The reading and the lecture are both about a project concerned with producing a new kind of broccoli that can be grown on the East Coast. While the author of the article argues that this project contains several benefits, the professor disputes this claim. She states that sprouting broccoli on the East Coast is neither prosperous nor a rational decision. The lecturer casts doubt on the main points mentioned in the reading passage by providing three controversial reasons.
In the essay, the writer begins by saying that the cost of transporting broccoli from California by truck to the East Coast is so expensive, and this poses the high price of this vegetable in this region. However, the professor repudiates this idea. She asserts that newly cultivated broccoli will still be expensive since farmers can yield fewer amounts of this vegetable per hectare of land. Fewer harvest leads to selling broccoli at a higher price, even more than the price of hauling them all the way from California to the East Coast.
Furthermore, according to the reading passage, crossbreeding broccoli with other similar plants by using genetic modification technology is an effective approach to produce broccoli that can be grown on East Coast. On the other hand, the professor points out that many people trust neither genetically modified foods nor those companies doing so, and since this project is financially supported by these companies, people will reject buying new broccolis.
Finally, the author believes that vegetables should be fresh and broccolis transported from California to East Coast lose most of their vitamins and nutrients by the time they are delivered to the people. Not surprisingly, the professor refutes this claim by contending that instead of transporting broccoli from California to East Coast, people should be educated to use other local vegetables comprising the same vitamins and nutrients. For instance, they can use kale which can be yielded during both summer and winter and is prolific in this region.
To sum up, both the lecturer and the author hold conflicting views on the project of creating a new kind of broccoli that can be grown in areas with relatively warm climates like the East Coast.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, furthermore, however, if, so, still, while, for instance, kind of, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 54.0 30.3222958057 178% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1875.0 1373.03311258 137% => OK
No of words: 363.0 270.72406181 134% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1652892562 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3649236973 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66735528299 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 145.348785872 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.515151515152 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 559.8 419.366225166 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.699998168 49.2860985944 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.928571429 110.228320801 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.9285714286 21.698381199 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.42857142857 7.06452816374 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => 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: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.244648120356 0.272083759551 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0949475401374 0.0996497079465 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0572468559169 0.0662205650399 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148947238389 0.162205337803 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0144027130163 0.0443174109184 32% => 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: 15.9 13.3589403974 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 63.6247240618 143% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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