Because of climate change more and more land that was once used to grow crops or provide food for animals is turning to dry unusable desert land There are many proposals about how to stop this process known as desertification A number of proposals involve

The reading and the lecture talk about the device used to stop desertification and help the trees to grow easily. The author of the reading feels that this device is useless. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. She believes that the box-shaped device can stop desertification.

To begin with, the author argues that using these devices would be an expensive process and need a lot of money. The article mentions that growing many trees using these devices will require millions of dollars. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. She claims that the farmers can reuse the devices when the trees grow. Additionally, she says that reusing these devices will save a lot of money.

Secondly, the writer suggests that the local people will not look after the devices. In the article, it is said that the box-shaped devices need frequent maintenance, and local people do not have the motivation to do it. The lecturer refutes this by mentioning that this problem can be solved by possible rewards for the people who take care of the devices. She elaborates on this by bringing up the point that the local people can use these devices for their vegetables and trees.

Finally, the author posits that these devices have limited ability and it is not a convenient way to stop desertification. Moreover, in the article, it is stated that the devices cannot survive in harsh environments. In contrast, the lecturer's position is that the trees and the devices can resist harsh conditions. She notes that the trees can grow long roots which provide the ability to reach water in the deep ground then the trees can thrive.

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Average: 0.3 (1 vote)
Essay Categories

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 176, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ding feels that this device is useless. The lecturer challenges the claims made by ...
^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, if, look, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, in contrast, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 5.04856512141 277% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1374.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 279.0 270.72406181 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9247311828 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08696624509 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59349152225 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.480286738351 0.540411800872 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 422.1 419.366225166 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => 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: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 28.1154318596 49.2860985944 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 80.8235294118 110.228320801 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.4117647059 21.698381199 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.88235294118 7.06452816374 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0878791716999 0.272083759551 32% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0341298012807 0.0996497079465 34% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0356460488286 0.0662205650399 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0614025816515 0.162205337803 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0229740688086 0.0443174109184 52% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.9 13.3589403974 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.96 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.

Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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