The article and the lecture are about a specific project called cloud seeding which has the intention to reduce the damage produced by hail in crops in some regions of the United States. This consists in delivering a chemical over these areas in order to make clouds produce harmless forms of precipitations. The author in the passage believes that this technique seems to be reliable. However, the lecturer casts doubt on statements made in the article. She thinks that the evidence presented by the author is questionable.
First, the author claims that according to several experiments, this method works efficiently because in the laboratory light snow was produced instead of harmful hail. Nevertheless, this idea is challenged by the lecturer who posits that even it works in the laboratory, it is unlikely to produce the same effect in real life. Furthermore, she points out that this technique can prevent the environment to produce any precipitation which involves that the lack of water can make crops dry out.
Second, the article states that evidence in Asia supported the hypothesis that clouds seeding successfully monitored precipitations in urban areas. Nonetheless, the lecturer discredits this point by clarifying that this efficient result was due to particles presented in air pollution. Since it was put in practice in large cities pollution may play an important role in providing favor conditions to solve the issue but it is improbable to works in unpolluted areas such as farms in the United States.
Finally, the author mentions that due to the presence of evidence from local studies, this technique seems to be developed satisfactorily. The lecturer, on the other hand, puts forth the idea that the decrease of precipitation was not only presented in the specific area but also in surrounding towns which implies that it was because of variations of the weather instead of the could seeding.
- One of the threats to endangered sea turtle species is the use of nets by commercial shrimp-fishing boats. When turtles get accidentally caught in the nets, they cannot rise to the surface of the ocean to breathe, and they die. Some people suggest that th 83
- The article and the lecture are about three theories which pretend to explain the meaning or the purpose of some carved stone balls that dated around 4000 years ago. The author in the passage believes that these hypotheses have some evidence that supports 80
- Many scientists believe it would be possible to maintain a permanent human presence on Mars or the Moon. On the other hand, conditions on Venus are so extreme and inhospitable that maintaining a human presence there would be impossible. First, atmospheric 85
- Did bees (a type of insect) exist on Earth as early as 200 million years ago? Such a theory is supported by the discovery of very old fossil structures that resemble bee nests. The structures have been found inside 200- million-year-old fossilized trees i 78
- The article and the lecture are about three theories which have been proposed for clarifying the cause of a particular sound called “quackers” which was heard by sailors in Russian submarines in the 1960s. The author in the passage believes that those 80
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 325, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'cities'' or 'city's'?
Suggestion: cities'; city's
.... Since it was put in practice in large cities pollution may play an important role in...
^^^^^^
Line 4, column 395, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e weather instead of the could seeding.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, nevertheless, nonetheless, second, so, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 30.3222958057 168% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1614.0 1373.03311258 118% => OK
No of words: 311.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18971061093 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19942759058 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90062453412 2.5805825403 112% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 145.348785872 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.556270096463 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 506.7 419.366225166 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.25788549 49.2860985944 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.153846154 110.228320801 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.9230769231 21.698381199 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.46153846154 7.06452816374 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.116992451404 0.272083759551 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0394633804561 0.0996497079465 40% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0453435995156 0.0662205650399 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.07153523843 0.162205337803 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0354746282465 0.0443174109184 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.09 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 63.6247240618 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 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.