summarize the points made in the lecture about salts problem in sea, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific solutions provided in the reading for solving salts problem.
The reading discusses possible solutions for reducing salt concentration in Salton sea located in California. However, the professor in the lecture thinks that these solutions are not generally realistic and would not be practical. She provides three reasons to refute each of the assumptions made in the reading section respectively.
First, the article states that the extra salt present in the sea can be removed by applying special desalination facilities. In contrast, professor believes that these systems may raise serious problems for the environment around this Lake. By extracting salt from the sea, other solid minerals which could not be removed from the sea would increase inside the remained water and introduce various threats for the people who live near the area. For example, concentration of selenium would increase significantly in the water which may consequently cause dangerous issues for humans.
Second, the passage explains that fresh water can be transferred from ocean to dilute the salt accumulated in the sea. On the other hand, the professor insists that this policy can not be feasible, since the government could not support its huge funding. It would take a lot of money to construct canals and river roads alongside with pumping systems that can transfer water from one hundred kilometers away which seems quit impossible.
Third, the reading regards that making walls can control the salt concentration and prevent its increase in main central area. In contrary, she opposes with this solution and reminds that this work can only help the sea in short term, because severe earthquakes happen frequently in the area which can ruin all the dividing walls built for controlling the salts. Therefore, this could only be considered as a short term solution normally.
- Fiction such as short stories or novels can teach us more about life than textbooks can Do you agree or disagree with the statement 74
- Some people like to work or study at night others like to work or study during the day Which do you prefer work or study at night or during the day Give specific reasons and examples to illustrate your answer 77
- Sports or library 52
- Should university students be required to attend classes? 70
- TOEFL T P O 23 - Integrated Writing Task 3
Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, third, for example, in contrast, in short, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 5.04856512141 317% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1527.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 286.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.33916083916 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68847470318 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.576923076923 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 453.6 419.366225166 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.1945339852 49.2860985944 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.461538462 110.228320801 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.38461538462 7.06452816374 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
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: 0.231910253607 0.272083759551 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0881030184347 0.0996497079465 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0515946239353 0.0662205650399 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14653595015 0.162205337803 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.064089575396 0.0443174109184 145% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.3589403974 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.2367328918 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.2 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 63.6247240618 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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