The reading and lecture are both about altruism which is a type of behaviour when people or animal acts in regard of other's benefit, sacrificing its own profit. The author of a reading passage provides two examples that he consider as an altruistic behaviour. However, a lecturer casts doubt on those examples. She provides information with proof that such behaviour in fact bring individual some benefits and those acts can not be considered completely altruistic.
Firstly, the author of reading passage believes that donating body organs is an act of altruism, as donor gains no benefit from it. This point is challenged by the lecturer. She says that donors are gaining appreciacion from society. Such immaterial benefit can be really valuable for some people, so that people might donate organs, expecting reward. Those expectation are casting doubt that their donation is an example of pure altruism.
Secondly, the author of passage claims that a meercat that stands on guard and look for predators gains no benefit from such action and put himself in more danger than other meercats, thus his behaviour is altruistic. On the other hand, the lecturer provides new data about meercats. According to her, new research figured out that in fact the meercat that is looking for predators is in more advantegious situation as he is already got food, he is the first one who see the danger and because of his location, he have more chances to escape than other members of meercats society.
Lecturer effectively challenges the claims in reading passage, providing new data that might disprove the examples of behavious, that was considered altruistic before.
- "Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increasingly more time to covering national news and less time to covering weather and local news. During the same time period, most of the complaints we received from viewers were concerned wit 58
- The following appeared as a recommendation by a committee planning a ten-year budget for the city of Calatrava."The birthrate in our city is declining: in fact, last year's birthrate was only one-half that of five years ago. Thus the number of students en 16
- A recently issued twenty-year study on headaches suffered by the residents of Mentia investigated the possible therapeutic effect of consuming salicylates. Salicylates are members of the same chemical family as aspirin, a medicine used to treat headaches. 79
- A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college. 54
- Altruism in meerkat and humans 3
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 352, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this expectation' or 'Those expectations'?
Suggestion: This expectation; Those expectations
... might donate organs, expecting reward. Those expectation are casting doubt that their donation i...
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Line 3, column 136, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rs gains no benefit from such action and put himself in more danger than other me...
^^
Line 3, column 515, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'has'.
Suggestion: has
... danger and because of his location, he have more chances to escape than other membe...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, look, really, second, secondly, so, thus, in fact, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1393.0 1373.03311258 101% => OK
No of words: 271.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14022140221 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05734859645 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65805117329 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.571955719557 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 430.2 419.366225166 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 70.6808813064 49.2860985944 143% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.153846154 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8461538462 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.46153846154 7.06452816374 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0460199849553 0.272083759551 17% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0197506704163 0.0996497079465 20% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0365917504092 0.0662205650399 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0279720992915 0.162205337803 17% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0309998760261 0.0443174109184 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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