Edmontosaurus migration
In the lecture, the professor talks about a dinosaur, Edmontosaurus, that has been stated by the passage as a migratory one. She totally disagrees with the reasons provided in reading and casts doubt on them because she thinks the reasons are not enough and can serve a different purpose than what has been mentioned by the author.
To start with, the professor mentions that despite the harsh and dark weather in winter on Alaska's North Slope, which makes that a fruitless winter, the region was fruitful in the summers. On that account, there were many vegetations growing in the summer. After the summer, those plants would have been dead, but the dead ones could have still been used as a nourishment for the Edmontosaurus. As a result, opposite to what the author has explained, the Edmontosaurus did not need to migrate in order to find food.
Furthermore, the professor elaborated that there are many reasons for herding lifestyle other than the migration, like extra protection. She provides an example of a modern-day plant-eater animal that lives in the herds but does not practice any form of migration.
Additionally, in the lecture, the professor, contradictory to the author's opinion, states that the physical strength of the Edmontosaurus can not be a reason for their migration. She mentions that the Edmontosaurus' youngs were not bulky and couldn't tolerate long-distance travel. As a result, they would slow down the herds since their parents could not let them left behind.
In conclusion, the professor casts doubt on the author's ideas in the reading. She states that the Edmontosaurus could not be a migratory animal. She states the reason given by the text like harsh weather in winters, living in a herd, and physical capabilities of Edmontosaurus, are not valid and logical reasons.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 67, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...re, the professor, contradictory to the authors opinion, states that the physical stren...
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Line 4, column 241, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: couldn't
...Edmontosaurus youngs were not bulky and couldnt tolerate long-distance travel. As a res...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, if, so, still, in conclusion, as a result, to start with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1512.0 1373.03311258 110% => OK
No of words: 298.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07382550336 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86809707152 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.530201342282 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 459.9 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 2.5761589404 311% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.0687632438 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.0 110.228320801 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2857142857 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.28571428571 7.06452816374 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.199675596392 0.272083759551 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0722004403664 0.0996497079465 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0870220020863 0.0662205650399 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103285915911 0.162205337803 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0646128722323 0.0443174109184 146% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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