Altruism
The passage tells us points and examples of altruism, which is a type of behavior in which an animal sacrifices its interest for that of another animal or group of animals. It goes on to give examples to show specifically what is altruism. In the listening passage lecture, the lecturer is quick to point out that there are some serious flaws in the writer’s claims, and challenges each of the points made in the lecture.
First, the passage says that the meerkats standing guard show selfless altruism because they go without food while the others eat, and it places itself in grave danger, and when it flees, it is alone. The professor, however, states that the meerkats actually have a full stomach while they stand guard. They stand guard near a burrow, so it is actually the safest: it can run into a burrow earlier than the unlucky others after it calls the warning. Also the warning call can actually increase the probability of the others being found, because they will either close in a circle or scamper in different directions. Both increase either the visibility or the noise. But meanwhile, the sentinel meerkat is already in the burrow.
Second, the article states that the people who donate their organs to help others get nothing in return. The professor quickly takes issue by arguing that the people actually get the recognition from the patient, people and society. For some, recognition may be very important to them and winning it is a big prize.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 424, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...each of the points made in the lecture. First, the passage says that the meerkat...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 451, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...ucky others after it calls the warning. Also the warning call can actually increase ...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, however, if, may, second, so, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1225.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 253.0 270.72406181 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.8418972332 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98822939669 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43988480344 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.592885375494 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 371.7 419.366225166 89% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.4137857508 49.2860985944 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.083333333 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0833333333 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.25 7.06452816374 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.126983931518 0.272083759551 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0477041200041 0.0996497079465 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0883052921373 0.0662205650399 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0810222267412 0.162205337803 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0765276212754 0.0443174109184 173% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.3589403974 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.79 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 63.6247240618 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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