The reading and the lecture are both about a method of reducing hail, called "cloud seeding.” The author of the reading holds the opinion that this is an effective way of reducing hail for crops to strive. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. He feels that cloud seeding does not work.
To begin with, the author argues that experiments in the laboratory support the idea that cloud seeding is effective. Hail usually forms water vapor that is close to the freezing point However, when experimenters added silver iodide to cold water vapor in the laboratory, they often observed light snow forming instead of hail pellets. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that the results in laboratory conditions may vary from the conditions in real life. Additionally, he says that cloud seeding prevents any sort of precipitation including rain, which would then cause a drought further damaging the crops, just in different ways.
Secondly, the writer claims that there is evidence from Asia about the effectiveness of cloud seeding. For example, cloud seeding has been successfully used to control precipitation in urban areas. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning that the evidence is just based on urban areas where pollutants could affect the result of cloud seeding. In rural areas where farms are, it would react differently without the air pollutants.
Finally, the author posits that a few local studies also support the value of cloud seeding. One study conducted in a farming region in the central United States, for example, directly monitored crop damage due to hail. The study found that in an area where cloud seeding was used there was reduced hail damage compared to previous years. In contrast, the lecturer’s stance is that hail damage decreased in other areas as well, not just where they have done cloud seeding. Suggesting that the hail reduction is probably caused by natural variations of the local weather, not cloud seeding.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, well, for example, in contrast, sort of, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 1.0 7.30242825607 14% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1694.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 327.0 270.72406181 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18042813456 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5910605941 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 145.348785872 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.559633027523 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 508.5 419.366225166 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.0143683474 49.2860985944 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.6470588235 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2352941176 21.698381199 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.05882352941 7.06452816374 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.198576249742 0.272083759551 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0597801364661 0.0996497079465 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0378219503042 0.0662205650399 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119769586356 0.162205337803 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0254012050053 0.0443174109184 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 63.6247240618 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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