Dinosaurs were endotherms during the fossil period.

Essay topics:

Dinosaurs were endotherms during the fossil period.

The passage says that dinosaurs were endotherm, judging from their living environment, leg position, and bone structure. However, the professor considers these arguments unconvincing.
First, living environments. The passage says that dinosaurs fossils have been found in polar regions, cold areas where only endothermic animals could survive. However, the professor argues that the discovery cannot prove that dinosaurs had lived in the areas endotherm-only, because weather in the past was warmer than today, warm enough to make non endotherm also live. Even in cold weather, she adds, dinosaurs could have developed other survival strategies—migration and hibernation.
Second, leg position. The passage states that unlike crocodiles’ legs at their bodies’ side, dinosaurs’ legs are under their bodies for running, fitting the feature of all endotherm. However, the professor argues that their leg position is not necessary for running, but for supporting weight. Dinosaurs’ legs positioned under the bodies, she explains, make them grow bigger to become a dominated specie.
Third, bone structures. The passage claims that dinosaurs’ fossils have Haversian canals, bone structure for rapid growth in cold, one of characteristic present in endotherm. However, the professor argues that although having Haversian canals, dinosaurs’ fossils also have growth rings, the structure used for stopping or slowing growth in cold. These rings, she emphasizes, caused dinosaurs’ periodically fluctuating growth, rapid growth in warm but no or slow growth in cold, contradicting the endotherm’s feature of still growing quickly in cold, so dinosaurs were not endotherm.

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Average: 8.5 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 143, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...old areas where only endothermic animals could survive. However, the professor ar...
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Line 4, column 466, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
...uating growth, rapid growth in warm but no or slow growth in cold, contradicting t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, second, so, still, third

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 20.0 30.3222958057 66% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1466.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 243.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.0329218107 5.08290768461 119% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94822203886 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.32344211469 2.5805825403 129% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.58024691358 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 434.7 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.55342163355 116% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => 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: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 67.0316708576 49.2860985944 136% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.714285714 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3571428571 21.698381199 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.64285714286 7.06452816374 52% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.26937388004 0.272083759551 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0870670898683 0.0996497079465 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0830486763346 0.0662205650399 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.165247446933 0.162205337803 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0632035724179 0.0443174109184 143% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.3 53.8541721854 69% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 17.4 12.2367328918 142% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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