Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they respond to the specific points made in the reading passage.
TPO-36
Both the lecture and the reading discuss the effectiveness of cloud seeding. The author of the reading believes that this method works properly in order to protect crops from hail. The lecturer, however, casts doubt on the claims made in the article. She states that it is not clear how effective cloud seeding is.
First of all, the author of the reading points out that some laboratory experiments show that adding silver iodide to cold water vapor forms light snow instead of hail. This point is challenged by the professor. She says that laboratory conditions are different from reality, and silver iodide may prevent any type of precipitation and the crops will be damaged by another reason, the lack of water.
Secondly, the author states that there is evidence about effectiveness of this method from a few countries in Asia that successfully control precipitation in cities using cloud seeding. The lecturer rebut this argument. She suggests that the results in Asia could not necessary be repeated in United States. She elaborates on this by mentioning that this results may be consequences to air pollution in urban areas, which provides a favorable condition for precipitation and this method cannot be apply to an unpolluted area.
Finally, the author states that local studies support this method. As an example, it is mentioned in the passage that one study in a farming region in central United States showed that cloud seeding works properly. The professor, on the other hand, points that the hail damage decrease also in other regions, therefore it is the result of natural variation not cloud seeding.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 200, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'rebuts'.
Suggestion: rebuts
...ities using cloud seeding. The lecturer rebut this argument. She suggests that the re...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1364.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 267.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10861423221 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04229324003 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63095751881 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 145.348785872 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.554307116105 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 418.5 419.366225166 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.5939416664 49.2860985944 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.4285714286 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0714285714 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.78571428571 7.06452816374 110% => 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 : 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: 0.104591595764 0.272083759551 38% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0404411713174 0.0996497079465 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0359880249776 0.0662205650399 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0659879993376 0.162205337803 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0316280401361 0.0443174109184 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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