"Over the past year, the Crust Copper Company (CCC) has purchased over 10,000 square miles of land in the tropical nation of West Fredonia. Mining copper on this land will inevitably result in pollution and, since West Fredonia is the home of several endangered animal species, in environmental disaster. But such disasters can be prevented if consumers simply refuse to purchase products that are made with CCC's copper unless the company abandons its mining plans."
Ever since the industrial revolution, the usage of metals as raw materials has been on a rise. These metals are generally mined from the ground and is accompanied by a huge amount of pollution and environmental hazards.
The letter to the editor on copper mining in West Fredonia has several underlying assumptions. For one, the CCC had acquired the land atleast a year prior to the date of the letter. One year is a sufficient period of time to investigate the ill-effects of the copper mining done by the company. Yet, there seems to be no serious allegations against the company regarding environmental hazards committed by them. Even the letter states or assumes an impending pollution that can be caused due to mining and is not clear about the present status.
The letter does not precisely mention the location of the land acquired.The land that may not even be in the vicinity of a forest or wildlife sanctuary that is home to the endangered species mentioned in the letter. This might actually may not be a huge cause of concern in terms of harming the natural habitat of the animals.
The letter does not state clearly about the customers of CCC. There is no mention whether CCC supplies the copper to West Fredonian markets or whether it sells it internationally. Expecting an international market to abandon copper purchase from CCC due to environmental hazards is impractical.
Thus, careful evaluation of each of the above factors will help in concluding whether the mining activity carried out by CCC should be brought to a standstill or allowed to continue.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 268 350
No. of Characters: 1285 1500
No. of Different Words: 145 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.046 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.795 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.798 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 99 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 73 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 43 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.615 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.011 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.308 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.343 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.63 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.081 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 208, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...of the letter. One year is a sufficient period of time to investigate the ill-effects of the c...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 72, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
...ntion the location of the land acquired.The land that may not even be in the vicini...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, if, may, regarding, still, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 13.6137724551 22% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 28.8173652695 28% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1311.0 2260.96107784 58% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 267.0 441.139720559 61% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.91011235955 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04229324003 4.56307096286 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8823138814 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 204.123752495 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.550561797753 0.468620217663 117% => OK
syllable_count: 413.1 705.55239521 59% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.4730751928 57.8364921388 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.846153846 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5384615385 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.15384615385 5.70786347227 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.232883539085 0.218282227539 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0786672968791 0.0743258471296 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0648116172152 0.0701772020484 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106506304822 0.128457276422 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0609750710772 0.0628817314937 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 14.3799401198 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.89 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 98.500998004 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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