summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.
What the reading passage and the lecture both debate on is whether there are realistic solutions to stop the increasing salinity of The Salton Sea. While the passage emphasizes that the three ways to reverse the threatened health of the lake to be practical, the lecture, however, challenges all the points made in the passage.
Firstly, the lecture demonstrates that while installing a desalination facilitiy to remove salt and other materials by heating the water mentioned in the passage can stop the trend, it will cause serious health problems. When the lake water is heated it leaves behind solid materials which include toxic chemical elements in addition to salt. These toxic materials will spread by wind and cause damages on people who breathe in this chemical.
Secondly, the lecture points out that the idea to dilute the lake with water from the ocean through pipelines as stated in the passage will cost too much that the government cannot afford them. There are no enough resources to pay for such long pipelines which will be about a hundred kilometer.
Third, the lecture mentions that the solution argued in the passage to divide the lake into a small area which remains high salinity and a large main area which is diluted by the freshwater will work out only for a short term. The place the lake sits is where the geographical accidents such as earthquakes occur frequently, so that the walls will collapse by the earthquakes and the high salinated water will flow back to the lower salinated area again.
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- Is it as important for older people to learn and study new things as young people to do so 73
- In many places students must arrive very early in the morning to attend school Some people believe that starting the school day early is the best approach to support learning but others believe that starting the school day at a later time in the morning w 71
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 222, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “When” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... it will cause serious health problems. When the lake water is heated it leaves behi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, second, secondly, so, third, while, in addition, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1270.0 1373.03311258 92% => OK
No of words: 258.0 270.72406181 95% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92248062016 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00778971557 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48357382293 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.562015503876 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 397.8 419.366225166 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => 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: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 49.6598305014 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.111111111 110.228320801 128% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.6666666667 21.698381199 132% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06452816374 127% => 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: 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: 0.134561695719 0.272083759551 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0581543538634 0.0996497079465 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0615365406266 0.0662205650399 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0943626752541 0.162205337803 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0801431710158 0.0443174109184 181% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 13.3589403974 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 53.8541721854 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.85 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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