The reading and the lecture compares the altruistic behavior of humans and animals.The author of the passage says that altruistic behavior in animals and humans are acts that gain nothing for themselves. However the lecturer casts doubts on the claims made in the reading by stating that recent study clearly suggests that such behavior will attain benefits finally.
Firstly, the author argues that an animal species like meerkat sacrifice their life and hunger to help their peers find food and keep them away from the predators. they act as sentinel ,standing guard to create alarm cry so that others can run and seek shelter before the attacker approaches. This statement however is contradictory to the lecture. She argues that these species eat before standing guard. Additionally the sentinel are the ones that first see the predators so they escape after the alarm cry while others scattered are more susceptible to danger.
Secondly, the author of the passage claims that the sentinel gains nothing by sacrificing their life's. This is rebutted by the lecturer. He states that alarm causes more animals to gather together and or move quickly while the sentinel has more chances of survival.
Thirdly, the author states that humans also have the altruistic behavior for instance, while donating their kidney or sharing food they do not gain anything or reward to their act. This point is contradicted by the lecturer where she asserts that when humans perform theses selfless acts they receive appreciation and hence have an increased sense of self worthiness.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
The reading and the lecture compares the altruistic behavior of huma...
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Suggestion: The
...truistic behavior of humans and animals.The author of the passage says that altruis...
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Suggestion: However,
... acts that gain nothing for themselves. However the lecturer casts doubts on the claims...
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Suggestion: They
... and keep them away from the predators. they act as sentinel ,standing guard to crea...
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Suggestion: ,
...from the predators. they act as sentinel ,standing guard to create alarm cry so th...
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Suggestion: Additionally,
...hese species eat before standing guard. Additionally the sentinel are the ones that first se...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, while, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1323.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 254.0 270.72406181 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20866141732 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99216450694 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46261966795 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.570866141732 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 400.5 419.366225166 96% => 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: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => 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: 54.2010147506 49.2860985944 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.25 110.228320801 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1666666667 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.41666666667 7.06452816374 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => 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: 0.165536541224 0.272083759551 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0540770582537 0.0996497079465 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0746141581288 0.0662205650399 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103783315324 0.162205337803 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0592437075119 0.0443174109184 134% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 10.7273730684 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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