extinction of megafauna species
Both the reading and the lecture are about the extinction of megafauna species. While the author of the article asserts that humans are responsible for the extinction of mega-fauna species. The lecturer disputes the claim mentioned in the article. His position is that no clear evidence is provided, that can prove that humans are responsible for the extinction of megafauna species.
According to the reading, humans are altering the environment by using fire as a tool. The article mentions that fire causes a serious and undeniable impact on the landscape which causes difficulties among the megafauna species. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that although there is an undeniable impact of fire on the environment there is no such evidence that depicts fire used by humans is solely responsible.
Secondly, the author suggests that fire used by humans for clearing the landscape in preparation for agriculture imbalances the ecosystem by altering the food chain upon which megafauna depended. The lecturer, however, asserts that no such evidence provided may be the uncontrolled fire in the forest areas affecting the ecosystem.
Finally, the author put forth the idea that now tools that humans are using are responsible for the extinction of megafauna species. In contrast, the lecturer’s stance is humans solely are not responsible.
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement People should keep trying to reach their goals even if they seem impossible to achieve Use specific reasons and examples to explain your position 60
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement People should keep trying to reach their goals even if they seem impossible to achieve Use specific reasons and examples to explain your position 76
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Technology has made children less creative than they were in the past Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 60
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Parents are the best teachers Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 60
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement The knowledge we gain from our personal experiences is more valuable than the knowledge we gain from books Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer Do not use memorized examples 60
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, while, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 21.0 30.3222958057 69% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1160.0 1373.03311258 84% => OK
No of words: 216.0 270.72406181 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.37037037037 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.83365862548 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88887405029 2.5805825403 112% => OK
Unique words: 102.0 145.348785872 70% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.472222222222 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 372.6 419.366225166 89% => 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: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
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: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.225255739 49.2860985944 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.6666666667 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.58333333333 7.06452816374 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.174498713584 0.272083759551 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0778370551015 0.0996497079465 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0962552597857 0.0662205650399 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122579555909 0.162205337803 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0846537018756 0.0443174109184 191% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 53.8541721854 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.57 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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