Yellow cedars

Essay topics:

Yellow cedars

The reading passage is about the causes of a decline in the populations of yellow cedar trees in North America but the lecturer refutes the reading's ideas.

First, the reading says bark beetles, a kind of insect, attack the trees and their larvae eat the wood which damages the trees.However, the lecturer says healthy cedars are resistant to insects because they produce a poison that kills the insects and that the insects attack trees are already sick, damaged, or even dead.

Second, according to the reading brown bears claw at the tree bark because it has much sugar which bears want to eat. But the lecture rejects this idea and believes that it happens sometimes that bears attack trees, but it is not the cause because there are not any bears in that area where cedars grow.

Finally, the reading passage says climate change is another cause which destroys yellow cedars because trees always grow at the first of spring, but now because of climate change, they grow at the end of winter, so on cold winter nights that it is possible to freeze the root of trees and kill them. While according to the lecture the most of the trees usually die somewhere in the low elevation where it is warmer than the high elevation so this cause cannot be responsible for killing cedars.

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Average: 7.1 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 128, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: However
...ae eat the wood which damages the trees.However, the lecturer says healthy cedars are r...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 174, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[9]
Message: The adverb 'sometimes' is usually put before the verb 'happens'.
Suggestion: sometimes happens
... rejects this idea and believes that it happens sometimes that bears attack trees, but it is not ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, second, so, while, kind of

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1061.0 1373.03311258 77% => OK
No of words: 225.0 270.72406181 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.71555555556 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.87298334621 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.17798638457 2.5805825403 84% => OK
Unique words: 121.0 145.348785872 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.537777777778 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 321.3 419.366225166 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 6.0 13.0662251656 46% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 37.0 21.2450331126 174% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 73.9107945807 49.2860985944 150% => OK
Chars per sentence: 176.833333333 110.228320801 160% => OK
Words per sentence: 37.5 21.698381199 173% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.33333333333 7.06452816374 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
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: 0.162726449262 0.272083759551 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0907421349063 0.0996497079465 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0878714890472 0.0662205650399 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119076994664 0.162205337803 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0792572925179 0.0443174109184 179% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.6 13.3589403974 147% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.84 53.8541721854 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 11.0289183223 140% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.69 12.2367328918 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 36.0 63.6247240618 57% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 10.7273730684 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.8 10.498013245 160% => OK
text_standard: 20.0 11.2008830022 179% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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