Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the points made in the reading passage.
The article states that dams are a beneficial and effective way to generate electricity and provides three reasons of support. However, the professor explains that dams present many drawbacks and refutes each of the author’s reasons.
First, the author claims that dams help to improve the local environment. In contrast, the professor states that dams make the environment suffer. When they are built, water must be diverted. As a result, fish that migrate through the area often lose their way and die. Also, when the dam is finished and the water’s path is restored, it moves more slowly. This hurts fish that need fast moving water to lay their eggs.
Second, the reading asserts that dams release no harmful pollutants during operation. The lecture refutes this point by stating that dams create artificial lakes and that these lakes flood the area around the dam. The plants in the flooded land, therefore, die. This eliminates plants that remove the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, from the air. Also, as these plants decay, they release methane, which is another greenhouse gas.
Third, the author explains that dams create no financial burden for communities. The professor counters this by explaining that the enormous artificial lakes dams create flood the local area, so residents who are affected by this flooding must be relocated. This is not cheap. This, in addition to the cost of construction, makes dams so expensive that they require local tax dollars as aid in order to be built.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
...s each of the author's reasons. First, the author claims that dams help ...
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...fast moving water to lay their eggs. Second, the reading asserts that dams re...
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...ne, which is another greenhouse gas. Third, the author explains that dams cre...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, second, so, therefore, third, in addition, in contrast, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 18.0 30.3222958057 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1285.0 1373.03311258 94% => OK
No of words: 247.0 270.72406181 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.2024291498 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96437052324 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51896704449 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.574898785425 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 376.2 419.366225166 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.0718931202 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 75.5882352941 110.228320801 69% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.5294117647 21.698381199 67% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.47058823529 7.06452816374 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.0748504940302 0.272083759551 28% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0241157490391 0.0996497079465 24% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.028893581839 0.0662205650399 44% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0447934750742 0.162205337803 28% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0195806290276 0.0443174109184 44% => 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: 10.3 13.3589403974 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.73 53.8541721854 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.0289183223 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.29 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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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