As early as the twelfth century A.D., the settlements of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico in the American Southwest were notable for their "great houses," massive stone buildings that contain hundreds of rooms and often stand three or four stories high. Archaeo

The article of the reading is about how the people of Chaco Canyon used their buildings and provides three reasons to support it. However, the professor of the lecture explains that the reasons are not convincing and refutes each of the author’s reasons.

First, the reading states that the Chaco structures are purely residential. The professor cast dought this point by stating that the building might look like residential from outside but inside does not looks like that. He also states that there is no fireplace in these buildings. He also refutes this theory by saying that there might be a fireplace for 10 people but this does not enough for a large group of people.

Second, the article claims that the structures are used to store food supplies. However, the professor contends that it might seem plausible but there is no supporting evidence on this. He also states that the researcher does not found any trash on those structures. To support his claim he says the excavator did not find any container that that would help to hold these foods.

Third, the reading avers that these houses are used as ceremonial centers. But, the lecture opposes this point by saying that building materials and construction tools are found in these sites. Furthermore, he states that excavators found trash of construction and different kinds of pots that might be used by the labor of the construction.

In sum, thee reading provided three theories to support his claim, but the lecture successfully refutes those claims.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 204, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'look'
Suggestion: look
...ential from outside but inside does not looks like that. He also states that there is...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 338, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: that
...he excavator did not find any container that that would help to hold these foods. Thir...
^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, look, second, so, third

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 22.412803532 165% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1281.0 1373.03311258 93% => OK
No of words: 254.0 270.72406181 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04330708661 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99216450694 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55560336559 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 129.0 145.348785872 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.507874015748 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 373.5 419.366225166 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.7018565649 49.2860985944 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 91.5 110.228320801 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1428571429 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.78571428571 7.06452816374 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => 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: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0696441531072 0.272083759551 26% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0250540423166 0.0996497079465 25% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0337422333335 0.0662205650399 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0448019787561 0.162205337803 28% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0450777418434 0.0443174109184 102% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.58 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 49.0 63.6247240618 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.

Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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