ice age
The reading and the lecture are both about the cause of cold weather of the little ice age. The author provides some reasons for this cold temperature. On the other hand, the lecturer casts doubt on the points made in the reading by providing three reasons. The lecturer says that these evidences are not convincing.
First of all, according to the author, disruption of ocean currents may be the one reason. He says that cold water from melted glaciers disrupted the Gulf Stream, and resulted in the Little Ice Age. However, the lecturer disputes this point. He states that disruption of the Gulf Stream only causes cooling of the Europe and the North America. On the other hand, this Little Ice Age is also affecting southern hemisphere like New Zealand and South America.
Secondly, the author states that dust clouds and sulfur gas released due to the volcanic eruption. These can block the sunlight, and cause lower temperatures. Nevertheless, the lecturer mentions that these large dust clouds in the atmosphere must have some striking visual effects like colorful sunsets and grey or brown snow. People did not notice these effects which means that volcanic eruption is not strong enough to release such a large dust clouds.
Finally, the author points out that decline in human population resulted in less human activities. Forest trees started growing abundantly on fields which are decreasing greenhouse effect by absorbing carbon dioxide. On the other hand, the lecturer refutes this argument. He argues that this effect does not have time to work. Human population started growing back to previous level quickly. Therefore, forest trees are not there long enough to cause long term cooling effect. The Lecturer claims that the forest trees are being cut down again to grow crops for this increasing population.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, may, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1527.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 299.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10702341137 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38005868961 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.555183946488 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 459.9 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.321609456 49.2860985944 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 76.35 110.228320801 69% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.95 21.698381199 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.7 7.06452816374 81% => 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 : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.139970730501 0.272083759551 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.044146163222 0.0996497079465 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105695355378 0.0662205650399 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0959604616093 0.162205337803 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.100439046699 0.0443174109184 227% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.1 13.3589403974 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.73 53.8541721854 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.0289183223 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.77 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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