The lecturer talks about the opinions of some scientists who do not agree that dinosaurs were endotherms. She says that the theory stated by the author of the passage, is somewhat irrelevant when compared with other scientific explanations.
First, polar regions used to be warmer in the past. Therefore, the temperature was warm enough for dinosaurs to survive in that areas. In addition, during winter the dinosaurs could have migrated to more friendly climates, or they could have hibernated as the present reptiles still use to do. This is a strong counter-point to what the passage indicates.
Second, the legs situated underneath its body serves not only for running. The author assumes that the animals who have the legs positioned at the body's side are not endotherms, pointing out that it was not the case of dinosaurs. However, the lecturer come with a reasonable explanation, stating that the position of the legs had the role to support large bodies. This is another standpoint that contradicts the author's point of view.
Third, the lectures says that even though the bone structure contains haversian canals, responsible for the rapid growth, their growth was relatively slow. This fact is proved by the existence of a growth ring. The latter one shows that during cold temperatures, the growing of the dinosaurs was slowing down considerably. This fact is directly contradicting the passage because the endotherms have the same growth rate both in low and high temperatures. In conclusion, the author and he lecturer appear to be in disagreement regarding this topic.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 284, Rule ID: USE_TO_VERB[1]
Message: Did you mean 'used'?
Suggestion: used
...ibernated as the present reptiles still use to do. This is a strong counter-point t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, regarding, second, so, still, therefore, third, in addition, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1335.0 1373.03311258 97% => OK
No of words: 257.0 270.72406181 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19455252918 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00390054096 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83830203733 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.618677042802 0.540411800872 114% => OK
syllable_count: 405.9 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.8576842584 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.0 110.228320801 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1333333333 21.698381199 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.26666666667 7.06452816374 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.299725227155 0.272083759551 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0832531107281 0.0996497079465 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0583190102203 0.0662205650399 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152657035684 0.162205337803 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0324055959004 0.0443174109184 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.03 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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