TPO23
The reading passage deals with the issue of the decline of yellow cedar. The professor's talk focuses on the same topic. However, he believes that those explanations provided by the reading are inadequate. And in the lecture, the professor makes three specific points to back up his point of view.
In the first place, even though the reading passage suggests that the population of yellow cedar is decreasing because of the insects that parasite in it, the professor claims in the lecture that this is not the fundamental cause. That is because the bark and leaves of healthy yellow cedar are poisonous to insects, which means are powerful enough to deal with those beetles. Apparently, the professor's argument disproves its counterpart in the reading.
In the second place, contrary to the statement in the reading that brown bears claw at the trees to feed themselves with tree bark, the professor argues that this reason is not to the overall species. Then he supports this point with the fact that there are no bears on the Island where yellow cedars grow. Besides, the number of bears is also declining. In other words, bears are not responsible for the reduction of yellow cedar.
Further, the professor states that weather cannot explain the issue while the author of the reading claims that gradual climate changes are the cause of this problem. The professor shows that this claim is unwarranted by pointing out that places where the population of the yellow cedar is declining have warm weather instead of freezingly cold which is more likely to make trees die out.
To sum up, the professor precisely discovers the flaws in the reading passage and successfully reveals that the arguments in the passage are incorrect.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 394, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'professors'' or 'professor's'?
Suggestion: professors'; professor's
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, apparently, besides, first, however, if, second, so, then, while, in other words, to sum up, in the first place, in the second place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1451.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 290.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00344827586 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4762486491 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 145.348785872 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510344827586 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 434.7 419.366225166 104% => 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.7044109617 49.2860985944 123% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.642857143 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7142857143 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.85714285714 7.06452816374 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.240581216849 0.272083759551 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0848279190614 0.0996497079465 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0726216286547 0.0662205650399 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128841874978 0.162205337803 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0919054548446 0.0443174109184 207% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.72 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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