The reading and lecture are about the role of dams in global warming. While author of the reading argues that dams have a role in decreasing the global warming, the lecturer disputes the claims presented in article. Her position is that dams are fallcious and have deterimental effect on environment. The article states that the hydroelectricity is hundred percent clean without emission of carbon dioxide which is responsible for global warming. It states that reducing emission of carbon dioxide has outweigh the cost involved in environmental degradation. The lecturer challenges this argument. She states that dams destroy the ecosystem of nearby areas. Dams create major floods in the areas near vallies therefore destroying the habitat of many animals. The forest are source of curbing global warming as they absorb the carbon dioxide, but due the floods these forest are destroyed and no more green house gases are absorbed. Therefore, dams nullify any positive effect of not emitting carbon dioxide. The lecturer goes on to add that on construction of dams many vast area are cleared out. The dead vegetation that is left behind emits large amount of methane that has deleterious effects on the environment. However, the author asserts that the methane emitted from dams are compartively lower than the burning of fossil fuels. Lastly, the author puts forth the idea that dams can be an alternative to coal and other fossil fuels. In contrast, the lecturer's stance is that constructing of dams require steel and concreate which inturn uses large amount of fossil fuels. She says that the transportation of these raw material will burn more of fossil fuels therefore the overall fossil fuels used for construction of dams in higher than any other modern day science project.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 350, Rule ID: NODT_DOZEN[1]
Message: Use simply: 'a hundred'.
Suggestion: a hundred
...cle states that the hydroelectricity is hundred percent clean without emission of carbo...
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Line 1, column 503, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'outweighed'.
Suggestion: outweighed
...reducing emission of carbon dioxide has outweigh the cost involved in environmental degr...
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Line 1, column 1457, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'lecturers'' or 'lecturer's'?
Suggestion: lecturers'; lecturer's
...nd other fossil fuels. In contrast, the lecturers stance is that constructing of dams req...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, lastly, so, therefore, while, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1493.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 289.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1660899654 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12310562562 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65816472946 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.550173010381 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 463.5 419.366225166 111% => 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.7475672944 49.2860985944 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.3125 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0625 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.6875 7.06452816374 52% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 1.0 4.09492273731 24% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => 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: 0.183235227792 0.272083759551 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0665542099175 0.0996497079465 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0402786763125 0.0662205650399 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.183235227792 0.162205337803 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0443174109184 0% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.41 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.01 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 63.6247240618 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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