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 bum” policy were emphasized by critics of the policy.
Both the reading and the lecture try to discuss whether the "let it burn" policy caused irreversible problems for the most famous national park, Yellowstone Park or not. The reading passage claims that this policy caused forest fires had three major kinds of damage to the park's environment and provides some ideas for support. However, the lecturer finds all the issues mentioned by the reading uncertain and presents three claims to refute each of them.
Firstly, the author argues that the park's trees and vegetation have been highly destroyed by these huge Yellowstone fires; therefore, after these tremendous fires, there had been a devastated wasteland. On the contrary, the lecturer brings up the idea that this claim is highly implausible due to the fact that Yellowstone fires were not only destructive but also creative for the park. In fact, after this fire, the national park was colonized by new and diverse plants; therefore, this new condition created an excellent opportunity for the park to be taken over by small seeds of certain plants.
Additionally, the article holds the view that wildlife including large animals and smaller species had been adversely affected by these forest fires. Conversely, the professor underlies the fact that after Yellowstone fires, the park has been altered to an ideal habitat for certain animals such as rabbits, which can live and breed there successfully. As a result, this provides a lot of chances for rabbit's predators to be increased.
Finally, the passage asserts that the park fires considerably decreased tourism attractions and indeed caused negative results for the local economy. In contrast, the speaker dismisses this issue due to the fact that these fires would result in irreparable problems if they occurred periodically each year. There are other types of climate changes such as strong winds, severe rainfalls, and droughts, which in turn can cause several damages to the local economy rather than forest fires. Hence, decreasing tourism pupulation caused by these fires is not fair at all.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 284, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'parks'' or 'park's'?
Suggestion: parks'; park's
... had three major kinds of damage to the parks environment and provides some ideas for...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, finally, first, firstly, hence, however, if, so, therefore, as for, in contrast, in fact, such as, as a result, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1747.0 1373.03311258 127% => OK
No of words: 331.0 270.72406181 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27794561934 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26537283232 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60384755471 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 145.348785872 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583081570997 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 534.6 419.366225166 127% => 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.7428071119 49.2860985944 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.384615385 110.228320801 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4615384615 21.698381199 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.5384615385 7.06452816374 163% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.164889950869 0.272083759551 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0608734981199 0.0996497079465 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.047821248759 0.0662205650399 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103187446859 0.162205337803 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0441791275777 0.0443174109184 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 13.3589403974 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.64 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.31 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 63.6247240618 146% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => 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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