Both the passage and the lecture are about a waste product called Coal Ash, which contains small amount of dangerous substances for environment. The passage provides the statement, that effective regulation about handling coal ash already exist, while, the cast brings reasons for inefficiency of current regulations.
First of all, the regulation which requires power companies to use liner-special materials in landfills and ponds has been brought as an instance to demonstrate the efficiency of current regulations. This kind of liners, prevent coal ash components from leaking into the soil, and polluting surrounding environment. This statement has been opposed by the professor who presents the cast. It has been mentioned that according to current regulation only new landfills and ponds are required to be covered by liner-special materials and the old ones are potential contamination source as the components of coal ash might leak from them.
Second, the passage states ,that putting strict regulation toward storing and handling coal ash may result in decrease in demand of materials ,which utilize recycled coal ash. The professor, in response, mentions that creating strict regulation for storing and handling other similar materials such as mercury in the past has not resulted in decrease of recycling of these materials ,and believes that customers will keep buying these products.
Finally, the author of passage believes, that putting new regulation will cause a great increase in electricity bills of consumers which is not welcomed by general public, whereas, the professor states that, all of the required investments will cause just one percent increase in cost of electricity which totally worth to protect the environment.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
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Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...esult in decrease in demand of materials ,which utilize recycled coal ash. The pro...
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Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...decrease of recycling of these materials ,and believes that customers will keep bu...
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Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...s of consumers which is not welcomed by general public, whereas, the professor states that, al...
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Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, may, second, so, whereas, while, kind of, such as, first of all
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 : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 13.0 22.412803532 58% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => 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: 1485.0 1373.03311258 108% => OK
No of words: 268.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.54104477612 5.08290768461 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04607285448 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85923902954 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 145.348785872 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.563432835821 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 444.6 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 29.0 21.2450331126 137% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 79.0322640789 49.2860985944 160% => OK
Chars per sentence: 165.0 110.228320801 150% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.7777777778 21.698381199 137% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.77777777778 7.06452816374 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.504554090699 0.272083759551 185% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.208326580732 0.0996497079465 209% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107060182561 0.0662205650399 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.280548711319 0.162205337803 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.101618661549 0.0443174109184 229% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.6 13.3589403974 147% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.58 53.8541721854 62% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 11.0289183223 143% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.44 12.2367328918 126% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.32 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.498013245 130% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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