TPO-54#LECTUREThe 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 being

In this set of materials, the reading passage discusses several purposed solutions for decreasing water lack salinity and avoiding from reducing birds population. While in the listening the professor casts doubt on what is presented in the text and believes that each of these solutions is not practical.

First of all, in the text, it is clearly mentioned that reducing water lack salinity using desalination facilities. However, the professor claims that maybe this method can reduce salinity, but it can also create some health risks for people. Besides salt, will be some other chemical substance deposited in this area such as selenium which is highly dangerous for the people healthy if it arrives in the air.

In addition, the professor disagrees with this idea that adding ocean water could solve the problem. She says that transporting ocean water needs some construction facilities that it would be so expensive than the government can determine its financial resources.

Finally, in the text, it is stated that building some walls to dividing water into two parts, one small and a major part could solve the problem. The professor subscribes that it would not be a long-term solution and a practical one, because of the geology of this area. Lack present in the region with high risk of earthquake, so through earthquake walls would be destroyed and salt in the minor part would be dissolved again into the main part.

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Average: 7.6 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, finally, first, however, if, may, so, while, in addition, such as, first of all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1202.0 1373.03311258 88% => OK
No of words: 236.0 270.72406181 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09322033898 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91947592106 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60993560475 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.601694915254 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 362.7 419.366225166 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.23620309051 49% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 23.5507961649 49.2860985944 48% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 120.2 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6 21.698381199 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.9 7.06452816374 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.124402853147 0.272083759551 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0510620171388 0.0996497079465 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0228209634212 0.0662205650399 34% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0778953909075 0.162205337803 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0125506381529 0.0443174109184 28% => 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: 14.3 13.3589403974 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.79 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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