The author in the reading passage suggests three ways to decrease the salinity of Salton Sea, while the professor in the lecture refutes all of them by saying that all three solutions are unrealistic.
First of all, in the reading passage, the author argues that the salt in the lake can be directly removed by evaporation of water inside, which leave the salt behind during this process. However, the professor disproves this solution because it may cause serious problem, such as health risks for human. To be more specific, when the water evaporating, the left behind solid not just include salt, but also other chemicals like Selenium, which may be toxic when they go into the air with wind. Then, the people breath in the toxic air would result health problems.
Second, although it may be effective to dilute the salt level in the lake by inducing lower salinity ocean water by using pipelines or canals, the professor claims that local government do not have much free resource to construct the pipelines. Because distance of the ocean and this lake is ten kilometers away, thus the construction fee of that long pipelines would be too expensive for local government to pay.
Finally, according to the reading, the author provides another solution to control the lake's salinity. The author points out constructing walls to divide the lake into several sections may help. Nevertheless, the professor disagrees this way by pointing out that this method won't work very long because of the intense geological activities like earthquakes in this area. Once the earthquake happens, the wall will collapse and the higher salinity water in the small section will go back to main section. Thus, the salinity level of this lake becomes the same in different sections.
To sum up, the professor indicates the three possible solutions for decreasing the salinity level of Salton Sea are impractical.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, so, then, thus, while, such as, first of all, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 30.3222958057 148% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1554.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 314.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94904458599 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20951839842 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45847496471 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 145.348785872 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.531847133758 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 493.2 419.366225166 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.23620309051 12% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
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: 1.0 13.0662251656 8% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 314.0 21.2450331126 1478% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 0.0 49.2860985944 0% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 1554.0 110.228320801 1410% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 314.0 21.698381199 1447% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 122.0 7.06452816374 1727% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 4.45695364238 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.241027012519 0.272083759551 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.241027012519 0.0996497079465 242% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0662205650399 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127601855418 0.162205337803 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0429578054316 0.0443174109184 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 158.9 13.3589403974 1189% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -247.23 53.8541721854 -459% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 0.0 5.55761589404 0% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 125.8 11.0289183223 1141% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 12.91 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 22.83 8.42419426049 271% => Dale chall readability score is high.
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 55.0 10.7273730684 513% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 127.6 10.498013245 1215% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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