Easter Island, located in the Pacific Ocean about 4000 miles from the coast of Chile, is one of the most isolated places in the world. It is best known for the Moai, monolithic statues of human figures carved from volcanic rock and located around the isl

The reading suggests that the construction of Moai statues led to decline of Moai culture, while the lecture claims that the recent research revealed building process not to be the reason for Moai’s downturn.

First argument presented by the author states that during the building of statues the habitats of Easter Island did not use natural resources productively, and this caused deforestation. Specifically, to transport the Moai figure the builders cut down trees in order to make trucks and move the statues from carving place to their current location. Therefore, the volume of forests on the island decreased meaningfully. On the contrary, the lecturer claims that instead the Moai men used ropes – the method that is widely applied by contemporary building teams.

Next reason discussed in the passage deals with the harmful effect of deforestation on the flora and fauna of Easter Island. Because of cutting trees, migratory birds stopped flying to the island, and the amount of fish declined too. In the same time, deforestation caused massive soil erosion. Countering that, due to the lecture the lack of trees resulted from rats that were brought to the island by first settlers and ate the seeds of palmtrees.

Final argument stated by the author of the reading is about depopulation that was the consequence of deforestation. In detail, it is claimed that the number of Easter Island’s habitats shortened from 20,000 to 2,000 because of wanting wood. By contrasts, the lecture suggests that the actual Moai population equaled to 2,000, and the number of 20,000 is just an old guess. The mistake comes from the wrong date when the first settlers came, The lecturer posits that the date should be transferred from the 400AD to 1200 AD, explaining the fact.

To conclude, in the passage it is indicated that construction of Moai statues led to the decline of Moai culture, deforestation and depopulation of the island. However, the lecture contends that the deforestation was caused not by construction, but by rats and the population of 2,000 was the largest one ever existing on the Easter Island.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, so, therefore, while, on the contrary

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 30.3222958057 191% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 5.01324503311 339% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1790.0 1373.03311258 130% => OK
No of words: 347.0 270.72406181 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15850144092 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31600926901 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81261810769 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492795389049 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 524.7 419.366225166 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 2.5761589404 311% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.3476007823 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.333333333 110.228320801 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1333333333 21.698381199 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.13333333333 7.06452816374 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
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: 0.184111221971 0.272083759551 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.059461863345 0.0996497079465 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0392191747704 0.0662205650399 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103913436698 0.162205337803 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0234070960877 0.0443174109184 53% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.3589403974 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 63.6247240618 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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