According to the reading passage, it is stated that some power company representatives are against the creation of new stricter laws to handle and store the coal ash, which is a waste material that comes from process of burning coal. The article presents several arguments of those companies in relation to the topic. However, the lecturer challenges the assumptions made by the author, and refutes them by presenting three key reasons.
Firstly, the reading contends that some effective regulations such as, the necessity of using liner-special material for the companies, already exists. The professor, however, raises skepticism about this assertion by explaining that since those liners are not being used for the old ponds, the existing laws are not sufficient. She emphasizes that there is a risk for the contamination of drinking water by harmful chemicals in the old ponds as well as new ones.
Secondly, the article asserts that customers may be concerned of the hazards, and they may not be likely to buy the recycled materials by coal ash. On the contrary, the lecturer counters this claim by saying that unlike what is mentioned in the reading passage, consumers are likely to buy and support recycled products. She provides an example of mercury to clarify this point. According to her, mercury is also a dangerous material that has been regulated to be stored, and people are not afraid of buying recycled thing of it.
Finally, the reading posits that strict regulations will be costly for the power companies, and to compensate it, they may need to increase the electricity prices. The professor disputes this notion by elaborating that although such actions will have a lot cost for power companies, the average consumer electricity bills will rise by only one percent. Therefore, the results of such regulations are definitely worth the cost.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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... them by presenting three key reasons. Firstly, the reading contends that some ...
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... in the old ponds as well as new ones. Secondly, the article asserts that custo...
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...afraid of buying recycled thing of it. Finally, the reading posits that strict ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, such as, as well as, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1561.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 303.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15181518152 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75316767572 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.567656765677 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 487.8 419.366225166 116% => 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: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.3700027419 49.2860985944 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.076923077 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3076923077 21.698381199 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.53846153846 7.06452816374 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.194902171799 0.272083759551 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0592209561252 0.0996497079465 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0679935540366 0.0662205650399 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103214624098 0.162205337803 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0265832836972 0.0443174109184 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.89 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.26 8.42419426049 110% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 63.6247240618 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.