TPO 22 - Ethanol fuel, made from plants such as corn and sugar cane, has been advocated by some people as an alternative to gasoline in the United States. However, many critics argue that ethanol is not a good replacement for gasoline for several reasons.
The lecture and the reading are both about the possibility of using ethanol as an alternative for gasoline in the United States. The author of the reading provides three reasons to negate this approach. However, the lecturer argues those ideas as he believes they are not convincing.
Firstly, it is suggested in the passage that ethanol does not offer any environmental merits over gasoline. The article notes that ethanol also causes global warming like gasoline as it releases carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into the air when being burnt. This argument, nonetheless, is challenged by the lecturer. His position is that ethanol does not cause global warming because its emission of carbon dioxide is offset by the growth of its mother plants thanks to the fact that plants absorb this greenhouse gas when they grow.
Secondly, the writer contends that the vast production of ethanol will cause a shortage of food for animals like cows and chickens because ethanol is produced from corn which is used to feed farm animals. The lecturer, in contrast, disproved this by saying that ethanol can be produced from cellulose which can be extracted from plants not eaten by farm animals. Therefore, the amount of corn demanded by farm animals will not be affected.
Thirdly, the reading mentions that ethanol cannot compete with gasoline although both have the same price. It is due to the fact that the government has offered substantial tax subsidies for ethanol. Without this kind of tax, ethanol will be more expensive than gasoline. The lecturer, on the other hand, rebuts this statement. He puts forth the idea that the price of ethanol will reduce when there are enough consumers. He also asserts that if the production of ethanol triples, its cost will be reduced by 40% which means that ethanol is able to compete with gasoline without any tax support.
- TPO 28 - Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Parents today are more involved in their children’s education than were parents in the past.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 70
- TPO 36 - Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?For the successful development of a country, it is more important for a government to spend money on the education of very young children (five to ten years old) than to spend money on univers 76
- TPO 19 - Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?In order to be well-informed, a person must get information from many different news resources.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 76
- TPO 27 - The causes of the Little Ice Age 78
- TPO 22 - Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Teachers should not make their social or political views known to students in the classroom.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 76
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, in contrast, kind of, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1558.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 310.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02580645161 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19604776685 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4743512588 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.535483870968 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 486.9 419.366225166 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.4772675074 49.2860985944 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.375 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.375 21.698381199 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.8125 7.06452816374 125% => 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 : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.46524551725 0.272083759551 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.150039490456 0.0996497079465 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.099541798495 0.0662205650399 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.265082772004 0.162205337803 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0561528480381 0.0443174109184 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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