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 reading passage states that the salinity of Salton Sea can be reduced and controlled and presents some ways for this purpose. However, the professor in lecture casts doubt on the points presented by the reading passage and finds them impractical.
First, considering the reading passage the salt can be removed from the lake's water using facilities which decalinate the water by boiling it at first,separating its salts and chemicals and then cooling it down again. In contrast, the professor in the lecture contradicts the idea and further explains that other chemicals which are removed from water such as Selenium can be dangerous for human life if the wind carry it in the air.
Second, the reading claimes that water from ocean can be tranferred to mix up with the lake's water and reduce its salinity. On the contrary, the professor in the lecture refutes the information presented in the reading passage and makes the point that constructing pipelines or canals for transferring water over 100 kilometers from the ocean can be extremely expensive and requires resources which maybe the local government can not provide.
Third, the author in the reading passage puts forward the idea that walls can be build in the river to devide it into sections. Smaller sections will get saltier but the salinity of the major sections will be reduced and controlled by making the fresh water flew into the major section. On the other hand, the speaker in the lecture contradicts the idea and add that those walls will not work for longtime since geological occurances such as earthquackes may destroy it and then water in the sections will mix up which increases the salinity.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 11, column 151, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , separating
...alinate the water by boiling it at first,separating its salts and chemicals and then coolin...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, second, so, then, third, in contrast, such as, on the contrary, 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: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1436.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 280.0 270.72406181 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12857142857 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09062348924 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61500526788 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 145.348785872 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.492857142857 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 429.3 419.366225166 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => 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: 31.0 21.2450331126 146% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 66.5081448646 49.2860985944 135% => OK
Chars per sentence: 159.555555556 110.228320801 145% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.1111111111 21.698381199 143% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.3333333333 7.06452816374 175% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.181723377784 0.272083759551 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0849325822132 0.0996497079465 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0642166907126 0.0662205650399 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115635064956 0.162205337803 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0414207178558 0.0443174109184 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.3 13.3589403974 137% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.47 53.8541721854 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.0289183223 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.07 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 10.498013245 137% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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