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 uninterested in 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.
Both passage and lecture focus upon the debate on rare and important fossils being sold to private ownership. The author put forward certain claims which are disregarded by the speaker. The lecturer states few counterpoints to advocate her opinion.
First, the written text claims that fossils are going to denote to museums so as to sell to private collectors. In addition, collectors do not demonstrate their collection to the public and it causes them to decrease the people's interests. In contrast, the orator opposes saying that fossils are available for purchase and display in some places such as universities or public schools.
Also, the reading's idea that scientists might lose to access to fossils and they are unable to face to fossil collectors. The monologue rebuts this claiming that it is not realistic that scientists have not to access fossils because they are the ones who perform detailed examinations and tests on the fossils and put a value on them. So, this committee will not miss out on anything.
Third, the written text claims that much of the data would remain undiscovered, as commercial fossil collectors pay less attention to details and surroundings, where fossil is available. Conversely, the Orater rebuts the statement saying that in collecting more fossils it is fine, if some information remains undiscovered.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 76, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
... fossils are going to denote to museums so as to sell to private collectors. In addition...
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Line 4, column 11, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'readings'' or 'reading's'?
Suggestion: readings'; reading's
...rsities or public schools. Also, the readings idea that scientists might lose to acce...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, first, if, so, third, as to, in addition, in contrast, such as
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 : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1137.0 1373.03311258 83% => OK
No of words: 217.0 270.72406181 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23963133641 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.8380880478 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82342976036 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.612903225806 0.540411800872 113% => OK
syllable_count: 344.7 419.366225166 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.0663326532 49.2860985944 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.363636364 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7272727273 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.72727272727 7.06452816374 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.181092326674 0.272083759551 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0635049119003 0.0996497079465 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0478979913791 0.0662205650399 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105251211518 0.162205337803 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0329867840094 0.0443174109184 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.09 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => 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: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 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.