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,” mas-
sive stone buildings that contain hundreds of rooms and often stand three or four
stories high. Archaeologists have been trying to determine how the buildings were
used. While there is still no universally agreed upon explanation, there are three
competing theories.
One theory holds that the Chaco structures were purely residential, with each
housing hundreds of people. Supporters of this theory have interpreted Chaco
great houses as earlier versions of the architecture seen in more recent Southwest
societies. In particular, the Chaco houses appear strikingly similar to the large, well-
known “apartment buildings” at Taos, New Mexico, in which many people have
been living for centuries.
The reading and the lecture are both about the purpose of the great houses in Chaco Canyon. The author of the article puts forth three possible theories of usage of the houses. The lecturer does not agree with the arguments and disputes them. His position is that the theories do not necessarily prove the usage of the houses.
According to the reading, these great houses in Chaco Canyon were purely residential. The author claims that in each housing nearly hundreds of people lived and that some of the apartments in Taos, New Mexico have the same build as those of the great houses. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that the insides of these houses should have contained many fireplaces to house hundreds of people but evidently, in one of the biggest houses, there have been found only ten fireplaces. Thus the lecturer claims that evidence provided in the article is unfounded.
Secondly, the author suggests that the houses were used to store food supplies. He states that the main crop produced during 12th century AD in Chaco Canyon was maize, and to store maize in large quantities, such big sized houses were used. The lecturer, however, asserts that, no traces of maize were found in the houses and neither were the containers used to store maize were located. He also says that no evidence of any spilled maize was found.
Finally, the article stated that the houses were used as ceremonial centers. The author of the article provides evidence that near the houses, a mound of old material has been found which contains remains of earthenware like pots. He claims that people in Pueblo Alto used these houses for ceremonies, ate festive food, and then discarded the pots which made up the mound. The lecturer’s stance, in contrast, is that, the mound did not just consist of remains of broken pots. Other materials like sand used in construction of buildings, remains of construction tools were also found in the mound. The lecturer thus claims that the assertion of the author is unfounded.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
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Suggestion: some
...early hundreds of people lived and that some of the apartments in Taos, New Mexico have the...
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Suggestion: Thus,
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e assertion of the author is unfounded.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, thus, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 30.3222958057 155% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1698.0 1373.03311258 124% => OK
No of words: 347.0 270.72406181 128% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89337175793 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31600926901 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.39152803803 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495677233429 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 522.0 419.366225166 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.3927208664 49.2860985944 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.3684210526 110.228320801 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2631578947 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.10526315789 7.06452816374 58% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => 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: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.169333774636 0.272083759551 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0533344012441 0.0996497079465 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0564816739406 0.0662205650399 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104204833098 0.162205337803 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0433749135328 0.0443174109184 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 13.3589403974 80% => 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: 11.08 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.99 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => 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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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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