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.
Both reading and speaking discuss about the fossils that collectors have been selling. The reading claims that this action is not fair and the scientists and general people don’t have access to some certain fossils. However, the listening says that these claims is not true and they are exaggerating this action.
Firstly, the reading passage states that due the fact that some fossils are maintained in private houses, public people are not able to see them and they are suffering from it. In contrast, the professor rejects this point by saying that a lot of fossils are existence in museums for the people and saying this claim is far away from fairness. What is more, she says that there are a lot of fossils in the schools for student and in other places to public people.
Secondly, the reading passage states that because of lack of access to some fossils the scientists are not able to carry out their research on the fossils. On the other hand, the professor alters that this assertion is not a realistic one. she says that most of the scientist can get access to the fossils and they are doing their research on them.
Finally, the reading says that the private collectors destroy some signs on the fossils and so the scientists no longer discover useful information from them and also in some case they deform the way the fossils were put in the ground or under the ground. In contrast, the professor says the scientists without paying attention to them are able to discover other fossils in the other region because according to professor's claim there are a lot of regains where no privet collectors go. also she says with being changed of place, the scientist can discover the needed information.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 241, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: She
... this assertion is not a realistic one. she says that most of the scientist can get...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ey are doing their research on them. Finally, the reading says that the priva...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, however, second, secondly, so, in contrast, what is more, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1431.0 1373.03311258 104% => OK
No of words: 297.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.81818181818 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15134772569 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.3652234065 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 145.348785872 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.444444444444 0.540411800872 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 420.3 419.366225166 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.2468637086 49.2860985944 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.25 110.228320801 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.75 21.698381199 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.83333333333 7.06452816374 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0760830395395 0.272083759551 28% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0357583378261 0.0996497079465 36% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0297458421188 0.0662205650399 45% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0559277654556 0.162205337803 34% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0329701254238 0.0443174109184 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.3589403974 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 53.8541721854 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.38 8.42419426049 88% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 63.6247240618 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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