TPO 63
The reading makes the point that several solutions have been proposed by ecologists to control the cheatgrass, an invasive species which would invade and drive out other plants. The professor, in contrast, holds a different view by stating that the solutions in the reading are not likely to work well.
First, even though the reading passage suggests that animals like cattle or other livestock which feed on cheatgrass could be used as grazers, the professor argues in the lecture that grazers do not like cheatgrass at all. So, if other plants are included in fields where cheatgrass is prevalent, grazers would eat other plants at first. As a result, other plants, even the protected plants would be destroyed by the grazers.
Moreover, despite the statement in the reading that using controlled fires is an easy and quick way to eliminate cheatgrass, the professor contends that cheatgrass would return quickly. This is because most of the seeds produced by cheatgrass are buried under the surface and fire would not harm them, which means although the cheatgrass on one field would be cleaned by the fire, their seeds below surface could still germinate and sprout quickly.
Finally, contrary to what is mentioned in the reading that fungal parasite which specifically attacks cheatgrass would be accessible, the professor maintains that it is not an efficient way. Since fungus and cheatgrass have lived together for thousands of years. In this case, cheatgrass has developed a system against fugus, which means that only weak and sick cheatgrass would be attacked and those healthy cheatgrass could resist the fungus.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, if, moreover, so, still, well, in contrast, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1372.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 263.0 270.72406181 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21673003802 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02706775958 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55234208423 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.566539923954 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 389.7 419.366225166 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 57.5743866663 49.2860985944 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.2 110.228320801 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3 21.698381199 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.1 7.06452816374 101% => 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 : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.483461314379 0.272083759551 178% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.210468372112 0.0996497079465 211% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.100336634146 0.0662205650399 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.296648006106 0.162205337803 183% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0524454463121 0.0443174109184 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 13.3589403974 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.59 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => 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: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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