TPO22 - Integrated TOEFL essay

The reading states that ethanol fuel, which is made from plants such as corn and sugar cane, is not a good replacement for gasoline based on three main reasons. However, the lecture claims that those reasons are not convincing and opposes each reason.

First, the article says that using ethanol will not help to reduce carbon dioxide which causes the global warming environmental problem. The professor refutes this point by explaining that in fact, growing plant for producing ethanol will be a great help to reduce carbon dioxide in the environment because the plants have the role of absorbing carbon dioxide. Therefore, using ethanol instead of gasoline will really help to decrease global warming.

Second, the reading says that the production of ethanol would dramatically reduce the number of plants which are a food source of animals. The professor opposes this opinion as well. She states that ethanol can be produced by unusable parts of plants such as leaves, roots, etc. which are not eaten by animals. So it will not affect their source of food as mentioned.

Third, the article also claims that ethanol can not compete with gasoline on price without the subsidy of government. The professor strongly refutes this point by proving that if there are more and more people buying ethanol leading to the increase of ethanol production, the price to produce ethanol will be decreased for sure. She also adds that now the capacity of producing ethanol has increased three times and the price has decreased by 40% than before.

Therefore, the professor successfully opposes the idea that ethanol fuel is not a good replacement for gasoline of the passage.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
Essay Categories

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, really, second, so, therefore, third, well, in fact, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1402.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 275.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09818181818 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07223819929 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44852865247 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.494545454545 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 434.7 419.366225166 104% => 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: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.3740352952 49.2860985944 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.142857143 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6428571429 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.14285714286 7.06452816374 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.505649165355 0.272083759551 186% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.168284340215 0.0996497079465 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.108356036555 0.0662205650399 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.276296825769 0.162205337803 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0598753327511 0.0443174109184 135% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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