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 passage and lecture are both mainly about the necessity to enforce a stricter regulation for handling and storing coal ash. The representatives of power companies give three reasons to oppose it, while the speaker in the lecture suggests that they are not justified.

To begin with, the passage maintain that the new, strcter regulations are not of vital importance, since effective environmental regulations already exist. These regulations require companies that dispse of coal ash must add liner in new pond or landfill to prevent coal ash components from contaminate the environment. On the contrary, the lecture argues that these companies do not use liner in their old pond and landfill and allow the coal ash directly leak into the soil from the latter. Thus, a stricter regulation to constrict the using of liner for all the pond and landfill is verifiable and necessary.

Meanwhile, the passage indicates that the supposed stricter regulations may leave a bad impression on the costomers and render them be reluctant to buy the recycling coal ash products. On the other hand, the passage use mercury as an example to illustrates that this concern is not sufficient; mercury recycling has adopted the strict regulation about 50 years, while the recycling products still maintain a good sale. Hence, the stricter regulation is reasonable for both companies and costomers.

Besides, the passage also point out that the price may increase and eventually hurt thte general public if they adopt the new regulation, but this suggestion is also challenged by the lecture. It estaminated that the expenses towards the stricter regulaiton would like only increase 1 percent in the profits of the companies. So, the latter is not necessarily significantly increase the price of electricity.

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Average: 8.5 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 90, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...e may increase and eventually hurt thte general public if they adopt the new regulation, but t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, hence, if, may, so, still, thus, while, on the contrary, to begin with, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1517.0 1373.03311258 110% => OK
No of words: 287.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.28571428571 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88929810855 2.5805825403 112% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.550522648084 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 473.4 419.366225166 113% => 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.0074282989 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.416666667 110.228320801 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.9166666667 21.698381199 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.08333333333 7.06452816374 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.50325767128 0.272083759551 185% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.169419330673 0.0996497079465 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.109252358859 0.0662205650399 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.271348842946 0.162205337803 167% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.111751323449 0.0443174109184 252% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 13.3589403974 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.7 12.2367328918 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.85 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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