killing them.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
anyway, but, finally, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, for instance, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1330.0 1373.03311258 97% => OK
No of words: 269.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94423791822 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0498419064 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.26910186222 2.5805825403 88% => OK
Unique words: 137.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.509293680297 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 398.7 419.366225166 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 29.0 21.2450331126 137% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 70.0789678034 49.2860985944 142% => OK
Chars per sentence: 147.777777778 110.228320801 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.8888888889 21.698381199 138% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.1111111111 7.06452816374 157% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0650747200115 0.272083759551 24% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0407748465825 0.0996497079465 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0528500797911 0.0662205650399 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0498877287307 0.162205337803 31% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0337662330882 0.0443174109184 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 13.3589403974 126% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 53.8541721854 94% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.498013245 130% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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