TPO 63 Cheatgrass
In the lecture, the professor discusses why the ideas to control the spreading of cheatgrass are not useful. This casts doubt on the reading, which states that could be easy managing the cheatgrass invasion in North America.
First, the lecturer talks about the grazers preference for other plants that ARE not the cheatgrass. So, animals on open fields would prefer to eat other plants and not the cheatgrass. This contradicts the information in the reading, with claims that encouraging animals to feed on this plant should be a good option to solve the problem. Mainly because the problem is higher in places where cattle and other livestock are normally most raised.
In addition, the speaker makes the point that cheatgrass produces many, many seeds and these seedS could germinate even a few years after the A fire endS. Therefore, a lot of these structures are below the soil, where the fire can’t damage them. This opposes statements in the reading, which asserts that the using controlled fires will eliminate just the cheatgrass and benefit the native species growth.
Finally, the professor clarifies that the cheatgrass and the fungal parasite have lived together in the original habitat for thousand of years. This period gave the cheatgrass the possibility to create resistance against the parasite, damaging only already weak or sick individuals. Conversely, this refutes the text which states that the introduction of this specific kind of fungal parasite impossibilite the cheatgrass reproduction.
Clearly, the professor disagrees with all reasons given in the reading passage.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 37, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'grazers'' or 'grazer's'?
Suggestion: grazers'; grazer's
...a. First, the lecturer talks about the grazers preference for other plants that ARE no...
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Line 3, column 139, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'A' is left.
Suggestion: the; A
... could germinate even a few years after the A fire endS. Therefore, a lot of these st...
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Line 4, column 126, Rule ID: NODT_DOZEN[1]
Message: Use simply: 'a thousand'.
Suggestion: a thousand
...ed together in the original habitat for thousand of years. This period gave the cheatgra...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
conversely, finally, first, if, so, therefore, as to, in addition, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1349.0 1373.03311258 98% => OK
No of words: 253.0 270.72406181 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.33201581028 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98822939669 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67411095675 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.592885375494 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 402.3 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 28.0618505381 49.2860985944 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 103.769230769 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4615384615 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.69230769231 7.06452816374 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.491874825506 0.272083759551 181% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.160044192931 0.0996497079465 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0789239616739 0.0662205650399 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.223735368265 0.162205337803 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.123788629041 0.0443174109184 279% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.63 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.01 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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