integrated essay
reading passage mentioned the benefit of oil company in American economy while the lecture refutes what the author said
The article states that the oil companies benefit the American economy in many ways, and provides three reasons of support. However, the professor explains that these companies are harmful not as the author said, and refutes each of the reasons that mentioned in the reading.
First, the reading claims that the firms of petroleum provide many job opportunities in different ranges, such as: engineer, geologist and etc. The professor refutes this point by saying that such these kinds of firms reduce the work variety to increase their profits.
Second, the articles posits that the taxes that paid by the oil company assist in maintenance of the road and building. However, the professor says that the firms try an alternative method to avoid paying taxes for example by sea. So these firms have nothing to do with roads and buildings.
Third, the reading says that oil and petroleum is the raw material for many industries such as plastic factory and others. The professor opposes by explaining that petroleum is the basic of the pollution and global warming problem, since these substance are used for example to operate cars and other machine which the main source of carbon dioxide that linked to the greenhouse effect.
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Sentence: However, the professor explains that these companies are harmful not as the author said, and refutes each of the reasons that mentioned in the reading.
Description: An adjective is not usually followed by a negator
Suggestion: Refer to harmful and not
Sentence: Second, the articles posits that the taxes that paid by the oil company assist in maintenance of the road and building.
Description: A noun, plural, common is not usually followed by a noun, plural, common
Suggestion: Refer to articles and posits
Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 22 in 30
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 8 12
No. of Words: 203 250
No. of Characters: 1001 1200
No. of Different Words: 115 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.775 4.2
Average Word Length: 4.931 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.352 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 75 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 58 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 29 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 21 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.375 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.816 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.875 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.414 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.711 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.059 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4