Rising sea level
The passage talks about the gradual increase in the sea level during the last decade and the potential reason for this rise. It states that the rise in the polar ice melting is not the reason for the increase in the sea level. This statement is justified using the example of ice melting in a glass of water. Just like the melting of ice in a glass of water doesnt cause the water to splil over the glass, similar is the situation when ice cap melts. Since the ice is 90% in water and goes into liquid state, nothing drastic would happen.
The speaker in the lecture is not convinced of this reasoning. She states the melting of the permafrost, that is the ice cap present on land can result in increasing sea levels. As this portion of ice is present on land and not in water, hence the above reasoning will not apply. Also, currently we are greatly underestimating the amount of water trapped in the permafrost, which is leading us to undermine its contribution to the increasing sea level.
The 3rd paragraph in the passage mentions that agencies like NASA have stated that they are unaware of the source of the new water, that is causing the increase in sea levels. The speaker is not convinced of this statement. She believes that NASA is unable to account for some portion of the rise in sea level but for most part of this rise, we know the reason. Clearly human activities are causing increased greenhouse effect, resulting in the heating of the atmosphere, causing the permafrost to melt.
The speaker believes that humans are located mostly around sea levels and that given the current rate of increase in sea levels, we do not have the time to adjust to changes. Unlike the passage that states that the sea ;level rise is a slow process and is nothing to be worried about.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 359, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
... the melting of ice in a glass of water doesnt cause the water to splil over the glass...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 30.3222958057 165% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1471.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 322.0 270.72406181 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.56832298137 5.08290768461 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23607819155 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.37232323232 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.462732919255 0.540411800872 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 464.4 419.366225166 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.2421524266 49.2860985944 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.0666666667 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4666666667 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.6 7.06452816374 23% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.350040405643 0.272083759551 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.13910646787 0.0996497079465 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.159611093754 0.0662205650399 241% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.260702597516 0.162205337803 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.105558432178 0.0443174109184 238% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.3589403974 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 53.8541721854 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.23 12.2367328918 75% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 65.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 19.5 Out of 30
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