Elephant behaviors
The reading passage explores several beliefs regarding elephant behaviors. As reasonable as these points seem, the professor in the lecturer casts doubt on them, implying that people have misinterpreted elephant behaviors.
To begin with, the author suggests that elephants will leave their herd to find places near water when they know that they are about to die. Furthermore, the author cites the elderly elephants’ bones discovered near the water as proof that elephants have such behavior. Conversely, disputing the author‘s argument, the lecturer claims that elderly elephants move near the water because there embody soft vegetations which they can consume with their worn tooth. Therefore, the lecturer rules out that elephants are aware of approaching death.
Second, even though the author proposes that elephants have an artistic ability they can represent recognizable things with a paintbrush, the lecturer argues that it is a misconception. This is because elephants are probably trained to paint. She mentions that we can often see human trainers stroke elephants’ sensitive ears to make them do tricks like drawing and to teach them to remember to draw certain patterns. Accordingly, the lecturer believes that elephants only paint lines that are been trained to paint, indicating that the patterns don’t necessarily represent artistic things.
Last but not least, the lecturer acutely identifies a weakness in the passage that elephants are fear of mice. Despite the experiment mentioned in the article showing that elephants backed away when they encountered mice, the lecturer points out that elephants have such behavior only because they are unfamiliar with mice. In addition, in an attempt to establish a more concrete explanation, she cites the elephants in the zoo where the mice are common as proof that once elephants are familiar with mice, they won’t react with fear to the mice. As a result, the lecturer thinks that there are misunderstandings of this behavior.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, conversely, furthermore, if, regarding, second, so, therefore, in addition, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 21.0 12.0772626932 174% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1693.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 311.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.44372990354 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19942759058 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77678379071 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 145.348785872 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546623794212 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 515.7 419.366225166 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.6408702862 49.2860985944 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.928571429 110.228320801 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2142857143 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.57142857143 7.06452816374 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => 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 : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.392164957341 0.272083759551 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.155361214318 0.0996497079465 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0874280655587 0.0662205650399 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.237596502658 0.162205337803 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.069063999705 0.0443174109184 156% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 13.3589403974 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 53.8541721854 76% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.0289183223 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.27 12.2367328918 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, conversely, furthermore, if, regarding, second, so, therefore, in addition, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 21.0 12.0772626932 174% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1693.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 311.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.44372990354 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19942759058 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77678379071 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 145.348785872 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546623794212 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 515.7 419.366225166 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.6408702862 49.2860985944 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.928571429 110.228320801 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2142857143 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.57142857143 7.06452816374 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => 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 : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.392164957341 0.272083759551 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.155361214318 0.0996497079465 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0874280655587 0.0662205650399 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.237596502658 0.162205337803 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.069063999705 0.0443174109184 156% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 13.3589403974 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 53.8541721854 76% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.0289183223 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.27 12.2367328918 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.