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 the 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 article and lecture discussed the possibility to solve the increase of salinity problem in the Salton Lake. The article suggested that there are three possible solutions to eliminate this dilemma. The lecturer, on the other hand, responded that the solutions suggested in the article are unrealistic and not practical.
To begin with, the article stated that the first solution is removing the salts from the lake directly using desalination technique. However, the lecturer argued that desalination process would cause serious problems. She illustrated that desalination method usually leaves behind solid materials, which include toxic materials. According to the lecturer, these toxic materials would threaten the peoples' health.
Second, the article pointed out that another solution is decrease the concentration of salts in the lake's water by diluting it with ocean's water. In contrast, the lecturer claimed that bringing water from the ocean would require constructing long pipelines and canal. The lecturer added that building canal and pipelines need a lot of resources, that government do not have.
Finally, the article suggested that to solve this problem, the lake can be divided into several sections. The article elaborated that the largest section would be controlled to reduce its salinity. The lecturer, on the other hand, stated that this suggested solution is unlikely to work for long period of time. She explained that the area, where the Salton Lake located, witness intense geological activity, such as earthquake. She added that earthquake would destroy the walls between sections, therefore the controlled section will be mixed with other sections.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'peoples'' or 'people's'?
Suggestion: peoples'; people's
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Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, second, so, therefore, in contrast, such as, to begin with, on the other hand
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 : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1430.0 1373.03311258 104% => OK
No of words: 257.0 270.72406181 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.56420233463 5.08290768461 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00390054096 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65662743081 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.568093385214 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 444.6 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 18.1308821873 49.2860985944 37% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 95.3333333333 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1333333333 21.698381199 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.8 7.06452816374 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.159923118204 0.272083759551 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0545981901511 0.0996497079465 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0638686538007 0.0662205650399 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0952115238923 0.162205337803 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0320649545334 0.0443174109184 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 53.8541721854 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.67 12.2367328918 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.58 8.42419426049 114% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 63.6247240618 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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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.