Both the passage and the lecture discuss Genetically modified trees, which are trees engineered to grow faster or be resistant to plagues. The passage claims that these trees out-perform and have many benefits over natural trees. However, the passage casts doubt on these claims and asserts that GMO trees have many drawbacks.
First, the passage states that GMO trees are stronger than natural trees. A case of Hawaiian papaya is mentioned were the tree population was severely attacked by a virus but researchers saved them by developing a tree with immunity to said virus. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that while engineered trees are resistant to a particular threat, they can be entirely wiped out if they face one that they were not designed for. Moreover, the lecturer states that genetic diversity in natural trees produce at least a single individual that is resistant to virtually all environmental challenges, and would then repopulate the species.
Second, The passage claims that these trees present great economic advantages to those who plant them. The author elaborates on this by asserting that GMOs can grow faster and give more fruits than non-GMO. The lecturer rebuts this argument. She argues that companies which sell modified seeds charge them expensive and farmers are legally bound to continue buying them, so the benefit goes to the corporate and not the farmers.
Finally, the text presents the idea that GMOs could be used to save wild trees. It is explained that the demand for wood requires companies to cut down forest increasingly fast but if they would use modified trees that grow faster they would not need to cut down more forests. The lecturer challenges this point. She asserts that GMO trees often displace nature trees and the effort would not be productive.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... then repopulate the species. Second, The passage claims that these trees pres...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, moreover, second, so, then, while, at least, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
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: 1520.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 298.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10067114094 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45695339233 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.563758389262 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 460.8 419.366225166 110% => 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: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
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: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.5300119055 49.2860985944 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.333333333 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8666666667 21.698381199 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.4 7.06452816374 91% => 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 : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.466481495023 0.272083759551 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.146385046517 0.0996497079465 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0871642628498 0.0662205650399 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.28148561727 0.162205337803 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0626469516379 0.0443174109184 141% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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