TPO-22 - Integrated Writing Task Ethanol fuel, made from plants such as corn and sugar cane, has been advocated by some people as an alternative to gasoline in the United States. However, many critics argue that ethanol is not a good replacement for gasol

The author of the reading passage and the professor both discuss whether or not the ethanol is a good replacement for gasoline. The author is against this idea by expressing three disadvantages of using the ethanol fuel replaces the gasoline. However, the professor thinks that the author's reasons contain some defects.

First of all, the author states that while burning the ethanol fuel, it still generate carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Therefore, there is no advantage for the environment to substitute the gasoline to ethanol. On the contrary, the professor indicates that although burning the ethanol fuel will release the carbon dioxide, processing of growing the ethanol will remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Because ethanol is a plant, the plant will absorb the carbon dioxide to generate the nutrition for itself.

In addition, the author claims that the substantial source of food for animals would disappear due to most of the ethanol is corn. And the corns are the essential food for farm animals such as cows and chickens. However, the professor asserts that ethanol fuel is made of the plant's cell wall, which is not eaten by the animals. Therefore, using the cell wall part of the plants won't decrease the food sources for animals.

Finally, the author raises the point that because the government supports the tax subsidies, the price of the ethanol fuel and the gasoline are equal. Since the government stops help producers, the price of ethanol would raise up. On the other hand, the professor asserts that the government won't do this for a long time. Because when ethanol fuel becomes more available, the price will decrease. According to the study.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 66, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
... passage and the professor both discuss whether or not the ethanol is a good replacement for g...
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Line 3, column 79, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'generates'?
Suggestion: generates
...hile burning the ethanol fuel, it still generate carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The...
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Line 5, column 277, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'plants'' or 'plant's'?
Suggestion: plants'; plant's
...sserts that ethanol fuel is made of the plants cell wall, which is not eaten by the an...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, so, still, therefore, while, in addition, such as, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1416.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 277.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1119133574 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07962216107 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50753143593 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.490974729242 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 436.5 419.366225166 104% => 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: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.0176794755 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.5 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3125 21.698381199 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.75 7.06452816374 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.507160622697 0.272083759551 186% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.173838773836 0.0996497079465 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.078320036456 0.0662205650399 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.303669017115 0.162205337803 187% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0581905715669 0.0443174109184 131% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.06 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.84 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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