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 author in this article and the lecturer both discuss whether the cloud seeding is effective to protect the crops from hail or not. The author explains that there are several pieces of evidence suggesting that cloud seeding has been extrememly effective in protecting crops from hail. Nonetheless, the lecturer casts doubts on the author's hypotheses and refutes each of the theories by providing several counter-arguments.
First of all, the author states that laboratory experiments have proved that the cloud seeding is effective. In this experiment, the experimenters added silver iodide to cold water vapor, which was formed by hail. Then, they observed light snow forming instead of hail pellets. However, the lecturer expresses that although the silver iodide can really prevent the hail from forming, the silver iodide also keeps others precipitation from forming, which in turn will casue problems such as drought. Thus, the crops might die by insufficient water.
In the second place, the author claims that Asian people successfully use cloud seeding to control the precipitation in urban areas, which means that the cloud seeding should also be feasible in protecting fields and farms in the United States. Nevertheless, the lecturer points out that Asian people use the cloud seeding in urban areas, which the pollution problems permeate severely. Surprisingly, the cloud seeding process interacts smoothly with these pollution problems, whereas areas, such as rural farming places, do not have pollution problems. Thus, the cloud seeding is not workable in these rural places.
Finally, the author indicates that few local studies also support the value of cloud seeding.To illustrate, a local study conducted in a farming region shows that the area where cloud seeding was used was reduced hail damage. In contrast, the lecturer declares that this farming region was not the only place, which were reduced hail damage. He says that there were neighboring area where showed minimal hail damage. Thus, he concludes that it was the weather per se that caused natural variation instead of the cloud seeding.
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- TPO 35- Task 1 68
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- TPO-33 - Integrated Writing Task 63
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 94, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: To
...also support the value of cloud seeding.To illustrate, a local study conducted in ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, nevertheless, nonetheless, really, second, so, then, thus, whereas, as for, in contrast, such as, first of all, in the second place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 21.0 12.0772626932 174% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1796.0 1373.03311258 131% => OK
No of words: 334.0 270.72406181 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.37724550898 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27500489853 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58918167335 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520958083832 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 528.3 419.366225166 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 15.0 8.23620309051 182% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.4759460557 49.2860985944 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.25 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.875 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.125 7.06452816374 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.197933244148 0.272083759551 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0710863454967 0.0996497079465 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0474370426648 0.0662205650399 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119581269072 0.162205337803 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0301096012965 0.0443174109184 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.3589403974 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.2367328918 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.74 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 63.6247240618 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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