The professor discusses about some reasons which imply that the settelments of Chaco Canyon have not been used in the way the article suggests. The information he presents contradicts facts that outlined in the reading passage.
First, the lecturer mentions that although the outside look of the Chaco Canyon looks like apartment buildings at Taos which can be suitable for many people to live in, its inside look suggests that not many people could live there since there existed only few fire places. If many people could live there, there should have been many fire places in order to help people cook their food. On the other hand, according to the reading, great number of people have been living there for hundreds of years.
Second, the speaker states that if Chao structures were suitable for storing food supplies, then it would have been easy to find some big containers in order to store grain maize. Since there were not any maize container in that place, it is not appropriate to suggest that these places were used for storing food supplies. However, the reading specifies that one of the most common crops used to be store there was grain maize, since this place had enormous size.
Third, the professor points out that the stuff have been found in this area does not necessarily prove that this place was used as ceremonial centers. For instance, according to the stuff found there, it suggests that these materials like sand and stone have been thrown away and they are related to activities like building construction. In addition, the containers perhaps belong to the construction workers. In contrast, the reading makes it clear that excavations have found deposits of many numerous broken pots proves that the place had ceremonial usage.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, look, second, so, then, third, for instance, in addition, in contrast, 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: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1467.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 295.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97288135593 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14434120667 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.31819303771 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545762711864 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 443.7 419.366225166 106% => 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: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.6167517286 49.2860985944 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.25 110.228320801 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5833333333 21.698381199 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06452816374 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.367737611708 0.272083759551 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.130182939151 0.0996497079465 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0695754306155 0.0662205650399 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.200274979395 0.162205337803 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.067538436947 0.0443174109184 152% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.3589403974 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.98 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25 Out of 30
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