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.
Both the reading passage and the lecturer discuss the posible solution to halt the salinity of the Salton Sea in California. While the reading passage brings up three redemies to stop the salinity, the lecturer finds them impractical and provides some evidence to refute them.
First, the writer argues that by some processes, salt can be removed from the lake. These process done with special desalination facilities in which the water will be evaporated. After the salt remain from this process, the steam would be cooled down and back to the lake. On the other hand, the professor asserts that this process has some severe problems. Other toxic substances in the water would be remain besides the salt. Afterward winds can circulate them in the air and these would be harmful for surrrounding people.
Second, the author declares that the local government can brings ocean water to the lake by constructing pipelines. The ocean water have little salt rather that the lake, so it can be a solution. Conversely, the professor states that construction of pipeline is not be logical and affordable for the government. The mentioned pipelines should have more than thousands kilometer length. Consequently it would not seem functional.
Finally, the writer says that the salinity process can be stoped by dividing the lake in seperate parts by some specific walls. Then the major part would been fresh through flowing small rivers in it. So its salt would be reduced and controled. But the salinity will be continued in small parts. The lecturer asserts that the wall will be ruined by earthquake.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 59, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[2]
Message: The verb 'can' requires the base form of the verb: 'bring'
Suggestion: bring
... declares that the local government can brings ocean water to the lake by constructing...
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Line 5, column 387, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Consequently,
...e more than thousands kilometer length. Consequently it would not seem functional. Finall...
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Line 7, column 155, Rule ID: PRP_PAST_PART[2]
Message: Did you mean 'have been' or 'be'?
Suggestion: have been; be
...ecific walls. Then the major part would been fresh through flowing small rivers in i...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, consequently, conversely, finally, first, if, second, so, then, while, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 5.04856512141 297% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1341.0 1373.03311258 98% => OK
No of words: 264.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07954545455 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03089032464 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56631233914 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 145.348785872 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560606060606 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 405.0 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => 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: 29.3508470444 49.2860985944 60% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 74.5 110.228320801 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.6666666667 21.698381199 68% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.66666666667 7.06452816374 80% => 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 : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.254653456059 0.272083759551 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0805710935905 0.0996497079465 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.057317265275 0.0662205650399 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.143919793281 0.162205337803 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.051895442574 0.0443174109184 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.8 13.3589403974 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.73 53.8541721854 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.0289183223 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.59 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => 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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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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