The reading and the lecture are both about how the existing population on the Easter Island flourished.The author of the reading believes that the population on the Easter Island were destroyed by foreign invaders.The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article. He thinks that the destruction was not casued by the invaders but it was caused by thedifferences between communities living in the Easter Island in hope of food, resources, pride and dominance.
First of all, the author claims that the nature was devasted by the foreign incursions. He believes that all the palm trees where removed by the invaders in the island.This point is challenged by the lecturer. He says that the nature was destroyed by the people of Easter Island.Furtheremore, he points out the different communities living on the Island created huge stone statues and to design the statues the require wooden logs. Hence, they were the result of destruction of trees on the Island.
Secondly, the author states that spear tips were used by invaders to attack on the commmunities living in the Island. This point is challenged by the lecturer. He says that the Islanders created these spear tips to attack each other as there were differences between the communities living on the Island. The fought with themselves in for food,power and other resources.
Thirdly, the author claims that the appearnce of new religion created more support and it was determined by the birdman statues.The lecturer, on the other hand, states the communities living on the Island adopted new methods of living as they were running out of resources. He puts forth the idea that the existing communities created new methos of living and were driven by the new environment.
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- Reading time: 3 minutesEaster IslandApproximately 500 years ago, the flourishing society of Easter Island suffered a steep decline in population. Many theories have surfaced explaining how this could have happened to such a thriving culture. Within this s 3
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...land were destroyed by foreign invaders.The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made...
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...e removed by the invaders in the island.This point is challenged by the lecturer. He...
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...estroyed by the people of Easter Island.Furtheremore, he points out the different communitie...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, if, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1460.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 287.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08710801394 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8617452521 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Unique words: 124.0 145.348785872 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.432055749129 0.540411800872 80% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 439.2 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 76.200894935 49.2860985944 155% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.666666667 110.228320801 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.9166666667 21.698381199 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.66666666667 7.06452816374 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.0824036081239 0.272083759551 30% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0363408432241 0.0996497079465 36% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0336014008391 0.0662205650399 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0573088214189 0.162205337803 35% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0339766035697 0.0443174109184 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => 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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