Broccoli is a vegetable that is popular throughout the United States, but it can be grown only in temperate climates with mild summers. Because of this limitation, 90 percent of the broccoli consumed in the United States is grown in the cooler regions of California, on the West Coast. It must be shipped 4:000 kilometers across the entire country to reach the populous East Coast
This situation may soon change, however: scientists are attempting to create a new type of broccoli that can be grown on the East Coast despite the hotter summers there. This project has several potential benefits.
First, growing broccoli on the East Coast and distributing it to nearby grocery stores would lower broccoli costs for consumers Transporting the vegetable from California by truck takes several days, which makes transportation costs high. Growing broccoli locally would reduce transportation costs, so stores could sell broccoli for less money.
Second; the new type of broccoli will probably be much more desirable to consumers than some other new crops. The new broccoli is being created using traditional breeding techniques: researchers are crossbreeding broccoli with other similar plants that have desirable characteristics, such as resistance to hot summers Other new crops—varieties of squash or maize, for example—were created using genetic modification technology. Genetically modified crops are very controversial: many consumers believe they are unsafe and so reject them. However, the new broccoli will not be in that category.
Third, vegetables are healthiest to eat right after they are harvested because they retain most of their beneficial nutrients and vitamins. The Ion ger it takes for a vegetable like broccoli to reach consumers, the fewer nutrients and vitamins it contains. Broccoli that is grown locally can be eaten much sooner after it is cut, which will make this new broccoli healthier for East Coast residents than California broccoli.
In the reading passage, the author concentrates on several benefits of growing broccoli on the East Coast. However, the lecturer casts doubt on these benefits and respectively points out the problems with all the author's assertions.
Firstly, the author argues that growing broccoli on the East Coast will lower transportation costs. Nevertheless, the lecturer challenges this idea and states that locally planting broccoli will indeed save a large amount of money on transportation costs. However, it does not mean that this product will be available to consumers at a lower price since although farmers are able to raise broccoli in hot summers, they can achieve less yield compared to farmers in native areas. As a result, the cost of harvesting crops per hectare will rise, which means the final cost will increase significantly, and farmers cannot save as much money.
Secondly, the author asserts that because of using traditional techniques, these products will be more desirable to consumers. Conversely, the lecturer brings up the fact that even though researchers are making a lot of attempts to produce broccoli using traditional techniques, the public still suspects these products since the company which financially supports this plan is the same one that encouraged breeding agricultural products through genetic modifications in the past. Consequently, the consumers distrust this company and, in turn, its products, so they are likely to reject produced broccoli too.
Finally, the author asserts that local vegetables would be healthier to eat too because of the remaining beneficial nutrients. Nonetheless, the lecturer challenges this claim and clarifies that the fact that local broccoli will provide healthier nutrients is not necessarily a good argument to promote its production. Actually, there are other types of healthy vegetables that are being grown on the East Coast, which have vitamins and nutrients similar to broccoli. They can also be bred not only during the summer but also in the fall and winter, so investing in them is more economical and reasonable.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, consequently, conversely, finally, first, firstly, however, if, nevertheless, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, still, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1767.0 1373.03311258 129% => OK
No of words: 327.0 270.72406181 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.40366972477 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84967380572 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 145.348785872 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.565749235474 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 536.4 419.366225166 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.345866476 49.2860985944 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.923076923 110.228320801 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.1538461538 21.698381199 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.6923076923 7.06452816374 166% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.192977455046 0.272083759551 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0692062832218 0.0996497079465 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0383125769694 0.0662205650399 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107017697959 0.162205337803 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0468278879848 0.0443174109184 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 13.3589403974 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.34 12.2367328918 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.03 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 63.6247240618 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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