TPO-29 - Integrated Writing Task Large numbers of dinosaur fossils have been discovered in deposits on Alaska's North Slope, a region that today experiences an extremely cold,arctic climate. One hundred million years ago, when those dinosaurs were alive,

The reading and the lecture are discussing the hypothesis that a certain type of dinosaurs migrated during the winter for to warmer areas. The reading supports this claim and provides three reasons, however, the lecture casts doubt on all these claims as follows.
Firstly, the author of the reading mentions that these animals depended mainly on plants as a source of food, so they have to migrate during the winter since the whole area is covered with snow and no vegetation left to feed on. The lecturer, on the other hand, contends that plants grew in large quantities during the summer that there would be available remains of these vegetation, which could provide the dinosaurs with the required food during the winter.

Secondly, the article argues that the fossils evidences suggest that the dinosaurs lived in herds. Living in herds supports the notion of migration of the animals. In contrast, the professor rebuts this hypothesis by stating that many other animals, such as the Elk, live in herds but they do not migrate, The animals usually live in herds for other purposes like protection from predators.

Thirdly, the reading posits that the dinosaurs were able to move in a good speed which helped them to migrate easily during the winter. The lecturer, however, rejects this claim by stating that even if the adult dinosaurs were able to move easily, but the juveniles or the babies of the animals did not have the ability to move such distance which made it impossible for the adult ones to migrate because they can not leave their younger animals behind them and leave.

Votes
Average: 8.1 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 367, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this vegetation' or 'these vegetations'?
Suggestion: this vegetation; these vegetations
...hat there would be available remains of these vegetation, which could provide the dinosaurs with...
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Line 6, column 295, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e juveniles or the babies of the animals did not have the ability to move such di...
^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, in contrast, such as, 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: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1326.0 1373.03311258 97% => OK
No of words: 269.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92936802974 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0498419064 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.29422550201 2.5805825403 89% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.542750929368 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 409.5 419.366225166 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => 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: 29.0 21.2450331126 137% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 80.0319380692 49.2860985944 162% => OK
Chars per sentence: 147.333333333 110.228320801 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.8888888889 21.698381199 138% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.3333333333 7.06452816374 175% => OK
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 : 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: 0.302945246914 0.272083759551 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.134398126634 0.0996497079465 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0591843375142 0.0662205650399 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.171508644468 0.162205337803 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0364665160628 0.0443174109184 82% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 13.3589403974 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 53.8541721854 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.91 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.77 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.498013245 130% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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