Advantages of Airships over other aircrafts. Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they
cast doubt on the specific theories presented in the reading passage
The reading passage introduces the topic of airships. Specifically, the writer discusses the advantages of airships over airplanes and helicopters and feels that airships will come back into being widely used. The speaker in the listening passage disagrees. He believes that there are several reasons why airships won’t be widely used again and he attacks each of the claims made in the reading.
To begin with, the author posits an advantage of airships is that for vertical lift, they use a ballon that floats rather than an engine so, airships use less fuel than typical aircraft making their fuel cost more economical. The speaker, on the other hand, refutes this claim by saying that airships use special lighter-than-air gases to project vertically and the two common gases used are hydrogen and helium. He further says that hydrogen catches fire easily and there are tragic records of accidents that occurred in the past and this makes hydrogen unsafe. Also, safer helium gas is expensive and cannot lift airships much higher than hydrogen. So, with these setbacks on the gases, the speaker believes that airships cannot take the place of other aircraft completely.
Another advantage of the airship as claimed by the author is that airships can be used in hard-to-reach locations as they can lift off and land vertically and still be able to carry heavy logs from forests to distribution centers. Again, the speaker believes that there are flaws in the writer’s logic. He holds that for an airship to be able to come down to the ground and lift tree logs it needs to be kept steady and it is difficult to keep airships steady because of their weight and it is often being disturbed by the wind.
Finally, the author brings his argument to a close by saying that airships could be used to replace satellites since they can also rise high above the surface and stay there without refueling for a significant amount of time. Not surprisingly, the speaker takes issue with this claim, and he contends that airships can only rise at a height of about 13km above the surface and there is usually very strong wind at that height and for the spaceship to withstand the wind, it will have to spend a lot of its fuel and by this, it means the airship will be coming down often to refuel and go back up. Therefore, the speaker believes that airships cannot take the place of satellites.
In conclusion, both the writer and the lecturer hold conflicting views about airships and it is clear that they will have a problem finding a common ground on this issue.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 560, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[9]
Message: The adverb 'often' is usually put before the verb 'down'.
Suggestion: often down
...is, it means the airship will be coming down often to refuel and go back up. Therefore, th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, if, so, still, therefore, in conclusion, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.4613686534 191% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 21.0 7.30242825607 288% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 22.412803532 183% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 60.0 30.3222958057 198% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2124.0 1373.03311258 155% => OK
No of words: 442.0 270.72406181 163% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.80542986425 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58517132086 4.04702891845 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46475119726 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 145.348785872 150% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.493212669683 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 644.4 419.366225166 154% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 81.9714126998 49.2860985944 166% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.75 110.228320801 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.625 21.698381199 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8125 7.06452816374 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.195782557244 0.272083759551 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0709726086238 0.0996497079465 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0412226206808 0.0662205650399 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118705895553 0.162205337803 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0441826654456 0.0443174109184 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 53.8541721854 98% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 11.0289183223 114% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 63.6247240618 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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