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 b

The reading and the lecture are both ways of decreasing tha salinity of the Salton Sea located in California caused by the fast evaporation of the lake's water. whereas the reading states that there are several ways to reverse the problem of the increasing salinity because of the fast evaporation of water, the lecturer casts doubt about the points made in the reading by providing three reasons.

firstly, the reading suggests the direct removal of salt from the lake's water in special facilities by pumping the water into the facilities and heating it. as a result the water will evaporate leaving the salt behind. the lecturer disputes this point. She stats that the desalination sounds as a great solution.However some of the solid materials left behind can be very harmful. some chimicals that can be spread with the wind are highly risky and makes the air that people breath toxic.

Secondly, the reading says that by adding ocean water to the lake's water would bring the lake's salinity down. Since the ocean's water is less salty the lake's. the lecturer refutes this point.She claims this solution requires a lot of money that the government can't provide. She explain her idea by mentioning the long distance between the ocean and the lake. this operation will require the construction of long piping line that can cost a fortune.

Laslty, the reading claims that building walls to divide the lake into several section with different size and salinity can be a great solution. the small section will have the high salinity leaving the largest section with a small salinity to maintain life. the lecturer refuses this idea. She states that the lake is located in an active geological area, when earthquakes occur usually. She then adds by saying that the walls would not resist and they will collapse easily.
all things considered, the reading provides a variety of solutions to decrease the salinity of the Californian lake. Nevertheless, the lecturer states some challenging ideas.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: Whereas
...he fast evaporation of the lakes water. whereas the reading states that there are sever...
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...will evaporate leaving the salt behind. the lecturer disputes this point. She stats...
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Suggestion: However
...desalination sounds as a great solution.However some of the solid materials left behind...
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...desalination sounds as a great solution.However some of the solid materials left behind...
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...erials left behind can be very harmful. some chimicals that can be spread with the w...
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...ater to the lakes water would bring the lakes salinity down. Since the oceans water i...
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Suggestion: can't; cannot
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...istance between the ocean and the lake. this operation will require the construction...
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... resist and they will collapse easily. all things considered, the reading provides...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, then, whereas, as a result

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 : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 5.01324503311 259% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1669.0 1373.03311258 122% => OK
No of words: 331.0 270.72406181 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04229607251 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26537283232 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48985858442 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 145.348785872 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522658610272 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 517.5 419.366225166 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less 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: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.2966364973 49.2860985944 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.8421052632 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.4210526316 21.698381199 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.78947368421 7.06452816374 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 17.0 4.19205298013 406% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.259651270373 0.272083759551 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0794257176708 0.0996497079465 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0829172976044 0.0662205650399 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145854237193 0.162205337803 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0476005336575 0.0443174109184 107% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 63.6247240618 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => 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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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