Chaco structures and their usage.
The reading and the lecture are both about Chaco Canyon, which are settlements in the twelfth century A.D., famous for their "great houses" and their astonishing buildings. The author of the reading provides some theories about the buildings and their usage. The lecturer cast doubts on the claims made in the article. He disagrees with theories by providing some arguments.
First of all, the author claims that the Chaco structures was a place to live for hundreds of people. It is pointed out that the Chaco buildings are more similar to modern societies apartment buildings in which many people could live. This point is challenged by the lecturer. He says it is impossible that many people lived insight of such buildings. He asserts that if the buildings was the place for living many people, there would be fireplaces for cooking and enough rooms. So based on his assumption the lecturer concludes it is not possible the buildings be “residential”.
Secondly, the author states there is another theory which explains that the Chaco buildings were a place to store food supplies. It is noted that the availability of crops and such supplies could be a compelling reason that the structure used as storing place. This theory is rebutted in the lecture. The lecturer insists that the evidence is not supported this idea. He mentions that a place for storing would have many traces which is not seen in Chaco structure.
Finally, the author provides an explanation in which that buildings were considered as a ceremonial center. He argues that findings have shown that people gathered together. The lecturer, on the other hand, says the evidence of this idea is not well-supported. He argues that the ceremonial center has some characteristic such as the availability of some materials like sands and stones which are not seen at Chaco buildings and the pots might use for meal.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 270, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...es about the buildings and their usage. The lecturer cast doubts on the claims made...
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Line 2, column 172, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'societies'' or 'society's'?
Suggestion: societies'; society's
...co buildings are more similar to modern societies apartment buildings in which many peopl...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, if, second, secondly, so, well, such as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 10.4613686534 201% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1593.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 314.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07324840764 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20951839842 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87437804931 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.487261146497 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 482.4 419.366225166 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 3.25607064018 307% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.2454901788 49.2860985944 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.8421052632 110.228320801 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.5263157895 21.698381199 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.89473684211 7.06452816374 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.27373068433 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.180672736972 0.272083759551 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0483193394916 0.0996497079465 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0684732368106 0.0662205650399 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108058032187 0.162205337803 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0654564819525 0.0443174109184 148% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 13.3589403974 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.83 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => 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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