The Salton Sea
The article and the lecture are both about The Salton Sea. While the article's author thinks that there are some methods we can use to solve the problem of lake's saltieness, the lecturer in the listening pessage opposes the author's claims. She believes that these techniques are ineffective and unrealistic.
First, the reading starts by stating that using desalination, we can take off the salt from the lake's water. The professor disagrees with this viewpoint. she mentions that this process will left toxic chimecal meterials that can lead to health problems if humans breath them.
Second, the author suggests that we can reduse the salt amount in the lake by adding sea water from the ocean. On the other hand, the professor points out that this strategy will need to a massive expenses that government can not provide.
Finally, the article states that we divide the lake by builde walls. The lectuere thinks that there are flaws in the author's argument. She holds that these walls would not be efficient, because they can fall down if any earthquick happend.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 155, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: She
...rofessor disagrees with this viewpoint. she mentions that this process will left to...
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Line 3, column 191, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'leave'
Suggestion: leave
...nt. she mentions that this process will left toxic chimecal meterials that can lead ...
^^^^
Line 5, column 198, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'expense'?
Suggestion: expense
...at this strategy will need to a massive expenses that government can not provide. Fin...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 118, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...uere thinks that there are flaws in the authors argument. She holds that these walls wo...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, if, second, so, while, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 18.0 30.3222958057 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 897.0 1373.03311258 65% => OK
No of words: 179.0 270.72406181 66% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01117318436 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.65774358864 4.04702891845 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.35554205735 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 112.0 145.348785872 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.625698324022 0.540411800872 116% => OK
syllable_count: 263.7 419.366225166 63% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => 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: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.6717005827 49.2860985944 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 81.5454545455 110.228320801 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2727272727 21.698381199 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.09090909091 7.06452816374 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.100061196321 0.272083759551 37% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0510614277886 0.0996497079465 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.130003771638 0.0662205650399 196% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0609030837658 0.162205337803 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0690011697087 0.0443174109184 156% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.3 13.3589403974 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.48 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 63.6247240618 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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