Burning coal in power plants produces a waste product called coal ash, a material that contains small amounts of potentially harmful chemicals. Environmentalists in the United States are concerned about the damage such harmful chemicals may be doing to th

The lecturer disputes the idea presented in the reading that their are sufficient rules and regulations for the disposal and handling of coal ash waste products. The lecturer asserts that more strict rules will result in a cleaner environment without significant extra cost on consumers of electricity.
First, the lecturer argues there should be strict rules on new as well as old ponds and land field disposal areas. The lecturer acknowledges that there are regulations to use liners in new pond and landfill. However, the lecturer states that old built ponds and landfills must also have strict regulation in order to prevent the leakage of coal ash waste product. For example, the latest leakage of ash products waste into the drinking water makes us obliged to implement those strict regulations.
Second, the lecturer argues that strict regulations will not prevent consumers from buying coal ash recycled waste products. The lecturer gives an example of another dangerous product which mercury. The strict rules of handling and disposal of mercury did not have any effect on consumers buying mercury recycled products.
Finally, the lecturer argues that strict rules on handling and disposal of coal ash waste product won't significantly increase the cost of electricity on consumers. The author argues that implementing strict regulation will result in an a significant additional cost on the consumers. On the other hand, the lecturer state the total increase in bill is around 15 billion dollars. If we divide this amount on the total consumers of electricity, it will result in only one dollar increase in each bill. Thus, it is worth protecting the environment for this small additional cost.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 62, Rule ID: THEIR_IS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'there'?
Suggestion: there
... the idea presented in the reading that their are sufficient rules and regulations fo...
^^^^^
Line 4, column 233, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'an' or 'a' is left.
Suggestion: an; a
...enting strict regulation will result in an a significant additional cost on the cons...
^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, second, so, thus, well, for example, as well as, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1438.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 273.0 270.72406181 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2673992674 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06481385082 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69748325144 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.487179487179 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 437.4 419.366225166 104% => 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: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => 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: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 28.0146645272 49.2860985944 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 102.714285714 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.21428571429 7.06452816374 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => 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: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.112354450101 0.272083759551 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0463696446913 0.0996497079465 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0458692681854 0.0662205650399 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0766616134643 0.162205337803 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.015565061638 0.0443174109184 35% => 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: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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