The reading and the lecture both discuss the use of ethanol fuel as an alternative to gasoline. While the article claims that it is not a good replacement for gasoline and provides three arguments, the professor refutes, saying that ethanol fuel is a good alternative to the gasoline and contradicts each of the author's claims.
First, the article argues that ethanol fuel will lead to global warming as its burning releases carbon dioxide. However, the professor explains that ethanol fuel production requires planting corn that is used in the process of production. Therefore, while the ethanol fuel burning releases carbon dioxide, the increase in corn planting will remove it from the atmosphere.
Secondly, the article claims that the use of corn and plants in manufacturing ethanol will decrease the amount of food for animals. The professor in the lecture challenged this point by stating that ethanol can be produced by the cellulose found in the parts of the plant that are not eaten by animals. So, by using those parts, the animal food will not be affected by producing ethanol.
Finally, the reading posits that the price of ethanol will be increased in the future when the government stops the tax subsidies given to ethanol companies. This point is contradicted by the professor. He suggests that ethanol producers will increase their production when there are enough customers buying it. As a result of this, the price of ethanol will go down.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, as a result
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 : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1229.0 1373.03311258 90% => OK
No of words: 241.0 270.72406181 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09958506224 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94007293032 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63048286295 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 120.0 145.348785872 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.497925311203 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 378.0 419.366225166 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
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: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.8506795131 49.2860985944 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.416666667 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0833333333 21.698381199 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.33333333333 7.06452816374 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.493969044424 0.272083759551 182% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.199882986577 0.0996497079465 201% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0659011636768 0.0662205650399 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.308325557507 0.162205337803 190% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0221610804212 0.0443174109184 50% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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