Both the reading and the listening materials discuss size of animals in the past. To be more specific, the reading argues that animals in past were bigger than they are today. On the contrary, the lecturer refutes this notion and believes that it is far from the truth.
First and foremost, the reading starts by stating that ancient mammals were gigantic because the earth had plenty supply of oxygen. This is challenged by the professor, who thinks that the reading’s argument is groundless. He fosters his idea by claiming that there were a lot of volcano mountains during then, so carbon will take over most of the breathing air for animals. This means the reading’s point is inaccurate.
Furthermore, the reading claims that a great amount of nutrients from plants allows animals in the past to have larger body. In contrast, the lecturer disagrees with this notion and claims that this idea is groundless. He further explains that although there were plenty of plants, the amount of nutrients in those trees were too little to support animal with big side. Indeed, the reading notion is not true.
Finally, the reading finishes by claiming that warm climate enables mammals to growth into bigger size. On the other hand, the lecturer believes that this is not true because they need to cool environment to release the energy. To be more clearly, when they finish their meals, ancient animals’ body will increase heat; large mammals will contain more energy, so in order to keep them healthy, gigant animals will live in cold areas. As a result, the reading is unconvincing.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, if, so, then, in contrast, as a result, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1339.0 1373.03311258 98% => OK
No of words: 267.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01498127341 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04229324003 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51409917014 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.561797752809 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 394.2 419.366225166 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.0573363799 49.2860985944 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.2666666667 110.228320801 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.86666666667 7.06452816374 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.272099494595 0.272083759551 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0865558302945 0.0996497079465 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0524053949859 0.0662205650399 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1701638136 0.162205337803 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.03302235288 0.0443174109184 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 13.3589403974 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.48 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.03 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.