The reading and the lecture are both about the possibility of permanent settlement on the planet Venus. The author of the reading holds the opinion that it is not practical to live in Venus. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. He feels that it is completely possible to settle in Venus.
To begin with, the author argues that the atmospheric pressure at Venus' surface is at least 90 times greater than the pressure at Earth’s surface. This means that a force of 100 kilograms is pressing down on every square centimeter of surface. The article mentions that all spacecraft that have landed on Venus have been crushed by this extreme pressure within an hour of landing. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. He proposes the idea of floating. Atmospheric pressure decreases as height increases. If people were to live above the surface of Venus, the atmospheric pressure would be the same as Earth.
Secondly, the writer claims that the idea of ensuring a regular supply of water and oxygen from Earth is impractical in the extreme and would probably defeat the purpose of establishing a permanent station on Venus. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning that there is carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid which can be utilized to make oxygen and water. There would be no need to import them from Earth.
Finally, the author posits that very little sunlight reaches the planet’s surface. About 60 percent of the sunlight that hits Venus is reflected back into space by the thick clouds that fill the atmosphere, which means that only 40 percent of the sunlight can get through the clouds. Below these clouds is a dense layer of carbon dioxide, which blocks even more light, so very little light reaches the surface. The lack of light would prevent the use of solar power cells, so humans could not get electricity to power their machines and equipment. In contrast, the lecturer’s claims that the clouds are not thick and sunlight can still pass through. Since clouds are reflective, the direct and reflected sunlight would be enough to work solar panels.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 192, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...t it is not practical to live in Venus. The lecturer challenges the claims made by ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, still, at least, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 30.3222958057 171% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1757.0 1373.03311258 128% => OK
No of words: 355.0 270.72406181 131% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94929577465 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34067318298 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49117625532 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 145.348785872 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.521126760563 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 529.2 419.366225166 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.1320059835 49.2860985944 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.85 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.75 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.6 7.06452816374 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 4.45695364238 224% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.27373068433 211% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.173558790332 0.272083759551 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0503303626725 0.0996497079465 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.050201562863 0.0662205650399 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.100018241664 0.162205337803 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0222431599309 0.0443174109184 50% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.3589403974 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.13 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.99 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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