TPO-54#LECTUREThe Salton Sea in California is actually a salty inland lake. The level of salt in the lake's water—what scientists call its salinity—has been increasing steadily for years because the lake's water is evaporating faster than it is being

In view of the reading, the author enumerates several solutions for diminishing the level of salt in the Salton sea in California by pointing out 3 reasons of support. Finding the statements arguable, the lecturer casts doubt on the claims made by the article and presents a piece of evidence in contrary.

At first, the author argues that it could have a great effect if they use desalination facilities in order to separate salt from the water and bring the salt-free water to the sea. Conversely, the lecturer brings up the idea that this solution seems good but has a critical problem. When the salts left behind during the process, other chemical materials stay with them which could be dangerous for human health.

In addition, the reading passage holds the view that another possibility is related to dilution. As a matter of fact, the Pacific Ocean contains 20 percent less salt compared to the Salton Sea and it would be a good idea if they add the ocean water in sea in order to dilute it. On the other hand, the lecturer disputes this point by clarifying the fact that there are huge of costs related to constructing the new pipeline for long distance and the government do not accept to pay such these costs.

Finally, the author asserts use of constructing wall and create several sections in order to provide situation in which can add a water from small rivers to them, as the last point for supporting a solution to decrease the salinity. The lecturer, though, dismisses it by elucidating that this solution can work for short time and in the long run, it can create geological event such as great earthquake, so in no way was it possible to reduce the amount of salt and maintain the health of the sea.

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Average: 8.3 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 129, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[1]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'water'.
Suggestion: water
...r to provide situation in which can add a water from small rivers to them, as the last ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, finally, first, if, so, in addition, such as, as a matter of fact, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 30.3222958057 152% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1425.0 1373.03311258 104% => OK
No of words: 304.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.6875 5.08290768461 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17559525986 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53225171264 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.555921052632 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 436.5 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

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: 30.0 21.2450331126 141% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 53.3030017916 49.2860985944 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.5 110.228320801 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.4 21.698381199 140% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.1 7.06452816374 143% => 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: 0.143364618618 0.272083759551 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0544219609117 0.0996497079465 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0517553628441 0.0662205650399 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0887461683157 0.162205337803 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0180604246011 0.0443174109184 41% => 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: 15.9 13.3589403974 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.95 53.8541721854 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 11.0289183223 114% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.51 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 10.498013245 133% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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