TPO 54
The reading passage and the lecture both discuss that the level of salt in lake's water in the Salton Sea in California has been increasing steadily for years and the author proposes some theories that may reverse the trend of this increase. However, the lecturer does not conceive the theories convincing and refutes them all.
First, as it set forth by the author, one option may be the direct removal of salt from the lake's water by pumping the water into desalination facilities and then heating the water. On the contrary, the lecturer being critical of this theory contends that the desalination may raise some problems. By evaporating the water the solid material that will leave behind might be toxic and also some evaporated materials like selenium will damage other animals of the lake' health.
Second, the author states that diluting the salt level with the water from the ocean may be another option because the ocean contains much less salt than the lake. On the other hand, the lecturer posits that this theory will not solve the problem. Because diluting the salt level would require the government to invest money on that for building pipelines and canals but as she said the government does not have enough resources.
Third, the reading mentions that building walls to divide lake into several sections is another solution and in the smaller section, there would be no control over the salinity level. Not regarding it persuasive, the lecturer says that this solution is unlikely to work in long-term because if some natural disasters like earthquakes happen, it will destroy the wall easily and the wall will collapse. That being so, the water in the two sides of walls will be combined.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, regarding, second, so, then, third, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 5.04856512141 257% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1427.0 1373.03311258 104% => OK
No of words: 288.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95486111111 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.32948332754 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.53125 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 440.1 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 54.7287828242 49.2860985944 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.727272727 110.228320801 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1818181818 21.698381199 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.63636363636 7.06452816374 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.0 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: 15.0 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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
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