TPO 54. The Salton Sea in California is actually a salty inland lake. The level of salt in the lake's water—what scientists call its salinity—has been increasing steadily for years because the lake's water is evaporating faster than it is be

The author in the reading section is adamant that there are three solutions to the increasing salinity. However, the lecturer is dubious about these solutions.

For the first solution, the author believes that the direct removal of salt utilizing desalination facilities is able to resolve it. Conversely, the lecturer strongly opposes such saying by pointing out that there are other intoxicating chemicals in salty materials left behind. It is dangerous for local people to breath them in. Hence, such a solution will trigger a serious problem.

Additionally, the author advocates that we can dilute the salt level by pumping in water from the Pacific Ocean. Countering such statement, the lecturer cast doubt on the practicality of such deed. Since constructing pipelines and canals are resources consuming and given the Pacific Ocean is 100 kilometers away, the local government may not have enough resources to pay for such an expensive project.

Eventually, the author contends that a wall can be built to divide the lake into several sections to control the salt level. However, the lecturer rebuts this statement by elaborating the fact that this region is suffering from intense geographical activities like the earthquake which can destroy the wall. Therefore, the wall is unlikely to work for a long time, and once the wall is destroyed, the high salinity water will mix back into the low salinity one.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, first, hence, however, if, may, so, therefore

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 22.412803532 58% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1195.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 228.0 270.72406181 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.24122807018 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.88582923847 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73772407629 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.627192982456 0.540411800872 116% => OK
syllable_count: 375.3 419.366225166 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
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: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.9799582002 49.2860985944 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.5833333333 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.16666666667 7.06452816374 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.125934966376 0.272083759551 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0405881334396 0.0996497079465 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.044510257712 0.0662205650399 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0630247717778 0.162205337803 39% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0338334737542 0.0443174109184 76% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.3589403974 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.22 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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