The Salton Sea in California is actually a salty inland lake. The level of salt in the lake's water—what scientists call its salinity—has been increasing steadily for years because the lake's water is evaporating faster than it is being replaced by rainfall or rivers. If the trend continues, the lake's water will soon become so salty that the lake will be unable to support fish and bird populations. The lake would then become essentially a dead zone. Fortunately, there are several ways to reverse the trend that is threatening the lake's health.
One option is direct removal of salt from the lake's water in special desalination facilities. Water from the lake would be pumped into the facilities and heated. This would cause the water to evaporate into steam, while salt and other materials dissolved in the water would be left behind. The steam would then be cooled down and returned to the lake as salt-free water. Gradually, the high salt levels would be reduced and the lake’s overall health would be restored.
Another possible solution is to dilute the salt level in the lake with water from the ocean. Since water in the Pacific Ocean is 20 percent less salty than water in the lake, bringing ocean water into the lake would decrease the lake’s salinity. The ocean water could be delivered through pipelines or canals.
Yet another solution would be to control the lake's salinity by constructing walls to divide the lake into several sections. In the smaller sections, salinity would be allowed to increase. However, in the main and largest section, salinity would be reduced and controlled by, among other things, directing all the freshwater from small rivers in the area to flow into that main section of the lake.
The author of the reading passage and the professor both discuss the problem of a salty inland lake. The author mentions that there are several ways to reverse the trend that is threatening the lake’s health. However, the professor discords with the idea mentioned in the reading passage. He offers several reasons to oppose the argument of this article.
First of all, although in the article the author claims that they can eliminate salt from the lake by using particular equipment, the professor indicates that some solid materials and harmful material which is threatening to human’s health will be left behind. Therefore, the professor actually believes that removing salt from the lake is not a satisfying method to resolve the problem of the lake’s health.
Second, even though the author states that diluting the salt level in the lake with water from the ocean can decrease the lake’s salinity, the professor mentions that establishing a long pipeline will cost a lot of money. Moreover, the government don’t have much money to build this construction. As a result, the professor can conclude that diluting the salt level is also not an efficient solution.
Finally, the author of the article indicates constructing walls to divide the lake into several sections can easily control the lake’s salinity by directing all the freshwater from small rivers in the area. However, the professor points out that this location of the lake has innumerable earthquakes which can totally destroy the walls. Thus, the two sections of this lake will eventually mix together again.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...o oppose the argument of this article. First of all, although in the article th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, finally, first, however, moreover, second, so, therefore, thus, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1343.0 1373.03311258 98% => OK
No of words: 257.0 270.72406181 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22568093385 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00390054096 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5963660073 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 145.348785872 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.536964980545 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 405.9 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.1107932308 49.2860985944 128% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.916666667 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4166666667 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.75 7.06452816374 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.225430914799 0.272083759551 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.086852992941 0.0996497079465 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.065702504336 0.0662205650399 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142335913203 0.162205337803 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0207875809304 0.0443174109184 47% => 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: 13.9 13.3589403974 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.92 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => 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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