The reading and the lecture are both contradicting with each other, in a term of danger spreading by a fungus called Phytophthora ramorum to the forests in the western states. The author of the reading presented three theories about how to protect the forest from this fungus. However, the lecturer casts doubt about the claim mentioned in the article and refutes all the theories presented in the article. She says that the ideas are not effective and practical.
First of all, according to the reading, an effective method to stop spreading fungus is to encourage the hikers to wash their shoes and installing new bike scrubbers on their bicycle trails because this fungus is mainly spread through shoes and cycle tires. On the contrary, the speaker negates the argument presented in the passage. Furthermore, he discusses the fungus that it can be spread through the rainwater to the river stream which may help the fungus to spread in a long distance and that way it would be hard to get a control on the infection.
Secondly, the author posits that the fungus can be prevented with the use of fungicidal chemicals which need to inject in the oak trees. Although the lecturer refutes this by asserting, the presented method will work only if the chemical will be injected directly to the tree trunk and there are thousands of trees infected from this fungus. Thus, it would be costly to treat all the infected trees.
Finally, it is mentioned in the article that disease can be removed by cutting down all the infected trees in the forest. On the other hand, the speaker believes that since not all the trees are infected, we may lose the healthy trees if we would cut down all the oak treed in the forest. As a result, some serious ecologic damage might occur which may be greater than the damage which is carried out by the infected fungus to those trees.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, thus, as a result, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 5.04856512141 257% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 30.3222958057 158% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1543.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 326.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.73312883436 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40917089626 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.493865030675 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 459.9 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.7443270561 49.2860985944 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.692307692 110.228320801 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0769230769 21.698381199 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.4615384615 7.06452816374 148% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.19744179333 0.272083759551 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0689780584869 0.0996497079465 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0602974802627 0.0662205650399 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115254290284 0.162205337803 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.042409757398 0.0443174109184 96% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 63.02 53.8541721854 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.45 12.2367328918 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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