The reading and the lecture are both about Edmontosaurus that lived in the North Slope before 100 million years ago in harsh circumstances. More specifically, in regard to the passage, the writer presents three theories about migrating these dinasaurs to the south to detect more vaorable conditions. The lecturer disputes the claims made in the article. His position is that these clues are not persuasive.
First and foremost, the author of the reading states Edmontosaurs feed on plants, so they may moved to other places to find food in warmer territories. This argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that Edmontosaurs does not have to migrate because they can feed on dead plants. Additionally, he points out that in the North Slope at summer, the sun rises for 24 hours, which allow a good habitat to the growth of abundant trees, and then these plants will die. As a result, the dinosaurs can feed on them.
Secondly, the author suggests edmontosaur fossils found in the sam time which confirms that they lived in groups. In the article, it is said that moving in herds help animals to coordinate like buffalo and caribou. Again, the speaker specifically addresses this point when he states the animals that live in herds have more reasons instead of migrate like establish a protecction from perdators. He goes on to say that elk lived in herds but did not migrate.
Finally, the author brings his argument to a close by suggesting that edmonosaurs have the ability to move long distances because they can run in a high speed. Not surprisingly, the lecturer takes issue with this claim by contending that it is true they have the ability to run, but their kids does not have this feature. He notes that herds will not leave their youngs behind them, so they have to stay in the cold weather to survive.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, as a result, in regard to, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 22.412803532 165% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 47.0 30.3222958057 155% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1517.0 1373.03311258 110% => OK
No of words: 314.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.83121019108 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20951839842 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59932903272 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 145.348785872 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.56050955414 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 455.4 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.8233022618 49.2860985944 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.8125 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.625 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.9375 7.06452816374 84% => 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 : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.101336660969 0.272083759551 37% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0313026959135 0.0996497079465 31% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0440226876111 0.0662205650399 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0593136033744 0.162205337803 37% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0222270010228 0.0443174109184 50% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 13.3589403974 83% => 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: 10.73 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => 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: 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.