The graph below shows waste recycling rates in the U.S. from 1960 to 2011.

Essay topics:

The graph below shows waste recycling rates in the U.S. from 1960 to 2011.

The line graph illustrates the percentage of waste being recycled and the amount of waste recovery in tons in the US between 1960 and 2011.
In general terms, total waste recovery increased. However, from 1985, it skyrocketed.
It is clear from the line graph shows that the percentage of recycling remained steady over the first 10 years from 1960. The figure rose gently over the next 15 years to 10,1% in 1985. On the other hand, the amount of garbage tripled during the same period from 5.6 million tons at the begining of the period to 16,7 million tons in 1985.
In contrast, between 1985 to 2011, the proportion of recycling increased significantly from 10,1% to reached the peak of 34,7% in 2011. In addition, the amount of waste material being recycled rose dramatically in this period and it peaked at 86,9 million tons in 2011.

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Average: 5.6 (1 vote)

Comments

Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, in addition, in contrast, in general, on the other hand

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 : 3.0 6.8 44% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 1.0 3.15609756098 32% => OK
Pronoun: 6.0 5.60731707317 107% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 33.7804878049 104% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 3.97073170732 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 696.0 965.302439024 72% => OK
No of words: 146.0 196.424390244 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.76712328767 4.92477711251 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.47606760199 3.73543355544 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45931427113 2.65546596893 93% => OK
Unique words: 75.0 106.607317073 70% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.513698630137 0.547539520022 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 193.5 283.868780488 68% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.45097560976 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 1.53170731707 131% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.33902439024 115% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 3.36585365854 178% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 8.94146341463 89% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.4926829268 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.5631725199 43.030603864 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.0 112.824112599 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.25 22.9334400587 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.375 5.23603664747 179% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 3.70975609756 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 1.13902439024 263% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.09268292683 24% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.348233112186 0.215688989381 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.151297271851 0.103423049105 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.118150270059 0.0843802449381 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.217085236251 0.15604864568 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0764499596177 0.0819641961636 93% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.2 13.2329268293 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 78.59 61.2550243902 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.8 10.3012195122 66% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 11.4140731707 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.12 8.06136585366 88% => OK
difficult_words: 24.0 40.7170731707 59% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.4329268293 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.9970731707 84% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 11.0658536585 63% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?

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More content wanted.
Minimum 250 words wanted.

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