TPO-41 - Integrated Writing Task Burning coal in power plants produces a waste product called coal ash, a material that contains small amounts of potentially harmful chemicals Environmentalists in the United States are concerned about the damage such harm

The reading and listening materials debate on whether the US government should create some stricter regulations for handling coal ash. The reading passage does not hope to make such regulations and gives three reasons, which are contradicted by the following listening passage.

Firstly, the reading passage points out that such effective regulations already exist. However, the speaker believes that's not sufficient because these companies only use liner in new pond or landfill, nevertheless, there are lots of old ponds without liner. They may pollute drinking water as well. We should prevent such harmful situation.

Secondly, the reading passage thinks that strict rules will discourage the recycling, while the speaker takes mercury as an example. She points out that it is a dangerous element and handled strictly as well, but such recycled mercury products still attracts lots of consumers.

Thirdly, the reading passage believes that new regulations would increase the costs for the power companies and enhance the price of electricity. However, the speaker points out that the average price of electricity will increase only 1 percent, and people can accept it.

Votes
Average: 7.6 (1 vote)
Essay Categories

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 118, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: that's
...dy exist. However, the speaker believes thats not sufficient because these companies ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, may, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, still, third, thirdly, well, while

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 10.4613686534 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 12.0 30.3222958057 40% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1001.0 1373.03311258 73% => OK
No of words: 181.0 270.72406181 67% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.53038674033 5.08290768461 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.66791821706 4.04702891845 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63530699417 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 120.0 145.348785872 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.662983425414 0.540411800872 123% => OK
syllable_count: 297.9 419.366225166 71% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 42.7644712349 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.1 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.5 7.06452816374 149% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.311236888867 0.272083759551 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109652607244 0.0996497079465 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0883338026198 0.0662205650399 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16775388978 0.162205337803 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0489260337044 0.0443174109184 110% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.5 12.2367328918 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 63.6247240618 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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