The reading and the lecture are both about the increment in the level of salt in the Salton Sea in California. While the author of the reading proposes three solutions to reduce the salinity, which is the amount of salt in the lakes' water, the professor rejects all of them. She states that the solutions proposed in the text are neither practical nor realistic. The lecturer casts doubt on the main points made in the reading by providing three controversial reasons.
In the article, the author begins by saying that using desalination facilities would make the lake's water free of salt and other materials as they left behind during this process. However, the professor asserts that desalination might reduce the salinity of water, but it would cause some serious problems. The material left behind due to desalination contains chemical and toxic substances that may find their way into the atmosphere and pose some serious health problems for the people nearby.
Furthermore, according to the reading passage, the lake's water can be diluted by ocean water. The ocean water could be channeled through pipelines or canals to the Salton Sea lake. On the other hand, the lecturer points out that this project requires approximately the construction of a hundred kilometers of pipelines and canals, which is very expensive, and the government would not comply with granting this amount of money to this project.
Finally, the writer believes that erecting walls in the lake in dividing the lake into several sections might be an effective solution. Not surprisingly, the professor refutes this claim by contending that salt lakes and seas are usually in the regions that suffer from intense geological activities like potent and repeatable earthquakes. These walls will finally collapse because of the earthquakes, and the water in different parts will intermingle again.
To sum up, both the lecturer and the author hold conflicting views on how to make the Salton Sea lake's salinity diminish.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 98, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'lakes'' or 'lake's'?
Suggestion: lakes'; lake's
...ing views on how to make the Salton Sea lakes salinity diminish.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, furthermore, however, if, may, so, while, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 30.3222958057 155% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1682.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 324.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19135802469 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6698297998 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549382716049 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 515.7 419.366225166 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.507369066 49.2860985944 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.142857143 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1428571429 21.698381199 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06452816374 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.288170711935 0.272083759551 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104671074035 0.0996497079465 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0796551104644 0.0662205650399 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153971373303 0.162205337803 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0314112265787 0.0443174109184 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.87 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 63.6247240618 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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