The reading passage and the lecture both are about increasing the salinity of inland lank in California. The author of the passage feels that there are three possible ways to reduce the salinity of lake. The lecturer challenges each of the points made by the author. He is of the opinion that these solutions are not feasible.
To begin with, the author argues that the level of salt can be controlled by desalination. The article mentions that evaporating the water would leave the salt and minerals behind and the water steam can again be condensed into liquid. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that desalination will cause many hazardous effects on both the environment and the ecosystem. Additionally, he says that desalination leaves toxic substances behind, which can be distributed in the environment either by the wind or another medium. This can cause dangerous effects on people.
Secondly, the author feels that diluting the lake water with ocean's can reduce the level of salinity. In the article it is said that water from pacific ocean can be mixed with the lake water through piplelines or canals.The lecturer rebuts the point by mentioning the cost of piplines and canal construction. He elaborates on this by bringing up the point that distance between the pacific shore and the lake is more than 1000 km and it would be very expensive for govt to construct these.
Finally, the author posits that salt level can be reduced by making walls in the lake. Moreover, it is stated in the article that walls will divide the lake area, into different parts. A small part of the lake would be the part where salinity can be increased and the salt level will be controlled in the main part. However, the lecturer counters the point by saying that the area is not geologically stable. Additionally, he says that an earthquake can destroy all the walls and mix up the whole lake water again. Therefore, this idea is also not feasible.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...le ways to reduce the salinity of lake. The lecturer challenges each of the points ...
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Line 5, column 89, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e water with oceans can reduce the level of salinity. In the article it is said t...
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Line 5, column 222, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
...lake water through piplelines or canals.The lecturer rebuts the point by mentioning...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.4613686534 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 5.04856512141 297% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 42.0 30.3222958057 139% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1645.0 1373.03311258 120% => OK
No of words: 337.0 270.72406181 124% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88130563798 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28457229495 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60639887147 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.483679525223 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 516.6 419.366225166 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.2437528513 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.5789473684 110.228320801 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7368421053 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.68421052632 7.06452816374 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.248175714868 0.272083759551 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0749070110436 0.0996497079465 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0665331701398 0.0662205650399 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157349542874 0.162205337803 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0534464943913 0.0443174109184 121% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 13.3589403974 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.73 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.81 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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