The reading and the lecture are both about a bee nest fossil found in Arizona 200 million years ago. There is an argument whether bees existed 200 million years ago. The author of the reading feels that bees cannot exist in that time. The lecture challenges the claims made by the author. He is of the opinion that there must have been a bee.
To begin with, the author argues that there is no bee in the fossil which was found by people in Arizona. If it was a bee nest, at least one bee should be inside in the fossil. However, no bees were found. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that it is fact that there was no bee inside the fossil. However, bees could not be preserved in fossils, so that is the reason why no bees were found. Bees can live by resin from the tree. However, there was no tree with resin million years ago.
Secondly, the writer suggests that there are also no flowers that time which bees would have feed on. As you know, bees feed on some flowers. However, the flowers actually existed since 125 million years ago. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning that they can feed even though it is not a flower. He elaborated on this by bringing up the point that not only flowers but also pine trees or ferns can be fed to bees. Bees pollinate from them even though it is not a flower.
Finally, the author posits that structures of bees nests lack some detail of usual one. Normally, bees nests have caps which prevent them from raining. It works as a waterproof chemical. In contrast, the lecturer’s position is that bees nests in that time had the same feature with caps. The house itself is waterproof. Hence, they did not need to have caps.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 499, Rule ID: NODT_DOZEN[1]
Message: Use simply: 'a million'.
Suggestion: a million
.... However, there was no tree with resin million years ago. Secondly, the writer sugge...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, at least, in contrast, you know, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 10.4613686534 210% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => 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: 1398.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 315.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.4380952381 5.08290768461 87% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.13240248021 2.5805825403 83% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 145.348785872 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.479365079365 0.540411800872 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 421.2 419.366225166 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.55342163355 84% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 13.0662251656 191% => OK
Sentence length: 12.0 21.2450331126 56% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 25.9722929292 49.2860985944 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 55.92 110.228320801 51% => More chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 12.6 21.698381199 58% => More words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 4.72 7.06452816374 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.27373068433 328% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.351291690003 0.272083759551 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106519338077 0.0996497079465 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0928041829117 0.0662205650399 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.222320538523 0.162205337803 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.101041934669 0.0443174109184 228% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 5.8 13.3589403974 43% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 84.68 53.8541721854 157% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 4.4 11.0289183223 40% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 7.58 12.2367328918 62% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.69 8.42419426049 79% => OK
difficult_words: 49.0 63.6247240618 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 6.8 10.498013245 65% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 11.2008830022 62% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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