The reading passage states three reasons that ethanol is not a good replacement for gasoline, whereas the lecture points out that the ethanol is a good alternative to gasoline.
Firstly, the author insists that using ethanol cannot solve global warming for burning it will also release carbon dioxide which is a greenhouse gas. The professor, however, argues that it is true burning ethanol will release carbon dioxide. But the ethanol is extracted from plants, and growing plants can counteract the release of carbon dioxide since plants can absorb carbon dioxide and remove it from the atmosphere.
Secondly, the reading deems that the available plants used in other fields may reduce. To satisfy ten percent of fuel needed requires sixty percent of corn grown to produce ethanol, thus the house-stock will lose appreciable source of food. In contrast, the speaker reckons that we can use cereal which is a main component of cell wall to produce ethanol. While the cereal will not be eaten by animals, the available source of food for animals will not decrease.
Lastly, the author says that ethanol cannot compete with gasoline on price. And without government's financial support the price of ethanol will increase drastically. On the contrary, the professor rebuts it by saying that the support of government is not always needed. If there are more people buy ethanol, then the production of it will increase, as a result, the price of ethanol decline. In addition, the price of ethanol can decrease forty percent, if the productions of it are threefold than it is now.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, then, thus, whereas, while, in addition, in contrast, as a result, it is true, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 5.04856512141 277% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1323.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 260.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08846153846 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01553427287 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53174811557 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557692307692 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 410.4 419.366225166 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.8957471038 49.2860985944 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.769230769 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 21.698381199 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.0 7.06452816374 184% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.461458183015 0.272083759551 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.159902697735 0.0996497079465 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0640236554752 0.0662205650399 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.264420426744 0.162205337803 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0127354959671 0.0443174109184 29% => 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: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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