Essay topics: Hail—pieces of ice that form and fall from clouds instead of snow or rain—has always been a problem for farmers in some areas of the United States. Hail pellets can fall with great force and destroy crops in the field. Over the last few decades, a method of reducing hail, called "cloud seeding," has been tried. In cloud seeding, the chemical silver iodide is sprayed on storm clouds from an airplane. This makes the clouds produce harmless rain or snow instead of hail. Several pieces of evidence suggest that cloud seeding has been effective in protecting crops from hail.
The lecturer challenges the topic proposed in the reading that cloud seeding has been effective in protecting crops from hail. And she thinks that it is not clear that cloud seeding is effective because these evidences have questions.
First, the article suggests that experiments in the laboratory support the idea that cloud seeding is effective. However, the professor points out that cloud seeding would prevent any precipitation in real life, which is also a bad thing. because no clouds could engender rain, it would cause drought to harm crops from a different reason.
Second, the essay supposes that there is evidence about the effectiveness of cloud seeding from several countries around the world. But the lecturer considers that we cannot compare crops in asian countries to crops in the united states. because the regions of crops in asian countries are in the cities which is repleted with air pollution as chemicals to interact with crops. Whereas the interaction does not occur in unpolluted area such as fields and farms in the united states. Thus, we cannot execute this comparison.
Third, the passage indicates that a few local studies support the value of cloud seeding. Nevertheless, the professor argues that local studies are also unconvincing. because this reduction of hail damage is also occurred in eastern, southern and northern area, the reduction may be a natural variation rather than a particular result of cloud seeding.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: Because
...n real life, which is also a bad thing. because no clouds could engender rain, it would...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Because
...ountries to crops in the united states. because the regions of crops in asian countries...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Because
...at local studies are also unconvincing. because this reduction of hail damage is also o...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, so, third, thus, whereas, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1227.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 234.0 270.72406181 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.24358974359 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91114542567 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63129899199 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.57264957265 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 368.1 419.366225166 88% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.8782944892 49.2860985944 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.3846153846 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06452816374 99% => 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: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.184541031676 0.272083759551 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0627795967337 0.0996497079465 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0460844893461 0.0662205650399 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104320915699 0.162205337803 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0304075252566 0.0443174109184 69% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.3589403974 92% => 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: 12.82 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => 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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