Both the reading passage and lecture discuss whether dinosaurs were endotherms. The former argues that the dinosaurs were in fact endotherms and provides three reasons of support. However, the latter contradicts these three points.
First of all, the passage asserts dinosaurs maintained a constant body temperature because their fossils have been found in polar regions. On the other hand, the professor counters that the polar regions in the past were not as cold as they are today and there were periods that were warm. In addition, she suggests that they either migrated or hibernated during the cold periods of the year.
Secondly, the reading contends that dinosaurs are warm-blooded because they have their legs below their body as all other modern endotherms do. Nevertheless, the lecturer challenges the reading and states that the legs were present under their body in order to support more weight. Furthermore, she states that the position of legs of dinosaurs cause them to grow large as it can be advantageous for them.
Finally, the text claims that dinosaurs keep their body temperature same because their bones consists of Haversian canals. However, the listening is at odds with the text and states that the bones of dinosaurs also contain Growth Rings. She further tells that presence of Growth Rings causes periodic growth rather than rapid growth and this is not a characteristic of endotherms.
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- Integrated Writing Task Chaco Canyon How the buildings were used Summarize the points made in the lecture being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the specific theories discussed on the reading passage 70
- Endotherms are animals such as modern birds and mammals that keep their body temperatures constant For instance humans are endotherms and maintain an internal temperature of 37 C no matter whether the environment is warm or cold Because dinosaurs were rep 73
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, furthermore, however, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, in addition, in fact, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => 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: 1192.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 228.0 270.72406181 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22807017544 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.88582923847 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57135773059 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 128.0 145.348785872 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.561403508772 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 349.2 419.366225166 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 28.4409720103 49.2860985944 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 99.3333333333 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.0833333333 7.06452816374 157% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.272840027062 0.272083759551 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0939653960578 0.0996497079465 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0766521907916 0.0662205650399 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151599411906 0.162205337803 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0353333012175 0.0443174109184 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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