TPO-22 - Integrated Writing Task Ethanol fuel, made from plants such as corn and sugar cane, has been advocated by some people as an alternative to gasoline in the United States. However, many critics argue that ethanol is not a good replacement for gasol

The author of the reading passage and the professor both discuss whether or not using the ethanol replaces the gasoline is a good idea. The author is against this idea by expressing three theories. However, the professor thinks that the author's reasons contain some defects.

First of all, the author states that when the ethanol burns, it still release the carbon dioxide into the air. Therefore, the ethanol fuel is no better than gasoline. On the contrary, the professor indicates that although burning will release the carbon dioxide, the process of growing the ethanol will absorb the carbon dioxide to get nutrition.

In addition, the author claims that if the ethanol is considered as fuel, the amount of food for animals would reduce. However, the professor asserts that the part of plants used for the fuel is cell wall. And animals don't eat cell wall for food. Therefore, the food still available for animals, even the ethanol is used for the fuel.

Finally, the author raises the point that without the government helping for producers, the ethanol fuel price will increase significantly. On the other hand, the professor refutes this idea by saying that if there are 3 times for people to use the ethanol fuel, the price of the ethanol would drop down 40 percent.

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Average: 6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 66, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
... passage and the professor both discuss whether or not using the ethanol replaces the gasoline...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 71, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'releases'?
Suggestion: releases
...s that when the ethanol burns, it still release the carbon dioxide into the air. Theref...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 219, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... for the fuel is cell wall. And animals dont eat cell wall for food. Therefore, the ...
^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, so, still, therefore, in addition, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 10.0 22.412803532 45% => OK
Preposition: 17.0 30.3222958057 56% => More preposition wanted.
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: 1069.0 1373.03311258 78% => OK
No of words: 216.0 270.72406181 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94907407407 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.83365862548 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.33586264294 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 117.0 145.348785872 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.541666666667 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 322.2 419.366225166 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 15.0 8.23620309051 182% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.6013347145 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.0833333333 110.228320801 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.33333333333 7.06452816374 132% => 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 : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.464532612991 0.272083759551 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.183671813779 0.0996497079465 184% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103910712425 0.0662205650399 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.282208307532 0.162205337803 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.108039405443 0.0443174109184 244% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.13 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 46.0 63.6247240618 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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