The graph below shows trends in US meat and poultry consumption.

Essay topics:

The graph below shows trends in US meat and poultry consumption.

The line graph presents four types of meat and poultry consumed in the United States between 1955 and 2012.

It is clear that the consumption of beef was more than others between 1955 and 1976; it achieved the highest amount of 90 pounds in 1976. At the same period of time, the demand of pork was unstable and bottomed up with less than 40 pounds in 1976. Looking at the more detail, the consumption of broilers and turkey started to show up since 1961. The consumption of turkey rose to 10 pounds per person every year , until hitting a plateau at around 13 pounds after 1991.

Between 1976 and 1982, the consumption of beef started to plummet nearly to reach 20 pounds while the demand of pork increased by at least 10 pounds. The consumption of broilers exceeded the amount of pork, with figure at around 50 pounds in 1994; in 2010, it overtook the consumption of beef by reaching around 60 pounds. After 2009, consumption trend of each type of meat reached a plateau and started to dip later.

As a whole, the total demand of meat and poultry rose from 110 pounds to 180 pounds between 1955 and 2012.

Votes
Average: 5.6 (1 vote)

Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 151, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
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Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
... rose to 10 pounds per person every year , until hitting a plateau at around 13 po...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
look, so, while, at least

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 7.0 43% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 6.8 132% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 3.15609756098 32% => OK
Pronoun: 4.0 5.60731707317 71% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 33.7804878049 145% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 3.97073170732 176% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 915.0 965.302439024 95% => OK
No of words: 201.0 196.424390244 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.55223880597 4.92477711251 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.76529505866 3.73543355544 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.27794327974 2.65546596893 86% => OK
Unique words: 103.0 106.607317073 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512437810945 0.547539520022 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 236.7 283.868780488 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.45097560976 83% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 1.53170731707 196% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.33902439024 161% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.07073170732 280% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 3.36585365854 178% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 8.94146341463 101% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.4926829268 98% => OK
Sentence length SD: 24.7481137827 43.030603864 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 101.666666667 112.824112599 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3333333333 22.9334400587 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.77777777778 5.23603664747 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 1.69756097561 118% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 3.70975609756 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 1.13902439024 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.09268292683 49% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0915116710164 0.215688989381 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0492926704645 0.103423049105 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0622091478517 0.0843802449381 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0836262809543 0.15604864568 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0604177256405 0.0819641961636 74% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 13.2329268293 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 82.98 61.2550243902 135% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 10.3012195122 70% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.41 11.4140731707 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.01 8.06136585366 87% => OK
difficult_words: 29.0 40.7170731707 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.4329268293 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.9970731707 98% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.0658536585 99% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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