The Salton Sea in California is actually a salty inland lake. The level of salt in the lake's water—what scientists call its salinity—has been increasing steadily for years because the lake's water is evaporating faster than it is being replaced by rainfall or rivers. If the trend continues, the lake's water will soon become so salty that the lake will be unable to support fish and bird populations. The lake would then become essentially a dead zone. Fortunately, there are several ways to reverse the trend that is threatening the lake's health.
One option is direct removal of salt from the lake's water in special desalination facilities. Water from the lake would be pumped into the facilities and heated. This would cause the water to evaporate into steam, while salt and other materials dissolved in the water would be left behind. The steam would then be cooled down and returned to the lake as salt-free water. Gradually, the high salt levels would be reduced and the lake’s overall health would be restored.
Another possible solution is to dilute the salt level in the lake with water from the ocean. Since water in the Pacific Ocean is 20 percent less salty than water in the lake, bringing ocean water into the lake would decrease the lake’s salinity. The ocean water could be delivered through pipelines or canals.
Yet another solution would be to control the lake's salinity by constructing walls to divide the lake into several sections. In the smaller sections, salinity would be allowed to increase. However, in the main and largest section, salinity would be reduced and controlled by, among other things, directing all the freshwater from small rivers in the area to flow into that main section of the lake
The reading and the lecture are both about the methods to decrease the salinity level in the Salton Sea in California. The author of the reading feels that there are three ways to control the salinity level problem. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. She is of the opinion that the solutions in the article are not practical.
to begin with, the author argues that the desalination method would reduce the level of salinity in the lake. The article mentions that the water from the lake would be evaporated and easily separated from the salt particles. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. She claims that a desalination solution would cause serious problems. Additionally, she says that when the water is pumped and evaporated in the desalination process, the solids that remained are toxic chemicals such as Selenium.
secondly, the writer suggests that using ocean water would be a perfect solution to dilute the salts in the lake. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning that this method demands high resources. She elaborates on this point by bringing up the point that bringing the water from the Pacific ocean requires pipeline construction.
Finally, the author posits that the third solution is dividing the lake into many sections by walls and try to control the salinity in the large portions. In contrast, the lecturer's position is that this method will not work very long due to the intense geological activities. She notes that the walls would collapse due to the earthquake.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: To
...ions in the article are not practical. to begin with, the author argues that the ...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Secondly
... are toxic chemicals such as Selenium. secondly, the writer suggests that using ocean w...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, third, in contrast, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1285.0 1373.03311258 94% => OK
No of words: 254.0 270.72406181 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05905511811 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99216450694 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61030747756 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 400.5 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.8454969009 49.2860985944 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.6666666667 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.9333333333 21.698381199 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.06666666667 7.06452816374 86% => 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 : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.197410846813 0.272083759551 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0631728933202 0.0996497079465 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0732786963291 0.0662205650399 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114744895927 0.162205337803 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0465151003974 0.0443174109184 105% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.77 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => 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: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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