Broccoli is a vegetable that is popular throughout the United States, but it can be grown only in temperate climates with mild summers. Because of this limitation, 90 percent of the broccoli consumed in the United States is grown in the cooler regions of California, on the West Coast. It must be shipped 4:000 kilometers across the entire country to reach the populous East Coast
This situation may soon change, however: scientists are attempting to create a new type of broccoli that can be grown on the East Coast despite the hotter summers there. This project has several potential benefits.
First, growing broccoli on the East Coast and distributing it to nearby grocery stores would lower broccoli costs for consumers Transporting the vegetable from California by truck takes several days, which makes transportation costs high. Growing broccoli locally would reduce transportation costs, so stores could sell broccoli for less money.
Second; the new type of broccoli will probably be much more desirable to consumers than some other new crops. The new broccoli is being created using traditional breeding techniques: researchers are crossbreeding broccoli with other similar plants that have desirable characteristics, such as resistance to hot summers Other new crops—varieties of squash or maize, for example—were created using genetic modification technology. Genetically modified crops are very controversial: many consumers believe they are unsafe and so reject them. However, the new broccoli will not be in that category.
Third, vegetables are healthiest to eat right after they are harvested because they retain most of their beneficial nutrients and vitamins. The Ion ger it takes for a vegetable like broccoli to reach consumers, the fewer nutrients and vitamins it contains. Broccoli that is grown locally can be eaten much sooner after it is cut, which will make this new broccoli healthier for East Coast residents than California broccoli.
Broccoli is a nutritious plant which is grown in areas with milder summers such as California. In eastern parts of the United States where summers are hotter, broccoli cannot be grown. Thus, the text proposes three reasons as to why implementing a project to grow broccoli in the east coast is viable. While the professor casts doubt on those points.
First of all, the text suggests that locally growing broccoli is financially beneficial. The transportation costs will be significntly reduced, resulting in lowering the cost for consumers. The lecturer challenges this idea by suggesting that growing this plant in the regions where it is not environmentally suitable, significantly decreases the yield per hectar ratio. According to her, this decrease in transportation will be canceled out by the inevitable lower yields.
Secondly, the desirability of this newly modified product is casted doubt upon by the professor. According to the passage, using traditional cross-breeding techniques ensures people that this plant will be healthier than genetically modified crops. The professor points out the fact that this process is carried out by the same companies that have genetically modified other plants. Hence customers will still not trust the product.
Finally, the passage points out the freshness of the locally harvested plant. Fresh broccoli will be richer in nutrients and vitamins for east coast consumers. The professor proposes other alternatives to this by saying that there are locally grown plants that posses similar benefits and are locally grown such as kale. This plant yields year long, and it is locally harvested.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: “While” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
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Line 5, column 384, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...have genetically modified other plants. Hence customers will still not trust the prod...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, hence, if, second, secondly, so, still, thus, while, as to, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1393.0 1373.03311258 101% => OK
No of words: 256.0 270.72406181 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.44140625 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88392117485 2.5805825403 112% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.56640625 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 409.5 419.366225166 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.3190948946 49.2860985944 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.0625 110.228320801 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.0 21.698381199 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0625 7.06452816374 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.201690378166 0.272083759551 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0675239001389 0.0996497079465 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0837807518925 0.0662205650399 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128034098471 0.162205337803 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0890562733964 0.0443174109184 201% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.98 12.2367328918 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.99 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.