TPO 55 Writing 1Because of climate change, more and more land that was once used to grow crops or provide food for animals is turning to dry, unusable desert land. There are many proposals about how to stop this process, known as desertification. A number
The main idea of both the passage and the talk is whether box-shaped devices can be effective for desertification or not. In the text, the author claims that using box-shaped devices will not be successful in fighting against desertification and provides three reasons for its claim. The lecturer challenges all the mentioned arguments and believes that none of them is convincing.
Firstly, the author states that using the box-shaped devices is an expensive process. Conversely, the lecturer brings up the idea that box-shaped devices are usable for many trees rather than one tree. In this regard, governments can use these devices for other young trees after trees become larger. These devices are usable at least for 20 trees. Thus, by considering the above-mentioned points, the cost for the box-shaped devices seems more reasonable.
Moreover, the author asserts that local people are not interested in installing and maintaining the box-shaped devices since they are affected by desertification work long days in harsh conditions. The speaker, on the contrary, points out that utilizing some ways can motivate local people. First, if they have been allowed to use devices for other purposes, such as for vegetation, they are able to increase their annual production. Second, the big and large trees give this opportunity for farmers to use the trees' branch as a firewood.
Eventually, the passage holds the opinion that the devices' ability to collect and conserve water is limited. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that devices provide a situation for trees to have a long roots. In this regard, trees enable to use the moist soils beneath the surface and thrive. For instance, in the Sahara desert, the previous experiment's results have shown trees are able to sustain in such a harsh environment.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 52, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'devices'' or 'device's'?
Suggestion: devices'; device's
... the passage holds the opinion that the devices ability to collect and conserve water i...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
conversely, first, firstly, if, moreover, second, so, thus, as for, at least, for instance, such as, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1527.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 293.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21160409556 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79529893587 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549488054608 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 473.4 419.366225166 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.4331772907 49.2860985944 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.4375 110.228320801 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3125 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.4375 7.06452816374 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.100746256075 0.272083759551 37% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0389937136852 0.0996497079465 39% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0258516765989 0.0662205650399 39% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0666189404057 0.162205337803 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0169167644491 0.0443174109184 38% => 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: 12.3 13.3589403974 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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