The reading and the lecture present different attitudes towards whether new regulations should be brought in to deal with a pollutant called coal ash. Despite the three reasons given in the passage in favor of the idea, the lecturer contests each of them with compelling arguments, contending that stricter regulations are necessary.
Firstly, the author of the article points out that such regulations already exist, such as the one urging companies to adopt liner-special material in handling the waste. However, the speaker questions the idea, holding that the current regulations are not sufficient. As for the one mentioned above, the liner-special material is mandatory only for newly-built landfills or ponds, but several old ones are contributing much to coal ash leakage and ground water pollution.
In addition, the author argues that handling coal ash with special methods may affect its recycling process, keeping consumers from accepting the recycled products. In terms of this, the lecturer cites mercury as an example. Strict rules have been adopted in handling mercury wastes, but consumers show little concern about the safety of recycled mercury products. This contests the author's worries about reprocessing.
Finally, the author predicts that the more complex disposal process will result in a rapid increase in company expenditure and electricity prices, which may cause public discontent. Nonetheless, the speaker asserts that the prospect is well worth the cost. She estimates the additional cost for companies at 15 billion dollars, which may raise the household electricity costs by 1 percent. The price is acceptable for most households.
- TOEFL T P O 41 Integrated Writing Task 3
- Movies and television have more negative effects than positive effects on the way young people behave 86
- High school students now cheat more than before in homework assignments by asking other students for answers Which of the following do you think is the most effective way to stop this phenomenon 1 Asking parents to monitor signing homework to prove no che 76
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement These days children spend more time on doing homework or participating in organized activities related to school or sports However they should be given more time to do whatever they want 90
- TPO 41 Integrated Writing Task Burning coal in power plants produces a waste product called coal ash a material that contains small amounts of potentially harmful chemicals Environmentalists in the United States are concerned about the damage such har 80
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, nonetheless, so, well, as for, in addition, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1412.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 255.0 270.72406181 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.53725490196 5.08290768461 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99608801488 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79754932024 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.647058823529 0.540411800872 120% => OK
syllable_count: 423.0 419.366225166 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.8643457659 49.2860985944 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.615384615 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6153846154 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.61538461538 7.06452816374 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0 0.272083759551 0% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0 0.0996497079465 0% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0662205650399 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0 0.162205337803 0% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0443174109184 0% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.8541721854 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.85 12.2367328918 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.78 8.42419426049 116% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 63.6247240618 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, nonetheless, so, well, as for, in addition, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1412.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 255.0 270.72406181 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.53725490196 5.08290768461 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99608801488 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79754932024 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.647058823529 0.540411800872 120% => OK
syllable_count: 423.0 419.366225166 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.8643457659 49.2860985944 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.615384615 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6153846154 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.61538461538 7.06452816374 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0 0.272083759551 0% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0 0.0996497079465 0% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0662205650399 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0 0.162205337803 0% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0443174109184 0% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.8541721854 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.85 12.2367328918 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.78 8.42419426049 116% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 63.6247240618 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.