TPO 23- Integrated
As it was stated in the reading passage, it is the author's belief that the population of yellow cedar, which is a common tree in northwest America, has been declining. He provided three reasons to substantiate his claim. On the contrary, the lecturer finds the justification of the author unconvincing and utterly repudiates the reasons as follows:
Initially, the writer brought up the idea that insect parasites can be the cause of this population decline. However, the lecturer is thoroughly doubtful about the reliability of this idea. As he points out that healthy cedars are resistant to insect attacks for they have some chemicals in them that kill insects. And if there are some dead trees with cedar bark beetles on them, it's because those trees had been already damaged or dead by the time the beetles attacked them.
Another emphasized point in the reading was that brown bears, that claw the trees in search of food, may be the reason of this steady decline in population. On the other hand, the lecturer refutes this one too by asserting that there is a population decline happening in all north western parts of America, including the islands. Bears don't live on these islands. So population decline is happening with or without the bears and for this reason bears can not be the cause of the decline.
As the last point, the author drew attention to the fact that that gradual changes of climate can damage the roots in freezing climate and this can be the reason of the decline. Yet again, the lecturer considers this hypothesis invalid as well by explaining that more trees are dying in lower elevations, which are warmer, than higher ones. So although cold and freezing climate makes the trees sensitive, it can't be a candidate for the cause of tree's declining population.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 52, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...tated in the reading passage, it is the authors belief that the population of yellow ce...
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Line 2, column 382, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
... trees with cedar bark beetles on them, its because those trees had been already da...
^^^
Line 3, column 337, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...f America, including the islands. Bears dont live on these islands. So population de...
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Line 4, column 409, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...g climate makes the trees sensitive, it cant be a candidate for the cause of trees d...
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Line 4, column 409, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'cants'?
Suggestion: cants
...g climate makes the trees sensitive, it cant be a candidate for the cause of trees d...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, may, so, well, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1490.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 306.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86928104575 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54018075385 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.532679738562 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 459.0 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.3241732765 49.2860985944 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.615384615 110.228320801 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5384615385 21.698381199 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.76923076923 7.06452816374 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.417289925413 0.272083759551 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.130307413229 0.0996497079465 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0696976563055 0.0662205650399 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.224802405291 0.162205337803 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0704102564214 0.0443174109184 159% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.