Hail—pieces of ice that form and fall from clouds instead of snow or rain—has always been a problem for farmers in some areas of the United States. Hail pellets can fall with great force and destroy crops in the field. Over the last few decades, a met

The author of the passage discuss a way to prevent crop damage due to hail in America which is cloud seeding. The author states that there has been strong evidence to support cloud seeding method. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author by stating the ineffectiveness of this method by giving several reasons.

Firstly, author claims that the lab experiment demonstrated the when silver iodide is sprayed on storm cloud it is changed to harmless rain or snow. This is challenged by the lecturer. She argues that in reality silver iodide can precipitate even snow and rain. This can cause severe trouble for cultivation in drought prone area.

Secondly, the author posits that there is supporting evidence for cloud seeding in Asia and other countries. The lecturer however, rebuts this statement by mentioning that study was conducted in polluted urban areas of Asia where the air pollutant can favorably cause cloud seeding and this cannot be similar to a unpolluted area of America.

Thirdly, author provides local study results of cloud seeding in some areas of Central America. The area where cloud seeding was used had less damage when compared to other areas. The lecturer disagrees to this point by explaining that east, south and north of that area had less damage to hail due the natural variation of whether and not due to cloud seeding.

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Average: 6.8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 198, 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.
...idence to support cloud seeding method. The lecturer challenges the claims made by ...
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Line 5, column 172, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rebuts this statement by mentioning that study was conducted in polluted urban ar...
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Line 5, column 314, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...d seeding and this cannot be similar to a unpolluted area of America. Thirdly...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1145.0 1373.03311258 83% => OK
No of words: 228.0 270.72406181 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02192982456 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.88582923847 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4607843002 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 123.0 145.348785872 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.539473684211 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 351.0 419.366225166 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.5466347646 49.2860985944 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.4166666667 110.228320801 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 7.06452816374 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.147040737661 0.272083759551 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0592944690191 0.0996497079465 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0302817217374 0.0662205650399 46% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0932362940774 0.162205337803 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0171513412089 0.0443174109184 39% => 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: 11.7 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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