The issue both the reading and the listening focus on is the necessity for coal ash regulations. However, the listening casts doubt at three main points.
At the first point, the reading states that there already exist effective environmental regulations. Companies are required to use liner when building new ponds or landfills. According to the listening, liner is required only when building new ponds or landfills but not required for old ponds or landfills, which cause damage and contaminate the drinking water. Thus, the current liner regulation is insufficient.
At the second point, the reading mentions that strict rules for storing and handling coal discourage the recycling of coal ash. However, the listening argues that another hazardous material, mercury, has been successfully regulated about 50 years, and there have been no concerns by the people.
At the last point, the reading believes that costs for disposal and handling coal ash would significantly increase if new regulations are created, resulting in increase in the price of electricity. On the contrary, the listening confirms that while the cost would increase, it is well worth it. The cost would be approximately 15 billion dollars, and while this is seemingly a lot, it only increases one percent of the household electricity cost.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, second, thus, well, while, on the contrary
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 : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 22.412803532 40% => OK
Preposition: 15.0 30.3222958057 49% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1117.0 1373.03311258 81% => OK
No of words: 208.0 270.72406181 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.37019230769 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.79765784423 4.04702891845 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85710843373 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Unique words: 125.0 145.348785872 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.600961538462 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 329.4 419.366225166 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => 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: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.7345652616 49.2860985944 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.545454545 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9090909091 21.698381199 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.09090909091 7.06452816374 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.407685345185 0.272083759551 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.143540535983 0.0996497079465 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.119893449997 0.0662205650399 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.223917196443 0.162205337803 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0594826648475 0.0443174109184 134% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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