Essay topics:
Private collectors have been selling and buying fossils, the petrified remains of ancient organisms, ever since the eighteenth century. In recent years, however, the sale of fossils, particularly of dinosaurs and other large vertebrates, has grown into a big business. Rare and important fossils are now being sold to private ownership for millions of dollars. This is an unfortunate development for both scientists and the general public.
The public suffers because fossils that would otherwise be donated to museums where everyone can see them are sold to private collectors who do not allow the public to view their collections. Making it harder for the public to see fossils can lead to a decline in public interest in fossils, which would be a pity.
More importantly, scientists are likely to lose access to some of the most important fossils and thereby miss out on potentially crucial discoveries about extinct life forms. Wealthy fossil buyers with a desire to own the rarest and most important fossils can spend virtually limitless amounts of money to acquire them. Scientists and the museums and universities they work for often cannot compete successfully for fossils against millionaire fossil buyers.
Moreover, commercial fossil collectors often destroy valuable scientific evidence associated with the fossils they unearth. Most commercial fossil collectors are untrained or uninterestedin carrying out the careful field work and documentation that reveal the most about animal life in the past. For example, scientists have learned about the biology of nest-building dinosaurs called oviraptors by carefully observing the exact position of oviraptor fossils in the ground and the presence of other fossils in the immediate surroundings. Commercial fossil collectors typically pay no attention to how fossils lie in the ground or to the smaller fossils that may surround bigger ones.
Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific points made reading passage.
The passage discusses that many rare and important fossils are being sold to private ownership for money, referring this as a sad state of affairs. The lecturer disagrees. He says that giving ownership of fossils to these private collectors is actually beneficial to the community and attack the claims made in the reading.
The reading states that because private collectors are taking ownership of the fossils, fewer fossils would go into the museums for everyone to see. The lecturer refutes these claims. He says that public will get increased exposure to the fossils if private owners buy them. If fossils are bought by private owners, then there will be a lot of fossils for the general public to purchase in the auctions and they would not have to visit museums to see the fossils. It can help the community as many public schools and libraries will be able to buy these fossils from the owners and the students can visit the fossils regularly.
Secondly, the reading also claims that scientists will miss out on many crucial discoveries as they will lose access to these fossils. The lecturer points out that this claim is simply not true. To determine the value of a fossil, it needs to pass through the scientific community. Only scientists can identify the true value of a fossil by performing tests on them. So, the fossils are actually passed on to the scientists where they can conduct any experiment and can uncover any crucial information related to the fossils.
Thirdly, the passage says that while unearthing these fossils, untrained fossil collectors often destroy valuable scientific evidence and they don't pay any attention to some smaller fossils surrounding the bigger ones. The lecturer disagrees with this claim. He says that currently, very few fossil exploration projects are going on. So, if the private collectors are unearthing some fossils, then it is not a bad thing because if they will not do it, then we will have even fewer fossils discovered. Private fossil collectors, eventhough their work is sloppy, are helping in discovering fossils. This would not happen if fossils were not to be owned privately.
Thus, the lecturer disagrees with the claims made by the reading and says that giving private ownership of the fossils will overcome the disadvantages and it will be beneficial to the general public.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 361, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
... there will be a lot of fossils for the general public to purchase in the auctions and they wo...
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Line 7, column 144, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...y valuable scientific evidence and they dont pay any attention to some smaller fossi...
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Line 9, column 185, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...ntages and it will be beneficial to the general public.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, if, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, thus, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 5.04856512141 337% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 22.412803532 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1965.0 1373.03311258 143% => OK
No of words: 390.0 270.72406181 144% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03846153846 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44391917772 4.04702891845 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57253613062 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.446153846154 0.540411800872 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 602.1 419.366225166 144% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.7674862928 49.2860985944 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.25 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.75 7.06452816374 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.1782167569 0.272083759551 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0645917345835 0.0996497079465 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0427939462894 0.0662205650399 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.113387739706 0.162205337803 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0467262641921 0.0443174109184 105% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 11.95 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.53 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => 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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