TPO22 Integrated TOEFL essay

In this set of materials, the reading passage states that ethanol fuel is not a good alternative to gasoline in United States and provides some reasons. However, the lecturer finds all the idea skeptical and shows some evidence to refute them all.

First of all, the author of the passage claims that ethanol fuel would produce carbon dioxide as much as gasoline so their effects like global warming are the same. In contrast, the lecturer argues that it is correct that ethanol release carbon dioxide but it is originated from corn plant which can remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Since the plants need CO2 as part of nutrition to grow, they can reduce its level significantly. So, the final result of this equation is decrease of CO2 in air.

Furthermore, it is mentioned in the reading passage that if we produce ethanol from available plants, we would lose a good source of food for farm animals. On the contrary, the lecturer contends that it is possible to use Cellulose to produce ethanol. Animals do not eat Cellulose in their food and if we use this part of plants, we would not reduce animal foods’ supply. Hence, ethanol does not affect animal feeding.

Finally, the reading passage asserts that the price of gasoline and ethanol are the same while United States government considers tax subsidies for ethanol producers. Conversely, the lecturer claims that if people buy more ethanol, its production will increase and the price will decrease. For example, if companies produce it three times greater, the cost would drop 40%. In fact, after selling more ethanol, it can compete with gasoline on price dramatically.

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Average: 8.5 (4 votes)
Essay Categories

Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'conversely', 'finally', 'first', 'furthermore', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'so', 'while', 'for example', 'in contrast', 'in fact', 'first of all', 'on the contrary']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.28664495114 0.261695866417 110% => OK
Verbs: 0.14006514658 0.158904122519 88% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0618892508143 0.0723426182421 86% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0456026058632 0.0435111971325 105% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0521172638436 0.0277247811725 188% => OK
Prepositions: 0.14332247557 0.128828473217 111% => OK
Participles: 0.00977198697068 0.0370669169778 26% => Some participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 2.49794257073 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0162866449511 0.0208969081088 78% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0879478827362 0.128158765124 69% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0293159609121 0.0158828679856 185% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00325732899023 0.0114777025283 28% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1639.0 1645.83664459 100% => OK
No of words: 274.0 271.125827815 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.98175182482 6.08160592843 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.04852973271 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.379562043796 0.374372842146 101% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.29197080292 0.287516216867 102% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.178832116788 0.187439937562 95% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0839416058394 0.113142543107 74% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49794257073 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 145.348785872 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536496350365 0.539623497131 99% => OK
Word variations: 53.3554586622 53.8517498576 99% => OK
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0529801325 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.5714285714 21.7502111507 90% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.5794303869 49.3711431718 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.071428571 132.220823453 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5714285714 21.7502111507 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.07142857143 0.878197800319 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.39072847682 0% => OK
Readability: 48.7685088634 50.5018328374 97% => OK
Elegance: 1.84931506849 1.90840788429 97% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.731040322913 0.549887131256 133% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.11755813411 0.142949733639 82% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0452224895018 0.0787303798458 57% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.551973045219 0.631733273073 87% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.125239043368 0.139662658121 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.295541784312 0.266732575781 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.135560610424 0.103435571967 131% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.305608588626 0.414875509568 74% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0124115142257 0.0530846634433 23% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.508437134979 0.40443939384 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0542781461479 0.0528353158467 103% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.26048565121 141% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 3.49668874172 172% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.62251655629 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 3.1766004415 126% => OK
Total topic words: 12.0 10.2958057395 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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ethanol release carbon dioxide
ethanol releases carbon dioxide

the final result of this equation is decrease of CO2 in air.
the final result of this equation is the decrease of CO2 in air.

Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 24 in 30
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 12
No. of Words: 274 250
No. of Characters: 1315 1200
No. of Different Words: 144 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.069 4.2
Average Word Length: 4.799 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.378 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 102 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 76 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 38 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 20 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.571 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.511 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.857 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.351 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.57 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.115 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4