Based on the given materials, the article as well as the the lecture discusses fossils of a certain dinosaur which were found in China in volcanic ashes. the fossils contain a pattern of line causing some paleontologist to consider it as an evidence for existance of the feather. The author states the evidence is not convincing. That being said, the lecturer provides sevral ideas to repudiate this claim.
Initially, the author says that the lines do not show a functional part of the animal instead they are made as a result of the skin decomposition. skin decomposition, after the animal was burried in the ashes, turns the skin to fiber and consequently skin fiber can be fossilize as lines. However, the lecturer explains that the idea of the decomposition is unlikely since other asimals which were found in that site were all well preserved. The well preserved structure of the animal eliminates the possibility of the decomposition.
Second, the writer proclaims that the fossils are related to which part of the body so the fossil might be a formation of the frills. Frills are a fan-shaped part of the animal which many dinosaurs had and based on the reading they could make the same line shape after fossilization. Yet again, the speaker underscores feathers contain high amounts of a protein called Beta Keratin and base on some analysis there were evidence of this protein on the lines. But the frills do not have this protein and as a result it supports the fact that they were fossils of feather not the frill.
The final point of contention between the reading and listening passages is the functionality of the feather. The author thinks that the main purpose of having feather is flying and tempreture regulation but as the fossils represnt the feathers were mostly on the backbone and the tail of the animal which makes it useless. On the other hand, the lecturer posits feathers have other functions such as display too. She mention a peeckok as an example which uses the feathers to attract mates. She also points out that base on the analysis of the animal's sytructure they were colorfull and mostly white and orange which strongly supports the existance of the feathers for display.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...given materials, the article as well as the the lecture discusses fossils of a certain ...
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Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...given materials, the article as well as the the lecture discusses fossils of a certain ...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
... were found in China in volcanic ashes. the fossils contain a pattern of line causi...
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Suggestion: Skin
... as a result of the skin decomposition. skin decomposition, after the animal was bur...
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Message: The pronoun 'She' must be used with a third-person verb: 'mentions'.
Suggestion: mentions
...ther functions such as display too. She mention a peeckok as an example which uses the ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, however, second, so, well, as to, such as, as a result, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 5.01324503311 279% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1840.0 1373.03311258 134% => OK
No of words: 376.0 270.72406181 139% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.89361702128 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40348946061 4.04702891845 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65418603073 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.473404255319 0.540411800872 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 580.5 419.366225166 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.7146344422 49.2860985944 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.235294118 110.228320801 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1176470588 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.47058823529 7.06452816374 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.126127220515 0.272083759551 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.043456267667 0.0996497079465 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0532791257552 0.0662205650399 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0899743598201 0.162205337803 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0606361452064 0.0443174109184 137% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.63 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 63.6247240618 146% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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