The salinity of the Salton Sea in California has been increasing steadily in recent years, and it puts the ecosystem at risk as some species may not be adapted to their habituation. Fortunately, there are three available solutions to address this problem, by removing the salt from lake’s, diluting the salt with ocean water or building walls to separate the lake into several sections. However, all these methods bring some other concerns.
The first solution is to remove the salt from the lake’s water by special desalination facilities, it may work well but also presents severe problems. The facility evaporates the water and leaves solid materials which may contain some toxic chemicals. If the wind brings it to the air, it would be dangerous to human’s health.
Another possible solution is to dilute the lake with less salty water, this sounds like a good idea. However, the ocean water with low-salinity is 100km away, the fact is it requires constructing long-distance pipelines, which would cost the local government limited resources, so this is not practical.
As for the third solution, building walls to separate the lake into several areas, so salinity in a few sections would keep increasing while the majority would be controlled. Obviously, it’s not a long-term strategy because of the intense geological activities in California. For instance, the earthquake would destroy the wall and water from special sections with high salinity would mix back in with the low-salinity from the main section.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, so, third, well, while, as for, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 12.0772626932 17% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 10.0 22.412803532 45% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1301.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 245.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.31020408163 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.95632099841 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84374116381 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 145.348785872 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.604081632653 0.540411800872 112% => OK
syllable_count: 400.5 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => 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: 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: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.4351314 49.2860985944 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.272727273 110.228320801 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2727272727 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.27272727273 7.06452816374 103% => 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 : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.303161222962 0.272083759551 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110047904257 0.0996497079465 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0591696080812 0.0662205650399 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186258373291 0.162205337803 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0521138925298 0.0443174109184 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.3589403974 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.17 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.