The reading and the lecture are both about whether the U.S. government should sell Amtrak to a privately-owned company. While the author of the article suggests that there are three main reasons support the idea of selling Amtrak. The lecturer, on the other hand, claims that the arguments made in the article are not convincing.
To begin with, the article mentions that Amtrak is unprofitable project, and the government loses money from keeping it. According to the article, the number of people use Amtrak in the inaccessible regions is low, therefore it is not worthy to maintain it. This argument is challenged by the lecturer. She points out that Amtrak is not for profit purpose. She explains that the citizens in far and inaccessible areas have the right to have convenient Transportaion mean. So, the U.S. government provide them with Amtrak project to make their traveling easier.
Secondly, the article states that the supporting of the government to Amtrak is unfair for privately owned company, such as airline companies. The article adds that the ticket of Amtrak is cheaper than airline tickets due to the government supporting. The lecturer, however, asserts that the U.S. government support airline industries through many ways. She goes on to say that the government support financially the buildings of airline traffic and the training of airlines. According to the lecturer, airline companies could not exist without the assist of the government.
Finally, the author puts forth the idea that instead of using money on Amtrak, government should spend money on the more popular transportation means. In contrast, the lecturer's stance is Amtrak is not popular between people because it is outdated, and government should spend more money to enhance this service. The lecturer illustrates that people in Japan and Europe use the Amtrak a lot because it is fast and modern.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 121, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
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.
...ll Amtrak to a privately-owned company. While the author of the article suggests that...
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Line 4, column 168, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'lecturers'' or 'lecturer's'?
Suggestion: lecturers'; lecturer's
... transportation means. In contrast, the lecturers stance is Amtrak is not popular between...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, in contrast, such as, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 5.01324503311 259% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1590.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 306.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19607843137 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72075261039 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.509803921569 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 481.5 419.366225166 115% => 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
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.390816069 49.2860985944 60% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 93.5294117647 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.58823529412 7.06452816374 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.313935046054 0.272083759551 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0995452879498 0.0996497079465 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0821333584232 0.0662205650399 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.185868414601 0.162205337803 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.020334751367 0.0443174109184 46% => 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: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.58 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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