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 author of the reading passage and the professor both discuss the issue of the Salton Sea’s increasing salinity which is threatening the animals there. The author mentions that there are three possible solutions to decrease salinity in the lake. However, the professor discords with the ideas mentioned in the reading passage. The professor offers several reasons to oppose the argument of this article.
First of all, although in the article the author claims that one solution is using the special desalination facilities to directly remove the salt from the lake, the professor indicates that those facilities will leave some solid material in the lake and the toxic materials will generate risks of the people’s health. Therefore, the professor actually believes that building facilities to decrease salinity is not a workable option.
Second, even though the author states that using the water from the ocean to dilute the salinity in the lake is a practical solution, the professor mentions that this solution will create an unbearable financial burden to the local government. Because the government will need to build the pimp line about 100 kilometers long. Thus the professor can conclude that the solution of diluting the salinity is totally out of the government’s budget.
Finally, while the author of the article suggests that dividing the lake into different size sections is a possible way to control the lake’s salinity, the professor points out that this method must construct many walls. However, these walls may break down due to earthquakes. As a result, the professor contends that building walls to dividing the lake to control salinity is not a long-term solution.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, finally, first, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, thus, while, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1440.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 271.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31365313653 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05734859645 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6355492814 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.535055350554 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 444.6 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 1.25165562914 399% => Less 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: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 77.3643526151 49.2860985944 157% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.0 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5833333333 21.698381199 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.75 7.06452816374 124% => 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 : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.172628899021 0.272083759551 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.062657936889 0.0996497079465 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0480002491806 0.0662205650399 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107236355233 0.162205337803 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00829636171094 0.0443174109184 19% => 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: 14.9 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.92 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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