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 of removing dead trees from affected areas and using the wood for lumber, plywood,and other wood products. There are several reasons why salvage logging is beneficial both to a damaged forest and to the economy.
First, after a devastating fire, forests are choked with dead trees. If the trees are not removed, they will take years to decompose; in the meantime, no new trees can grow in the cramped spaces. Salvage logging, however, removes the remains of dead trees and makes room for fresh growth immediately, which i s likely to help forest areas recover from the disaster. Also, dead trees do more than the take up space. Decaying wood is a highly suitable habitat for insects such as the spruce bark beetle, which in large numbers can damage live, healthy spruce trees. So by removing rotting wood, salvage logging helps minimize the dangers of insect infestation, thus contributing to the health of the forest.
Third and last, salvage logging has economic benefits. Many industries depend upon the forests for their production, and because of this discusses a fire can have a very harmful effect on the economy. Often, however, the trees that have been damaged by natural disasters still can provide much wood that is usable by industries. Furthermore, salvage logging requires more workers than traditional logging operations do, and so it helps create additional jobs for local residents.
The reading passage and the lectures both discuss merits and demerits of salvage logging, which is a practice of remove dead trees after forest fires. In the reading part, the author mentions that it has enormous advantage such as economic benefits, increasing the number if trees and reducing damage of trees itself. In the listening part, however, the speaker challenges what the author states and refutes the reasons.
To begin with, as mentioned in the article, the writer sets forth that salvage logging contributed to fresh and live trees to grow and makes new habitat for fresh trees; nevertheless, the professor rebuts the reasons asserting that it may apparently makes healthy room for new and fresh trees, but it has long term effects and makes much more damages. Indeed, it will ruin the perfect condition for new trees with rapid removal and it causes lack of nutrient for soil, in which is the main habitat for growing trees.
Secondly, the author points out that this makes suitable place for living and growing insects, swarms and harmful animals, hence they should be remove for more beneficial concepts. Nonetheless, the speaker flatly contradicts the reasons and contends that not only are dead trees placed for insects, but also it is a great place for other specious such as birds, therefore should they fired the forests, it would provide more harmful influences in the other specious habitat.
Finally, the author claims that salvage logging possesses economic advantages for people who lived there, in addition it provides additional job for them; however, the professor is of the opinion that economical effect did not last long effects for individuals. it needs helicopter, which is most costly and expensive and local residents cannot afford that. Moreover, it does not make additional job for the residents, resulting to destructive economic factors for them.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 311, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'termed'.
Suggestion: termed
...or new and fresh trees, but it has long term effects and makes much more damages. In...
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Line 9, column 145, Rule ID: SHOULD_BE_DO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'removed'?
Suggestion: removed
...d harmful animals, hence they should be remove for more beneficial concepts. Nonethele...
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Line 13, column 263, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
... not last long effects for individuals. it needs helicopter, which is most costly ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, apparently, but, finally, hence, however, if, may, moreover, nevertheless, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, in addition, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 7.30242825607 219% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 19.0 30.3222958057 63% => 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: 1596.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 306.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21568627451 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47237719233 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 145.348785872 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.565359477124 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 473.4 419.366225166 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 30.0 21.2450331126 141% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 82.0416967158 49.2860985944 166% => OK
Chars per sentence: 159.6 110.228320801 145% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.6 21.698381199 141% => OK
Discourse Markers: 16.2 7.06452816374 229% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.377450617321 0.272083759551 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.141644040141 0.0996497079465 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0724615092607 0.0662205650399 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.213353486129 0.162205337803 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.034696374279 0.0443174109184 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.5 13.3589403974 138% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.49 53.8541721854 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.0289183223 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.59 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.61 8.42419426049 114% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 63.6247240618 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 10.498013245 133% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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