The reading and the lecture are both about coal ash, which is waste product of burning coal. The author of the reading believes that there are already strict rules about disposal of coal ash. While the lecturer argues that all the rules are insufficient and need to be modified.
First of all, the author points out that strict regulation already exist which includes the use of liners in coal ash disposal areas like ponds and landfill. The lecturer challenges this point. She says while liners are made only in new landfills and ponds, old once are yet considered. She also mentions that harmful coal ash leaches from these old disposal areas and reaches ground water. Thus, a strict rule should be implemented.
Secondly, the author argues that if new regulations are imposed, people will be suspicious about dangers of coal tar recycled products and will not be buying any of its products, The lecture rebuts this argument by saying that that is misconception, She further illustrated this argument by putting forward the example of mercury byproducts. She says consumer are not concerned about the mercurial by product even though a strict rule is there for its manufacturing and disposal.
Thirdly, the author mentions that new regulation will increase the disposal and handling cost of power companies which in turn results in the increase in the electricity cost of general public, which will not be acceptable. The author, on the other hand, feels that there is only just one percent increase in the cost on companies. she posits that even if there is an increase in cost it worth it for safer and cleaner environment.
The reading and lecture are both about different solutions for protecting birds from the injuries caused by them flying to glass buildings. The author mentions three possible methods to prevent birds from this danger. The lecture, however, disagrees. She believes that none of those methods will not do much benefit to the poor birds.
First of all, the author mentions that one-way glass can save birds as it is transparent only from one direction.The lecturer does not agree with this idea. She points out that one way glass just work like a mirror. As mirror reflects all the image fall on it, and birds cannot understand the concept of reflection. For example, while a mirror reflects the image of a tree, birds think that mirror is an actual tree and just try to fly to it ,and thus get injured.
Secondly, the author mentions that colorful glasses can be another solution by just keeping small opening for people to see through out the designs. The lecturer feels that this idea is also not convincing. She says that birds perceive these openings as small holes and try to fly through them. She also mentioned that this practical problem can be resolved by making extremely small openings, but it may darken the rooms, thus creating discomfort for the people inside the building.
Thirdly, the author mentioned a last idea of setting a magnetic field on those glass buildings. The article notes that all birds have the natural instinct to understand the magnetic field, thus prevent the danger. The lecturer, on the other hand, claims that birds use these mechanism only on long distance migration, and for short distance they fully depend on their vision and brightness of light .
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- A recent study reveals that people, especially young people, are reading far less literature—novels, plays, and poems—than they used to. This is troubling because the trend has unfortunate effects for the reading public, for culture in general, and fo 85
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 219, 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.
...hods to prevent birds from this danger. The lecture, however, disagrees. She believ...
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Line 3, column 114, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
... is transparent only from one direction.The lecturer does not agree with this idea....
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Line 3, column 442, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...an actual tree and just try to fly to it ,and thus get injured. Secondly, the a...
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Line 5, column 125, Rule ID: THROUGH_OUT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'throughout'?
Suggestion: throughout
...keeping small opening for people to see through out the designs. The lecturer feels that th...
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Line 7, column 270, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this mechanism' or 'these mechanisms'?
Suggestion: this mechanism; these mechanisms
...n the other hand, claims that birds use these mechanism only on long distance migration, and fo...
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Line 7, column 379, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ce they fully depend on their vision and brightness of light .
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Line 7, column 400, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...on their vision and brightness of light .
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, while, for example, first of all, on the other hand
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: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1410.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 286.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93006993007 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38040049126 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.562937062937 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 406.8 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.3088184547 49.2860985944 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.0 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0666666667 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.73333333333 7.06452816374 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => 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: 0.0800963691512 0.272083759551 29% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0296219852058 0.0996497079465 30% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0398509235355 0.0662205650399 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0531612251194 0.162205337803 33% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.037975576676 0.0443174109184 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 53.8541721854 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 11.0289183223 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.84 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.