TPO-43 - Integrated Writing Task Agnostids were a group of marine animals that became extinct about 450 million years ago. Agnostid fossils can be found in rocks in many areas around the world. From the fossil remains, we know that agnostids were primitiv

The reading specifies that there are three theories about how agnostids may have lived. However, the lecture casts doubt on those thories and brings up three main reasons to reject specific points made in the reading passage.

First, the author asserts that agnostids may be free-swimming predators. On the other hand, the lecture states that other types of free-swimming predators have large well developed eyes, but agnositids had poor eyes. So, it is unlikely that agnostids were free-swimming predators.

Second, based on the reading, agnostids may have lived like seafloor dwellers. In contrast, the lecture contradicts this claim, reasoning that seafloor dwellers do not have an ability to move fast. In fact, they move slowly, and they occupy small areas where they originated, but agnositids moved fast. Also, agnositids' fossil have been found in different areas; it shows that agnositids were not seafloor dwellers.

Third, the reading's last point states that agnositids might be parasites. Nonetheless, the professor challenges this idea by explaining that the population of parasites are not large, but the population of agnositids was very large. So, the large population of agnositids can rule out the theory that they were parasite.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, nonetheless, second, so, third, well, in contrast, in fact, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 18.0 30.3222958057 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1064.0 1373.03311258 77% => OK
No of words: 194.0 270.72406181 72% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.48453608247 5.08290768461 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.73207559907 4.04702891845 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70833983964 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 117.0 145.348785872 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.603092783505 0.540411800872 112% => OK
syllable_count: 319.5 419.366225166 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.8393848611 49.2860985944 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.6666666667 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.1666666667 21.698381199 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.41666666667 7.06452816374 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.361310874914 0.272083759551 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.145754609835 0.0996497079465 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103498322842 0.0662205650399 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.200905899467 0.162205337803 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0906982823081 0.0443174109184 205% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.21 12.2367328918 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 49.0 63.6247240618 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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