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The author of the reading states that dams represent the most beneficial and effective forms of electricity creation today and provides three reason of support. The professor, however, expresses that more research is needed to prove the benefits of dams and also construction of dams pose major drawbacks that the author did not consider. He casts doubts on the arguments made in the article by opposing each of them.

First, the reading claims that dams have positive impacts on the environment. The professor refutes this point by avering that the environment suffers from dams. He mentions that during the construction of this structures the water must be diverted which pose a great difficulty for migrating fish. THe professor adds that after dams are finished, the the water flows slower than before which in turn affects the process of laying fish eggs and reproduction of fish negatively.

Second, the article posits that the power generated from a dam produces no harmful pollutants. The professor, by contrast, asserts that dams create artificial lakes that not only leads to death of dense vegetation but it releases a global warming gas named methane. Dams also destroy plant life which remove carbon dioxide naturally.

Third, the reading argues that dams create no financial burden for the community. The professor debunks this claim by declaring that people suffer financial issues caused by dams. As mentioned before, dams create enormous artificial lakes that leads to local residents relocation which is not cheap practice. He states that dam construction would not be feasible without government aid which is collected by people taxes.

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Average: 8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 207, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...entions that during the construction of this structures the water must be diverted w...
^^^^
Line 3, column 349, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...ssor adds that after dams are finished, the the water flows slower than before which in...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 349, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...ssor adds that after dams are finished, the the water flows slower than before which in...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 260, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'residents'' or 'resident's'?
Suggestion: residents'; resident's
...us artificial lakes that leads to local residents relocation which is not cheap practice....
^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, so, third

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1400.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 264.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.30303030303 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03089032464 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61731186445 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 145.348785872 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.594696969697 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 415.8 419.366225166 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.1772528753 49.2860985944 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.0 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8571428571 21.698381199 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.42857142857 7.06452816374 49% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.139510427202 0.272083759551 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0485649779779 0.0996497079465 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0289372795813 0.0662205650399 44% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0870610958365 0.162205337803 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0116744243588 0.0443174109184 26% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.46 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.02 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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