Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the specific points made in the reading passage.
According to the reading passage, the Salton Sea's salinity is increasing because of
faster evaporation rate compared to that of replaced water, which results in local
distinction of populations of fish and birds. Three solutions are proposed for preventing
the salinity increase, none of which is realistic and practical enough to solve the problem.
First, desalination facilities which turn the water from liquid to vapor form,
separate it from the salt and cool the vapor down to form salt-free water again, can be
used to reduce the salinity; however, although this process reduces the amount of salt in
water, it gives rise to other problems. For example, the material which is left consists of
salt and other chemicals like selenium which is detrimental to people's health, and takes
a drastic toll on people's lives in case they breathe it in.
Second, enlisting ocean water, which contains less salt, and adding it to the lake
water seem to solve the problem of increased salinity of the Salton Sea. Nevertheless,
there are some problems associated with this procedure as well. The expenses of
constructing pipelines and canals are astronomically high so the government may not
disburse such huge amount of money to subsidize the construction project. Moreover,
the nearest shore of the Pacific Ocean is a hundred kilometers away from the lake, and
building such long canals is not economically reasonable.
Another solution is building some walls which separate different parts of the lake
so that water with high salinity do not get mixed with the freshwater from small rivers.
The downside of this solution is that it cannot be considered as a long term solution due
to the fact that the region is geologically very active, which means that strong
earthquakes occur frequently. As a result, the first earthquake can eradicate the whole
wall system, and separated water will mix back again.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, moreover, nevertheless, second, so, well, for example, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1629.0 1373.03311258 119% => OK
No of words: 311.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23794212219 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19942759058 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7142035062 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 145.348785872 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.581993569132 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 499.5 419.366225166 119% => 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: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 55.4846416096 49.2860985944 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 148.090909091 110.228320801 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.2727272727 21.698381199 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.27272727273 7.06452816374 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 23.0 4.09492273731 562% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.0218207795441 0.272083759551 8% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.00785856013192 0.0996497079465 8% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0106654893443 0.0662205650399 16% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.00641568315165 0.162205337803 4% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0141445306891 0.0443174109184 32% => 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: 17.4 13.3589403974 130% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 53.8541721854 80% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.0289183223 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.49 8.42419426049 113% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 63.6247240618 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 10.7273730684 177% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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