In the lecture, the professor discusses why the hypothesis in the passage that edmontosours migrated south to avoid wintertime is not reasonable.
To begin with, the passage claims that edmontosours lived too north to have sufficient plants for food, so they must migrate. However, the speaker refutes this by saying that in North Slope it was warm enough and had sunshine 24 hours a day in summer. So the plants were abundant and dead plants were sufficient winter.
Secondly, whilst the passage states that edmontosours migrated since they lived in herds, the lecturer points out that many animals living in herd actually do not migrate, but they get protection by doing so. Thus, it is not convincing that living in herds means edmontosours migrated.
Last, the professor argues that young edmontosaurs was incapable of running as fast as adults and they must be accompanied by adults, which indicates that edmontosaur population is unlikely to migrate, as a response to the assertion in the reading passage that edmontosaurs could migrate simply because the adults can move really fast.
In conclusion, based on the reasons and analysis given by the speaker above, the lack of food in the north, living in herds and the wonderful locomotive power of adults can not be the evidence of the migration of edmontosours.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, however, really, second, secondly, so, thus, in conclusion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1114.0 1373.03311258 81% => OK
No of words: 217.0 270.72406181 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.133640553 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.8380880478 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7726621307 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.58064516129 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 337.5 419.366225166 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 83.3470717842 49.2860985944 169% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.25 110.228320801 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.125 21.698381199 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.0 7.06452816374 156% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.269137543598 0.272083759551 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104561465844 0.0996497079465 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.036403813813 0.0662205650399 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131090794995 0.162205337803 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0359258468272 0.0443174109184 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 13.3589403974 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 53.8541721854 82% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.0289183223 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.77 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 49.0 63.6247240618 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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