In the United States, it had been common practice since the late 1960s not to suppress natural forest fires. The “let it burn” policy assumed that forest fires would burn themselves out quickly, without causing much damage. However, in the summer of 1988, forest fires in Yellowstone, the most famous national park in the country, burned for more than two months and spread over a huge area, encompassing more than 800,000 acres. Because of the large scale of the damage, many people called for replacing the “let it burn” policy with a policy of extinguishing forest fires as soon as they appeared. Three kinds of damage caused by the “let it burn” policy were emphasized by critics of the policy.
First, Yellowstone fires caused tremendous damage to the park’s trees and other vegetation. When the fires finally died out, nearly one third of Yellowstone’s land had been scorched. Trees were charred and blackened from flames and smoke. Smaller plants were entirely incinerated. What had been a national treasure now seemed like a devastated wasteland.
Second, the park wildlife was affected as well. Large animals like deer and elk were seen fleeing the fire. Many smaller species were probably unable to escape. There was also concern that the destruction of habitats and the disruption of food chains would make it impossible for the animals that survived the fire to return.,
Third, the fires compromised the value of the park as a tourist attraction, which in turn had negative consequences for the local economy. With several thousand acres of the park engulfed in flames, the tourist season was cut short, and a large number of visitors decided to stay away. Of course, local businesses that depended on park visitors suffered as a result.
The reading asserts that since the late 1960s, in the United states there has been a common practice called '' let it burn'' which assumed that fire in the forests would burn themselves rapidly without any huge damages.
But, in 1988, a very huge fire occurred in the most famous national park, Yellowstone, and the fire forest lasted 2 month and most of the animal and plant species devastated. Because of that, many people wanted to substitute a new policy which must extinguish the fire as soon as they observed. However, the professor finds all ideas dubious and presents some evidence to refute them all.
First, the author asserts that the fire in the Yellowstone damaged most of the vegetation and plant species especially trees and smaller plants. Conversely, the professor argues that the fire forest had some benefits. This caused that some new species colonized there and it seems that the diversity among plants increased. Because some smaller plants require open or shaded areas. Additionally, some special seeds to grow need the heat.
Furthermore, the park wild life and large animals have been affected by fire. It has been seen that elk and deer could flee but the smaller animal could not escape and the food chain and their habitat were destroyed by fire. In contrast, the speaker states that fire has provided the opportunity to replace new species like rabbits and hares for colonizing, and then their predators which depend on them, will live there and as a consequence the food chain will be stronger more than before.
Finally, the fire has affected the tourist attraction and led to negative consequences in local economy. On the contrary, the professor dismisses this issue and presents the fact that to initiate a fire in forest, we need low rain fall and strong wind. Also, without 2 main mentioned factors, the occurrence of fire is impossible and during a long run, we had only a fire in Yellowstone forest and after that the tourist and visitors came back to the forest. Therefore, it seems that this reason cannot negatively affect the tourism attraction.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
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Suggestion: months
...llowstone, and the fire forest lasted 2 month and most of the animal and plant specie...
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...me special seeds to grow need the heat. Furthermore, the park wild life and larg...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, so, then, therefore, in contrast, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 7.30242825607 301% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1742.0 1373.03311258 127% => OK
No of words: 351.0 270.72406181 130% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96296296296 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32839392791 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46509714268 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 145.348785872 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.566951566952 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 536.4 419.366225166 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.1343808626 49.2860985944 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.875 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9375 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.125 7.06452816374 101% => 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 : 10.0 4.45695364238 224% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.342124865264 0.272083759551 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0982771205788 0.0996497079465 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.125011334306 0.0662205650399 189% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.204694794053 0.162205337803 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.156099783894 0.0443174109184 352% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 63.6247240618 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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