TPO 20 - Integrated TOEFL essay

The author of the reading discusses the negative effects of the "let it burn" policy and gives three reasons of support. The professor, however, believes that besides its damages, this policy is also creative, and gives 1998 Yellowstone Fire as an example to illustrate this.

First off, the reading states that this policy creates horrible damages to the environment. After Yellowstone Fire, one-third of the land became a wasteland. The lecturer, on the other hand, refutes this. She claims that after that, new plants found an opportunity to grow so, new vegetation emerged. For example, some small plants needed unshaded space to open up and this could not be possible if big trees would have been existing.

According to the article, this policy is also harmful to wildlife. Many wild animal species either escaped from their habitats or died on Yellowstone Fire. The speaker, however, believes that this fire provided some animals such as rabbits with new habitats. They could find places to survive against their predators. As a result, the food chain also became stronger.

Lastly, the passage contends that "let it burn" policy reduced the tourism activities and decreased local economic benefits. The professor opposes this by explaining that if Yellowstone Fire took place every year, this claim would be correct. However, Yellowstone Park attracted tourists as much as before and it continued the same. So, this is not problematic for tourism.

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Average: 7.8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 233, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...efutes this. She claims that after that, new plants found an opportunity to grow ...
^^
Line 3, column 411, Rule ID: IF_WOULD_HAVE_VBN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'had been'?
Suggestion: had been
...this could not be possible if big trees would have been existing. According to the article, ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, first, however, if, lastly, so, third, for example, such as, as a result, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => 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: 1253.0 1373.03311258 91% => OK
No of words: 234.0 270.72406181 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.3547008547 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91114542567 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5907905982 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 145.348785872 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.632478632479 0.540411800872 117% => OK
syllable_count: 386.1 419.366225166 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.2032070865 49.2860985944 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 78.3125 110.228320801 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.625 21.698381199 67% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.625 7.06452816374 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.228262489646 0.272083759551 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0746957352223 0.0996497079465 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0454222250195 0.0662205650399 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.143530531042 0.162205337803 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0184302193309 0.0443174109184 42% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 13.3589403974 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 48.81 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.16 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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