decreasing salinity of the lake
The reading and the lecture are both about the possibility of controlling the salinity of the Salton Sea lake. Actually, the author provides three solutions in order to reduce the salinity level of the lake and save the fish and birds lives. On the other hand, the professor is not convinced of the solutions presented in the reading. Point to the other side of the story, the speaker is of the opinion that these approaches are not feasible and present drawbacks.
To begin, the author argues that it is possible to remove some salt by desalination. To be more specific, water is heated and then evaporated in this process. Later, the solid material remains and be removed from water. This specific argument is challenged by the lecture. According to the speaker, this solid material that has been remained includes poisonous chemical components such as Selenium other than salt which is toxic for human. Furthermore, she asserts that if this component penetrates the air and be inhaled by human, it will poison them.
Secondly, the writer disputes that the pacific ocean, which contains less salt, can be moved and added to the lake's water and help to reduce the lake's salinity. The lecturer, on the other hand, opposes this notion by asserting that although this method will decrease the salinity, however, bringing ocean water to fill the lake requires constructing canals and pipelines as mentioned in the passage. Since the shoreline is very long, the government does not have enough budget in order to construct such an expensive facility in long distances.
Finally, the writer averts that controlling the salinity is, also, possible by constructing walls to separate different parts of the lake. To delineate, salinity can be decreased in vaster parts by adding nearby stream water. Contrastly, the professor's stance is that this solution, in spite of being feasible, will not be practical for a prolonged time. Additionally, the lecturer states that geological hazards such as sever earthquakes damages the walls and the refined water will mix back into salty water. Therefore, hardly is this solution practical for a long span of time.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 146, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'lakes'' or 'lake's'?
Suggestion: lakes'; lake's
... the lakes water and help to reduce the lakes salinity. The lecturer, on the other ha...
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Line 4, column 242, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'professors'' or 'professor's'?
Suggestion: professors'; professor's
...ng nearby stream water. Contrastly, the professors stance is that this solution, in spite ...
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Line 4, column 522, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[4]
Message: The adverb 'hardly' is usually put after the verb 'is'.
Suggestion: is hardly
...l mix back into salty water. Therefore, hardly is this solution practical for a long span...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, finally, furthermore, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, such as, in spite of, 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: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1797.0 1373.03311258 131% => OK
No of words: 353.0 270.72406181 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09065155807 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33454660006 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63775431669 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 145.348785872 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.555240793201 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 567.9 419.366225166 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 2.5761589404 311% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.9566320517 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.8333333333 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6111111111 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.16666666667 7.06452816374 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.218634795508 0.272083759551 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0636425068584 0.0996497079465 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0924548256469 0.0662205650399 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136000746039 0.162205337803 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0799823916295 0.0443174109184 180% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.3589403974 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.45 8.42419426049 112% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 63.6247240618 171% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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