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The reading and the lecture both address about declination of the population of the yellow cedar, a species of tree that is common in northwestern North America. The author discusses the three reasons for the decrease of the yellow cedar. The lecture challenges all these points.
First of all, the author points out that insect parasite such as the cedar bark beetle was the causes of the yellow cedar's decline. The lecture challenges this point by explaining that the healthy yellow cedar is more resistance to the insect. The lecture mentions that it contains powerful chemicals which are poisonous to the beetle. Thus it is unlikely that cedars diminished by beetles.
Secondly, the author states that brown bears eat the yellow cedar because it has high sugar. So brown bears weaken the trees and they play an important role to decrease the population of the yellow cedar. The lecture rebuts this argument by explaining that yellow cedar trees decline in those areas where there were no brown bears exist. Therefore, this hypothesis is not true.
Lastly, the author contends that the third reason is climate changes. The author explains that climate changes have affected the root system of the yellow cedar since the yellow cedar trees were damaged by the freezing temperature. The lecture opposes this hypothesis by arguing that many damaged trees are located in the lower elevation which has warm temperature than in the higher elevation which has the freezing temperature.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 240, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...s for the decrease of the yellow cedar. The lecture challenges all these points. ...
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Line 3, column 337, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...cals which are poisonous to the beetle. Thus it is unlikely that cedars diminished b...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, lastly, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thus, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1246.0 1373.03311258 91% => OK
No of words: 243.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12757201646 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94822203886 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41496124174 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.522633744856 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 381.6 419.366225166 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.2100903373 49.2860985944 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.0 110.228320801 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3571428571 21.698381199 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.21428571429 7.06452816374 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.30632247313 0.272083759551 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.124450896716 0.0996497079465 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.113411903508 0.0662205650399 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.218363462843 0.162205337803 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0354705215933 0.0443174109184 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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