The reading and the listening passages are both about the Salton Sea, which is an inland lake. Its salinity has been increasing steadily for years because of the water evaporation. While the reading provides three solutions to the problem, the professor casts doubts on them.
The author of the reading mentions that direct removal of salt from lake water by special desalination is one option. It mentioned that the water would be pumped into the facility to evaporate and remove salt and solid materials. The lecturer, on the other hand, explains that this process would create another type of toxic materials such as Selenium. This material will damage peoples’ health.
In addition, the writer claims that we can dilute the salt by bringing ocean water by pipelines or canals. Pacific ocean is less salty by 20 percent, so it would dilute the lake’s water. The professor, however, contends that the pipes are very expensive especially that the nearest shore is 100 km away from the lake.
Finally, the article states that constructing walls to divide the lake into sections could help. The professor rebuts this point. She says that the surrounding area is experienced volcanic activity like earth quick’s. therefore, the walls would not last for a long time and if they collapse the water would mix up.
All in all, the professor debunks all of the three options.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 224, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Therefore
...canic activity like earth quick's. therefore, the walls would not last for a long ti...
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Line 9, column 35, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...p. All in all, the professor debunks all of the three options.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, so, therefore, while, in addition, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1169.0 1373.03311258 85% => OK
No of words: 229.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10480349345 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89008302616 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55408124019 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.650655021834 0.540411800872 120% => OK
syllable_count: 352.8 419.366225166 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.3033584674 49.2860985944 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 77.9333333333 110.228320801 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.2666666667 21.698381199 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.86666666667 7.06452816374 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.315888240217 0.272083759551 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0934837649358 0.0996497079465 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0940881907774 0.0662205650399 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.147432570513 0.162205337803 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0930441074013 0.0443174109184 210% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.2 13.3589403974 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 53.8541721854 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.0289183223 73% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.71 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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