The Salton Sea in California is actually a salty inland lake. The level of salt in the lake’s water—what scientists call its salinity—has been increasing steadily for years because the lake’s water is evaporating faster than it is being replaced by rainfall or rivers. If the trend continues, the lake’s water will soon become so salty that the lake will be unable to support fish and bird populations. The lake would then become essentially a dead zone. Fortunately, there are several ways to reverse the trend that is threatening the lake’s health.
One option is direct removal of salt from the lake’s water in special desalination facilities. Water from the lake would be pumped into the facilities and heated. This would cause the water to evaporate into steam, while salt and other materials dissolved in the water would be left behind. The steam would then be cooled down and returned to the lake as salt-free water. Gradually, the high salt levels would be reduced and the lake’s overall health would be restored.
Another possible solution is to dilute the salt level in the lake with water from the ocean. Since water in the Pacific Ocean is 20 percent less salty than water in the lake, bringing ocean water into the lake would decrease the lake’s salinity. The ocean water could be delivered through pipelines or canals.
Yet another solution would be to control the lake’s salinity by constructing walls to divide the lake into several sections. In the smaller sections, salinity would be allowed to increase. However, in the main and largest section, salinity would be reduced and controlled by, among other things, directing all the freshwater from small rivers in the area to flow into that main section of the lake.
Both of the reading and the lecture discuss the solutions that can reverse the trend that is threatening the lake's health. To keep the lake from being too salty, the reading provides three possible solutions. However, the professor strongly disagrees with the reading passage. Accordingly, the professor presents three refutations.
First of all, the reading passage mentions the direct removal of salt from the lake's water in special desalination facilities. However, the professor thinks this is not a good idea at all. She thinks that after conducting the desalination process, the material that causes health risks will be left. Moreover, not only the salt will be isolated, but other chemicals will also be presented. Additionally, these other types of chemicals are probably toxic. The wind can blow the chemicals into the air, so the people around the lake will breathe the toxic chemicals into their bodies. Therefore, this is a way that leads to people's bad health.
Secondly, the reading mentions diluting salt with ocean water. Yet, the professor says that the way is impractical. To be more specific, the solution mentioned in the reading requires a long pipeline. The pipeline needs to be used to carry the water from the ocean. Due to the fact that the lake is really far away from the shore, the pipeline needs to be a really long one and it will cost a lot of money. In conclusion, the solution is not available because the long pipeline is too expensive.
Last but not least, the reading mentions that controlling the lake's salinity by constructing walls. Nevertheless, the professor thinks this is not a long-term solution. That is to say the solution can only solve the problem temporarily. She says that the lake encounters earthquakes frequently. Consequently, the earthquakes will be able to destroy the wall. As the result, when the walls are collapsed, the water will be mixed eventually.
In conclusion, the professor argues against each theory in the reading. That is to say, she does not think that the three solutions are possible.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'lakes'' or 'lake's'?
Suggestion: lakes'; lake's
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Suggestion:
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'lakes'' or 'lake's'?
Suggestion: lakes'; lake's
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, consequently, first, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, really, second, secondly, so, therefore, in conclusion, first of all, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 10.4613686534 210% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1731.0 1373.03311258 126% => OK
No of words: 341.0 270.72406181 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07624633431 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29722995808 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75580259311 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492668621701 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 517.5 419.366225166 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 18.0 8.23620309051 219% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 13.0662251656 191% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 21.2450331126 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 25.0348237461 49.2860985944 51% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 69.24 110.228320801 63% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.64 21.698381199 63% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.64 7.06452816374 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
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: 0.16944259964 0.272083759551 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0474223289693 0.0996497079465 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0484908232557 0.0662205650399 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0926525685085 0.162205337803 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0487754751369 0.0443174109184 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.3 13.3589403974 70% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.74 53.8541721854 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 11.0289183223 65% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.59 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.71 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.498013245 69% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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