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 main topic of both the reading and the lecture is about the salinity of the Salton Sea in California. The reading states that there are several ways for decreasing the salinity in the lake and provides three examples of support. However, the lecturer explains that there are problems with the argument and categorically refuts each of them, citing that they are not realistic but also impractical.
To begin with, the author argues that the salinity could be removed directly from the lake's water by pumping it into the desalination facility. Conversely, this specific argument is challenged by the professor. She explains that this action might cause serious problems. Additionally, she says that when the water evaporates, it leaves solid materials, and these solid materials is not only salt and might contain toxic components that cause a health problem if people breathe them when they are free in the air.
Secondly, the writer suggests that they could decrease the salinity by mixing the lake's water with water from the ocean. The lecturer, However, rebuts this by mentioning that using pipelines and canals for this matter, will cost local government a fortune and they do not have the resources to do so. Moreover, she mentions that the distance between the lake and the ocean is about 100 kilometers and for such a long distance, the cost of pipelines is very expensive.
Finally, the reading posits that the lake could be divided into several sections and the core and largest part would be less salty by controlling the freshwater of small rivers. On the contrary, the lecturer states that this action would not last very long because it would affect by geological activities like earthquakes. He notes that if an earth quick happens, these sections will collapse and the water from the main part of the lake will mix back in with the others.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, finally, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, on the contrary, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1565.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 312.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01602564103 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20279927342 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51353992841 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 145.348785872 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525641025641 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 477.9 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.7944011216 49.2860985944 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.384615385 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 21.698381199 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.23076923077 7.06452816374 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => 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: 0.210902809086 0.272083759551 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0745222045279 0.0996497079465 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0635907427905 0.0662205650399 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12473078444 0.162205337803 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0114057890938 0.0443174109184 26% => 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: 14.2 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.03 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 63.6247240618 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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