Both the reading and the lecture discuss a new method called "cloud seeding" that can solve hail problem which damage tthe crops in some area of United States. The reading asserts three points that supports the usage of cloud seeding while the lecture counters each three points of it.
To begin with, the reading mentions that cloud seeding uses chemical silver iodide to make cloud precipitate harmless rain or snow instead of hail. The laborary evidence also supports the idea that it can be effective. However, the lecture says that it can only be occured in such laboratory condition. In the real condition, bad thing will be happened because there will be drought since lack of water.
Next, althought it is effective in Asia, there will be no certainty that it can be repeated successfully in US. The farm in Asia usually located near urban area where the air is highly polluted. On the other hand, cultivative area mostly in unpolluted area far from the city. That such different condition will be effect the chemical process of the cloud seeding.
Last, the passage explains that the cloud seeding will be efficient in such region. Nevertheless, the lecturer refutes this. She says that the seeding will affect not only in the exact region but also in their neighbor.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, nevertheless, so, while, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1079.0 1373.03311258 79% => OK
No of words: 217.0 270.72406181 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97235023041 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.8380880478 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44431713009 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 131.0 145.348785872 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.603686635945 0.540411800872 112% => OK
syllable_count: 327.6 419.366225166 78% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.4135627979 49.2860985944 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.0 110.228320801 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6923076923 21.698381199 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.23076923077 7.06452816374 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.150694695197 0.272083759551 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0508403302373 0.0996497079465 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.062103767037 0.0662205650399 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0883076868437 0.162205337803 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0432200088772 0.0443174109184 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.3 13.3589403974 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.25 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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