TPO-20 - Integrated Writing Task In the United States, it had been common practice since the late 1960s no to suppress natural forest fires. The “let it burn” policy assumed that forest fire would burn themselves out quickly, without causing much dama

Passage and lecture are both about "let and burn" policy, allowing forest fire to burn forest trees without causing much damage. On one side, the writer suggests three theories regarding changing this policy with policy of extinguishing forest fires due to immense damage caused by "let and burn" policy -like the fire in the summer of 1988 in Yellowstone. On the other hand, the lecturer cast doubts on the claims made by the author, stating that this policy is more constructive rather than be distractive.

First off, professor dismisses that fire cause huge damage to trees and vegetation with two arguments. First, eliminating trees obtains place needed for growing more vegetation and also causes more diversity to plants and vegetation. Second, there are some plants which need to be exposed to extreme heat so they can grow and the fire in 1988 acquire this heat for the plants.

In addition, it is not valid that fire only had negative effect on animals. This is due to the fact that this policy create more opportunities for animals rather than causing harm to their spices. The area after fire would be a great habitat for small animals like rabbits and hares and increasing these animal in the forest will lead to a new food chain to be created for larger animals.

Last, it is considered that the fire had negative consequences on the local economy in result of decreasing tourist attraction. First, this claim could be true if the fire occurs every year but, the fire of 1988 in Yellowstone took place in existence of several rare combination, like dry plants and strong winds, and it is obvious that the fire only have happened once in the past forty years. Furthermore, as the professor said, visitors came back to park year after the fire and eventually years after that so the local economy remains stable.

Votes
Average: 8 (1 vote)
Essay Categories

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, if, regarding, second, so, in addition, 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: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 30.3222958057 148% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1541.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 313.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92332268371 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20616286096 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48179275672 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.565495207668 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 484.2 419.366225166 115% => 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: 4.0 8.23620309051 49% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 52.1208531524 49.2860985944 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.416666667 110.228320801 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0833333333 21.698381199 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.33333333333 7.06452816374 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.405290002001 0.272083759551 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.148303146669 0.0996497079465 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0608681756865 0.0662205650399 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.230527245119 0.162205337803 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0430719526198 0.0443174109184 97% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.3589403974 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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