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.
The main idea of both the text and the lecture is about a policy under the name of “let it burn” which states that it is better that the fire in the forest burn itself out. Having considered this, the author believes that this policy causes strong damage and provides three criticisms for this policy to be abolished. The lecturer, on the other hand, categorically denies the reasons mentioned in the passage, citing that fire is natural part of the ecological environment and it is not always destructive.
First, both the reading and the talk discuss the Yellowstone fire and its effect on natural vegetation. Accordingly, the reading claims that the fire in this region scorched the vegetation and plants in a devastating manner. However, the lecture mentions that after the Yellowstone fire new plants were colonized in that region which made the diversity of vegetation even more. On the basis of the lecture, it is taken for granted that although some plants of Yellowstone Park were destroyed because of the fire, small plants were grown after the fire which could grow on open and shaded space. Besides, there are some seeds which will not germinated unless there is an explosion of heat.
Second, both the lecturer and the author explain the effect of Yellowstone fire on animal habitats. In this vein, the author states that the wildlife was adversely affected by the fire and a numbers of small species died as a result. Conversely, the lecturer points out that animal could even recover in the scorched areas. This devastating effect can encourage new habitat to live there and it will become an ideal habitat for rabbit and hares for instance which in turn thrive predators. In this case a complete and ideal food chain will be developed which is highly strong.
Third, both the reading and the lecture put forth the idea of the effect of fire on the economy of the region. While the reading mentions that the economy is negatively affected by the fire, since there will be no visitors willing to watch a park being engulfed in fire, the lecture states the other way around. According to the lecture, this idea would be true if the fire happened every year. However, it was once-in a time event and it was also the results of a combination of factors such as low rainfall, unusual wind, accumulation of dry undergrowth. Thereafter, it cannot be mentioned that these results happen frequently and it was also apparent that lots of visitors have visited Yellowstone parked years afterward.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, besides, conversely, first, however, if, second, so, third, while, for instance, such as, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 10.4613686534 210% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 7.30242825607 205% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 30.3222958057 158% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2096.0 1373.03311258 153% => OK
No of words: 427.0 270.72406181 158% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.90866510539 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54576487731 4.04702891845 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53831111686 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 145.348785872 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.475409836066 0.540411800872 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 663.3 419.366225166 158% => 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: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.3910886813 49.2860985944 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.444444444 110.228320801 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7222222222 21.698381199 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.72222222222 7.06452816374 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.130138270425 0.272083759551 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0425196299206 0.0996497079465 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0649270141003 0.0662205650399 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0903896197332 0.162205337803 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.081243817319 0.0443174109184 183% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.3589403974 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 63.6247240618 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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