In this set of materials the lecture and passage both are discussing about ways to protect the environment from harmful effects of coal ash; which is a byproduct formed after burning coal in power plants. The lecture proposes that stricter rules and regulations are essential for disposing the coal ash for the power companies. On the other hand, the passage argues that the rules and regulations are already placed and no need to intensify them.
First of all, the lecturer posits that the rules and regulations in the current scenario are not adequate to address the problems causing from disposal of coal ash. Although, the companies use liners for new ponds and landfills in order to protect the surrounding environment that is not benefiting the environment. More stricter regulations should be made so that the power plants will used liners to old ponds and landfills as well, which are contaminating the drinking source because of leakage causing harmful effects on people health. Whereas, the author claims that there are already stricter laws in place which help protect the environment by extensive use of liners. Additional law are not necessary for the purpose.
Next, professor refutes to misconception that the article mentions that consumers will stop using the recycled products because they will think that the products are very harmful as stricter laws are at place. On the contrary, the consumers will buy the recycled products. For example, they already use mercury even though, it has very stricter laws regarding handling and disposing it. So the article claim is very weak.
Finally, even though the electricity cost will increase as mentioned by the author because of cost of handling and disposing coal ash; it is only one percent which is highly affordable. It is worth to spend that much money in order to have safer environment.
- TPO-25 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Young people nowadays do not give enough time to helping their communities.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 70
- TPO-43 - Independent Writing Task Imagine that you are in a classroom or a meeting. The teacher or the meeting leader says something incorrect In your opinion, which of the following is the best thing to do?-Interrupt and correct the mistake right away-Wa 53
- TPO27 - Integrated TOEFL essay 3
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Playing computer games is a waste of time Children should not be allowed to play them Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 50
- TPO-42 - Integrated Writing Task Glass is a favored building material for modern architecture, yet it is also very dangerous for wild birds. Because they often cannot distinguish between glass and open air, millions of birds are harmed every year when the 73
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 317, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[2]
Message: Use only 'stricter' (without 'More') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: Stricter
...that is not benefiting the environment. More stricter regulations should be made so that the ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 388, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'use'
Suggestion: use
...d be made so that the power plants will used liners to old ponds and landfills as we...
^^^^
Line 3, column 541, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Whereas” 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.
...using harmful effects on people health. Whereas, the author claims that there are alrea...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, if, regarding, so, well, whereas, for example, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1561.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 305.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11803278689 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62279507734 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.504918032787 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 476.1 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.2846815745 49.2860985944 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.5 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7857142857 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.92857142857 7.06452816374 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.457997188344 0.272083759551 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.141439031018 0.0996497079465 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102308530442 0.0662205650399 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.262366833347 0.162205337803 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.092090498713 0.0443174109184 208% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.3589403974 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
---------------------
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.