The reading and the lecture are both about agnostids- a group of marine animals that is now extinct. The paleontologist could not determine how the agnostids behaved or what they ate through the fossils they found. The reading has three theories of their behavior. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. She is of the opinion that these theories are not valid evidence.
To begin with, the author argues that agnostids were the free-swimming predators. They ate smaller pieces of other marine animals. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. She claims that agnostids cannot swim freely. Their sight ability is bad for swimming loosely. As a result, they cannot be a predator and eat their prey. Furthermore, they do not have other special body parts that can act skillfully. Even some of them are blind.
Secondly, the writer suggests that agnostids were seafloor dwellers because they are examples of primitive arthropods. The lecturer, however, rebuts that they cannot be seafloor dwellers. She elaborates on this by bringing up the point that agnostids make large movements which is not a character of seafloor dwellers. Moreover, they were found in many different places. However, large movements do not make sense if they were seafloor dwellers. It means seafloor dwellers cannot swim widely unlike the agnostids.
Finally, the author posits that agnostids are parasites because there are many species of modern-day arthropods that exist as parasites. In contrast, the lecturer’s position is there is an apparent reason that explains the agnostids were not parasites. He notes that the parasites’ population is mainly limited. By the way, agnostids have numerous populations. Hence, it is not logical that the agnostids were parasites. Additionally, they were found in different places and have numerous counts.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 216, 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.
...hey ate through the fossils they found. The reading has three theories of their beh...
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Line 1, column 266, 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.
...g has three theories of their behavior. The lecturer challenges the claims made by ...
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Line 2, column 448, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...killfully. Even some of them are blind. Secondly, the writer suggests that agnos...
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Line 3, column 349, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
... dwellers. Moreover, they were found in many different places. However, large movements do not...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...erent places and have numerous counts.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, furthermore, hence, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, well, even so, in contrast, as a result, by the way, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 10.4613686534 229% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 21.0 30.3222958057 69% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1569.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 292.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.37328767123 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7528176084 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541095890411 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 480.6 419.366225166 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 3.25607064018 399% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 13.0662251656 191% => OK
Sentence length: 11.0 21.2450331126 52% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 28.8672548054 49.2860985944 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 62.76 110.228320801 57% => More chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 11.68 21.698381199 54% => More words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 5.8 7.06452816374 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 4.45695364238 247% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.27373068433 281% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.273935124239 0.272083759551 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0745134230579 0.0996497079465 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0738853118169 0.0662205650399 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.165222548047 0.162205337803 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0480183621881 0.0443174109184 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 13.3589403974 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.31 53.8541721854 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.0289183223 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.68 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 63.6247240618 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 4.5 10.7273730684 42% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 6.4 10.498013245 61% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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