: Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the points made in the reading passage. You have 20 minutes to type your response.
The passage describes that dams are one of the most effective and beneficial form of generating electricity and they have other advantages too and provides reasons of support. However the professor thinks that although they are one of the main sources of renewable energies and are beneficial but they have some environmental and financial disadvantages too and refutes each of the articles reasons of support.
First the passage states that dams have many positive impacts on important because they hold massive water and form artificial lakes. These lakes made by dams can generate an artificial inhabitant for fish and local inhabitants. The professor refutes this idea and states that environment suffers from dams a lot because they need to close the river path to construct a dam and though this can cause many fish die. more over these lakes flow slower than natural rivers and this can negatively affect the productivity of fish.
Second the article discuses that the power that is produced from dam doesn’t cause environmental pollution and is much better than the power that is produced from fossil fuel and coal power. However the professor in contrary states that the flood that is generated because of the artificial lakes made by dams, can cause fish die and dead creatures produce metan that is a global warming gas. he added that dams release this gas and also it destroys the plants that can reduce greenhouse gases.
Finally the passage believe that dams have no financial burden on government and they provides two means of revenue, first the electricity that they produce and second water for irrigation. The professor states that they should spend a lot of money on controlling the flood that is caused because of artificial lakes that dams form, that not cheap at all. He states that to do this the government aid is needed and this financial aid is provided by local tax dollars.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...es too and provides reasons of support. However the professor thinks that although they...
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Line 5, column 416, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: More
...nd though this can cause many fish die. more over these lakes flow slower than natur...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...oduced from fossil fuel and coal power. However the professor in contrary states that t...
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Line 9, column 399, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: He
...uce metan that is a global warming gas. he added that dams release this gas and al...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Finally,
... that can reduce greenhouse gases. Finally the passage believe that dams have no f...
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Line 13, column 87, Rule ID: NON3PRS_VERB[2]
Message: The pronoun 'they' must be used with a non-third-person form of a verb: 'provide'
Suggestion: provide
...financial burden on government and they provides two means of revenue, first the electri...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, second, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 13.8261648746 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.0286738351 172% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 43.0788530466 88% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 52.1666666667 52% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1607.0 1977.66487455 81% => OK
No of words: 319.0 407.700716846 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03761755486 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22617688928 4.48103885553 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56253822145 2.67179642975 96% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 212.727598566 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.485893416928 0.524837075471 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 504.0 618.680645161 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.59856630824 42% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.51792114695 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.94265232975 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 20.6003584229 58% => 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 20.1344086022 129% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 44.2570615834 48.9658058833 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.916666667 100.406767564 133% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.5833333333 20.6045352989 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.16666666667 5.45110844103 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.5376344086 108% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 11.8709677419 42% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0705286347768 0.236089414692 30% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0312315777048 0.076458572812 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0257580724681 0.0737576698707 35% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0478585208702 0.150856017488 32% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0164889362179 0.0645574589148 26% => 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: 15.6 11.7677419355 133% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 58.1214874552 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 10.1575268817 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 10.9000537634 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.01818996416 105% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 86.8835125448 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 10.002688172 155% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.0537634409 123% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.247311828 156% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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