TPO-14 - Integrated Writing Task Every year, forest fires and severe stormscause a great deal of damage to forests in the northwestern United States. One way of dealing with the aftermath of these disasters is called salvage logging, which is the practice
The reading and the lecture are both about the pros and cons of salvage logging in the environment. The author believes that salvage logging is beneficial to forest and the economy. However, the lecturer casts doubts about the claims made in the article and refutes all the theories presented in the reading passage.
First of all, the author points out that if forest fire occurs, forest becomes congested with dead trees, thus, this should be removed in order to sustain the environment. The author mentions that Salvage logging removes the dead trees and help to grow new ones, hence help the forest to be alive again. The point is challenged by the lecturer. He says that salvaging forest may took a while to recover to its lush environment. Furthermore, he argues that it is not beneficial for the trees, hence, there are few nutrients available for growth with this process.
Secondly, the author contends that decaying wood is beneficial for insects habitat like spruce bark beetle, thus, when its population is enormous it can damage healthy spruce trees. The article notes that by removing rotted wood it can lessen insects infestation, hence, making the forest healthy. The lecturer rebuts this argument. He suggests that rotting wood does not contribute to the damage of the forest. Evidence reveals that Alaskan forest that is 100 years old has no damages and dead trees. He elaborates on this by mentioning that long term salvaging has more harm to the environment than infestation of the insects.
Finally, the author states that it has more economical benefit. The author implies savaging logging creates more job on the community and in local residents. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that the economy in salvaging forest is short lived. Moreover, He puts forth the idea that in order to transport lumber they will need special means of transporting it such as use of helicopter and ships. He also added that jobs are only temporary to workers and the employees must have experience and skills for the position, but employer opt to outsource their staff than get it locally.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... decaying wood is beneficial for insects habitat like spruce bark beetle, thus, w...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, while, such as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 22.412803532 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1757.0 1373.03311258 128% => OK
No of words: 352.0 270.72406181 130% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99147727273 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33147354134 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49337804554 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 145.348785872 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.553977272727 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 532.8 419.366225166 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
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: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.6976096822 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.4736842105 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5263157895 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.89473684211 7.06452816374 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => 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: 0.448774265947 0.272083759551 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.123216325573 0.0996497079465 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0822251972481 0.0662205650399 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.248173598224 0.162205337803 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0927692741845 0.0443174109184 209% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 63.6247240618 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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