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 reduced and the lake’s overall health would be restored.
Another possible solution id 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 would 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 revers in the area to flow into that main section of the lake.
The reading passage proposes three plans on decreasing the sanity in salton sea in California, in order to avoid the extinction of fish and birds. However, the instructor thinks that none of them is practical or realistic.
According to the instructor, even though the desalination can seperate water vapor from other solid substances, the materials that were left behind contain toxic chemicals, which may have a negtive impact on people's health once these chemicals are spreaded by wind.
The dillution of using sea water pumping through pipelines or canals is also unrealistic. The nearest seashore from the lake is over a thousand kilometers and the government does not have enough resources or money to fund such an expensive construction plan.
Third, since there are a lot of intense geological activities occuring around salton sea, the walls would be damaged once an earthquack happens. Thus, even though building walls can seperate the walls, it is can only last for a short time.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, so, third, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 12.0772626932 25% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 5.0 22.412803532 22% => OK
Preposition: 20.0 30.3222958057 66% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 841.0 1373.03311258 61% => OK
No of words: 161.0 270.72406181 59% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22360248447 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.56210296601 4.04702891845 88% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71068026669 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 117.0 145.348785872 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.726708074534 0.540411800872 134% => OK
syllable_count: 256.5 419.366225166 61% => 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: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 13.0662251656 54% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.2410125399 49.2860985944 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.142857143 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.57142857143 7.06452816374 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.112998863286 0.272083759551 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0448732490441 0.0996497079465 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0268561897711 0.0662205650399 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0592386381275 0.162205337803 37% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0253236187399 0.0443174109184 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.3589403974 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.39 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 47.0 63.6247240618 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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