TPO 45 - w1
A discovery of fossil structures resembling bee nests, dating back to about 200 million years, leads some researchers to doubts about the time that bee exists before. The article pushes forth the idea that it is not possible that bees were existed about 200 million years ago and provides three reasons of support. However, the lecturer explains that the idea is plausible and refutes each of author’s reasons.
First, the author states because no fossil remains of an actual bee have been found which could be dated back to 200 million years, so bees were not existed more than 100 million years ago, as the age of the oldest fossil containing bee. On the other hand, the lecturer challenges the author’s point of view believing that the found nest has been fossilized in a resin of a particular tree which was so rare in 200 million years ago. But when the trees became much more common in the environment, the bees could be fossilised in the resin of those threes. Therefore, the author's idea is not convincing.
Second, the reading posits that bees feed on the flowering plant, but this kind of plants first appeared in 125 million years ago. In contrast to what is argued in the passage, the lecturer contends that it is possible that bees at first feed on a non-flowering plant like pine trees, and then, as time passed and flowering plants were evolved, bees got started to adapt to flowering-plant and this link of the relation remained stable since then. Consequently, it is possible that bees exist before flowering plant existence, which means they live before 125 million years ago.
Third, although the author of the passage thinks that the fossil structure found in Arizona have some differences with new nests like lacking caps with a spiral pattern for closing the nest, the lecturer casts doubt this idea by pointing out that there are some pieces of evidence that show similarity between the nest structure in the fossil and modern nests. She says that a water-proof system with a special and distinct chemical is found in the fossil which is the same as the material used in the contemporary nest. As a result, the author’s reason is baseless, and it is possible that bees existed 200 million years ago.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 577, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...e resin of those threes. Therefore, the authors idea is not convincing. Second, the ...
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Line 7, column 7, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... before 125 million years ago. Third, although the author of the passage think...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, however, if, second, so, then, therefore, third, in contrast, kind of, as a result, in contrast to, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.4613686534 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 30.3222958057 158% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1863.0 1373.03311258 136% => OK
No of words: 384.0 270.72406181 142% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.8515625 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4267276788 4.04702891845 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51899118081 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 145.348785872 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505208333333 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 551.7 419.366225166 132% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 29.0 21.2450331126 137% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 84.7239862504 49.2860985944 172% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.307692308 110.228320801 130% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.5384615385 21.698381199 136% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.0 7.06452816374 156% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => 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: 0.0793911246809 0.272083759551 29% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0309304732611 0.0996497079465 31% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0255878339562 0.0662205650399 39% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0524052174491 0.162205337803 32% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0250242419525 0.0443174109184 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 13.3589403974 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.96 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.2 11.0289183223 111% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.44 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 63.6247240618 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.498013245 130% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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