Based on the reading environmentalists in the United States claim that the United States government should establish new and stricter regulations for handling the coal ash which is harmful to the environment. On the other hand, representatives of power companies have the view that new regulations are not crucial. The article provides three reasons that power companies propose to support their claim. However, the lecturer explains that none of the reasons are true and refutes each of their reasons.
First of all, although the reading asserts that environmental regulations which are already exist are doing well, such as the rule that compels the companies to use a liner in every new pond and landfill they build, the lecturer strongly contends that by mentioning the old landfills and ponds. According to the lecturer, the landfills and ponds that already exist do not have a liner and the existing law does not force companies to use the liner in their old properties. As a result, the contribution that the author explained seems to be really dubious.
Secondly, unlike the power companies who believe that making rigid rules for storing and handling coal ash might decrease the amount of coal ash that is recycling into other products by reducing the consumers who think this recycled products might be dangerous, the lecturer refutes this claim by giving an example of mercury. She states that mercury is a harmful material and it is subjected to strict rules, but these conditions did not stop sufficient recycling process for over fifty years. Therefore, strict rules will not cause recycling process any problem.
At last, The article asserts that these new regulations would force companies to increase the price of electricity because of higher disposal and handling costs whereas the lecturer considers the fact that consequences of these laws are good enough to neglect an increase of the price of electricity. Moreover, this new regulations will add an extra cost about 15 billion dollars which will cause only one percent increase in the price of electricity. Consequently, this claim does not possess a strong support in order to be acceptable.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, however, if, moreover, really, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, whereas, such as, as a result, first of all, 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: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1825.0 1373.03311258 133% => OK
No of words: 352.0 270.72406181 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18465909091 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33147354134 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74566331376 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 145.348785872 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.508522727273 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 551.7 419.366225166 132% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 87.4366042531 49.2860985944 177% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.384615385 110.228320801 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.0769230769 21.698381199 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.1538461538 7.06452816374 172% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.478035747749 0.272083759551 176% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.136720246574 0.0996497079465 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10930039346 0.0662205650399 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.256875021718 0.162205337803 158% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.085665423817 0.0443174109184 193% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 13.3589403974 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 53.8541721854 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.0289183223 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => 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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