The Salton sea in California
There is a salty body of water inland, far away from the Pacific Ocean, in California state. The water in this sea vaporizes faster than rainwater refills it, increasing its salinity. These have raised concerns regarding the well-being of the local fish or birds. The passage proposes three solutions to help restore its salinity, but the professor challenges these measures.
First, the text proposes the construction of desalination facilities. These facilities will vaporize water, leaving toxic materials behind. The evaporated water that is less salty can then be accumulated and returned to the sea. The professor says this process will be more harmful to the local people. According to her, when the salt or the toxic material left behind is mixed with the air, people will breathe it, harming their health.
Second, we can construct pipelines or canals to transfer ocean water to the sea. Since seawater contains less salt, it can help in decreasing the sea’s salinity. The lecturer opposes this idea by suggesting that this measurement is not economically viable. The distance to the ocean is 100 km, and the local government does not have enough resources to construct these facilities.
Third, we can construct walls to separate bodies of water. Freshwater from rainfall can then be allowed to particular bodies, resulting in a salinity decrease. According to the professor, this proposition is unlikely to be helpful in the long run because of the local geological challenges. This area is known for its geological activities, and earthquakes happen regularly. In case of earthquakes, the constructed walls will collapse, and the sea will return to its past state.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, regarding, second, so, then, third, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 12.0772626932 25% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1419.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 269.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2750929368 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0498419064 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80712717266 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.587360594796 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 434.7 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 20.8270360853 49.2860985944 42% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 78.8333333333 110.228320801 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.9444444444 21.698381199 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.11111111111 7.06452816374 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.27373068433 304% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0998134190862 0.272083759551 37% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0324348582293 0.0996497079465 33% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0460734365968 0.0662205650399 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0654884941826 0.162205337803 40% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0274607845487 0.0443174109184 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.27 53.8541721854 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.8 11.0289183223 80% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.75 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.03 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 63.6247240618 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, regarding, second, so, then, third, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 12.0772626932 25% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1419.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 269.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2750929368 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0498419064 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80712717266 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.587360594796 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 434.7 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 20.8270360853 49.2860985944 42% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 78.8333333333 110.228320801 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.9444444444 21.698381199 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.11111111111 7.06452816374 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.27373068433 304% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0998134190862 0.272083759551 37% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0324348582293 0.0996497079465 33% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0460734365968 0.0662205650399 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0654884941826 0.162205337803 40% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0274607845487 0.0443174109184 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.27 53.8541721854 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.8 11.0289183223 80% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.75 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.03 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 63.6247240618 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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.