The author and the professor discuss about the agnostids. The author state several theories that how the agnostids may have lived and behaved, which is challenged and refused by the lecturer one by one.
Primarily, an important point expressed by the author is that the agnostids were strong free-swimmers and they could prey on smaller animals. On the contrary, in accordance with the speaker, the reading’s claim doesn’t hold any water. Even though there were some other animals swimming in the open ocean, they had well-developed eyes. However, agnostids had tiny, poorly developed eyes even sometimes were blind. Therefore, if they were active predators, they must have had other sensory organs to help them prey, but there’s no such evidence to show that.
Secondly, the author states that the agnostids may have lived on the seafloor, which is conflicted with the lecturer who says that animals living on the seafloor don’t have the ability to move fast and far. They move slowly and they’d love to stay in someplace rather than spread to new areas. However, the agnostids inhabited different areas across large distances. This shows that they have the ability to travel from one place to another pretty fast. It is unusual for dwellers living on the seafloor.
Finally, the author asserts that agnostids existed the parasites by living on and feeding off larger animals, while the speaker views this issue from an opposite angle. He claims that the populations of the parasites are not very large. Because if there were too many parasites, they would kill off the organs they lived on. However, the population of the agnostids was large in fact. As a result, the great size of the agnostid population would rule out this theory.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, while, even so, in fact, as a result, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1483.0 1373.03311258 108% => OK
No of words: 289.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13148788927 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12310562562 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57617975824 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 145.348785872 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.588235294118 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 459.9 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 1.25165562914 399% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.3685421686 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.2352941176 110.228320801 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0 21.698381199 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.29411764706 7.06452816374 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.448011013312 0.272083759551 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.134741169323 0.0996497079465 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0757174624351 0.0662205650399 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.260820768229 0.162205337803 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0295984596925 0.0443174109184 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 13.3589403974 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.25 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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