Both reading and lecture are about the new regulation added to control handling and storing coal ash. Coal ash is a waste product of the power plants and it contains some environmentally harmful chemicals. The author of the reading writes about the opinion of the power plants' representatives against the new regulation. However, the lecturer illustrates why these regulations are really important.
First, the representative points out that effective regulations already exist. As they further illustrate, the company add a liner ( a material prevents leaking of coal ash into the soil) to any new pond or landfill they build to dispose of coal ash. Although the lecturer agrees with this part, he is concerned about old ponds and landfills. That is why he asks to apply the new regulation of adding liners to old ones as well. He tells us about the leak of some coal ash chemicals from old pond resulting in contaminating drinking water nearby. This clearly illustrates why these new regulations are needed.
Second, representatives say that these added regulations will result in discouraging coal ash recycling. As more regulations come out about coal ash, the recycling company will consider it a hazardous material and they will stop recycling it. On the other hand, the professor doesn't agree. He says all through the history, other hazardous material with even more concerns, had been recycled and still considered as recycling materials. Mercury, for example, the recycling company still processing and recycling it for over fifty years now, although it considers as a very hazardous material. So the new regulations will not prevent or stop coal ash recycling.
Third. the strict regulation will definitely increase the cost on the power plants as well as on the consumers and electricity bills. The professor partially agrees to the point of increasing the cost, but he clarifies that that going to end with an increase as low as one percent in the consumers' electric bills, which is definitely worth it.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ther illustrate, the company add a liner a material prevents leaking of coal ash ...
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Suggestion: doesn't
...ng it. On the other hand, the professor doesnt agree. He says all through the history,...
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Suggestion: The
...nt or stop coal ash recycling. Third. the strict regulation will definitely incre...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, really, second, so, still, third, well, for example, as well as, 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: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1688.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 328.0 270.72406181 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14634146341 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88214750516 2.5805825403 112% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 145.348785872 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.518292682927 0.540411800872 96% => 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: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.203648259 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.7777777778 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2222222222 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.94444444444 7.06452816374 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
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: 0.519900177468 0.272083759551 191% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.167602533595 0.0996497079465 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.119796040032 0.0662205650399 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.291554265228 0.162205337803 180% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.111298457829 0.0443174109184 251% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.3589403974 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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