decrease salinity in the Salton Sea
The reading passage explores how to decrease the rising salinity in the Salton Sea, a salty inland lake, and several options are proposed. As reasonable as these points seem, the professor in the lecture casts doubt on them, indicating that all are unrealistic.
To begin with, the author suggests that we can refresh the lake’s water with desalination facilities. By heating the water in the facilities, we can return water to the lake without any salt and other materials left. Conversely, disputing the reading’s point, the lecturer notes that several problems will follow on the close heels of it. Since the water will evaporate into steam during the desalination, some toxic materials left behind in the facilities might spread into the air, inducing a health risk for human breathing. Therefore, the lecturer disagrees with this proposal.
Second, even though the author claims that we can pipe ocean water which is 20 percent less salty the lake water into the lake to dilute the salt level, the lecturer argues that it’s a misconception. She details that the local government can't afford the pipelines or canals that carry ocean water. Furthermore, she mentions that the nearest shoreline is still too far from the lake, making it hard to build long enough pipelines. Accordingly, the lecturer believes that it might be difficult for this option to work.
Last but not least, the lecturer acutely identifies a weakness in the article that we can construct walls to divide the lake into several sections and thus control the salinity in the main and largest section. She points out that the lake is located in a place where many geological activities often occur. For example, she states that earthquakes can destroy walls and cause fresh water to mix with salty water again. As a result, the lecturer finds this alternative not plausible.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 238, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
.... She details that the local government cant afford the pipelines or canals that car...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, conversely, furthermore, if, second, so, still, therefore, thus, for example, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1554.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 306.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07843137255 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57397703338 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 145.348785872 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59477124183 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 477.9 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.6373037816 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.6 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.13333333333 7.06452816374 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 4.33554083885 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.0791900364971 0.272083759551 29% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0300038873487 0.0996497079465 30% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0983445351616 0.0662205650399 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.079222434629 0.162205337803 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.119231944369 0.0443174109184 269% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.65 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 63.6247240618 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 238, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
.... She details that the local government cant afford the pipelines or canals that car...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, conversely, furthermore, if, second, so, still, therefore, thus, for example, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1554.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 306.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07843137255 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57397703338 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 145.348785872 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59477124183 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 477.9 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.6373037816 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.6 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.13333333333 7.06452816374 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 4.33554083885 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.0791900364971 0.272083759551 29% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0300038873487 0.0996497079465 30% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0983445351616 0.0662205650399 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.079222434629 0.162205337803 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.119231944369 0.0443174109184 269% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.65 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 63.6247240618 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 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.