Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the specific points made in the reading passage.
The reading and lecture are both about the mysterious declination of population in Easter island. The author of the reading proposes some ideas that depict the possible reason behind this. However, the lecturer disagrees with the explanation and attacks each of the claims made in the article.
Firstly, the author mentions that the boat carrying the native people also transferred the rats to the island. These rats fed highly on palm tress resulting deforestation. Furthermore, natural disasters occured from deforestation made the people complicate to grow food. The lecturer believes there are flaws in the writer’s position. He contends that although the prevalence of rat gave rise to destruction of land nevertheless there was no scarce of food. In addition, most of the inhabitants were fisher and more than half of the food sources came from sea. Not only this there were also fertile soil to yield potatoes.
Secondly, according to the passage the fundamental cause of population reduction is war among inhabitants. To be more precise, exacavation has found the pieces of blade and weapon that would have been used in the war consequently more residents lost their lives . The speaker on other hand points out that even though the finding seemed to be weapons but was constructing tools in real. In addition, since the materials were not sharp and pointed there could not be used as a weapon in warfare.
Finally, the reading passage notes that population is plummeted by the diseases from foreigners of Europe and South America. Furthermore, the contact with these people caused indigenous people suffer from severe heath issues and eventually population is degraded. The professor rebuts this argument. He puts forth the idea that indeed the contact with non-native resident people was detrimental and cause many people to die, it was prior to 17th century. During this century, the population elevated to almost 20000 therefore disease didn’t seem to cause population reduction.
As we can see, the author and professor holds very conflicting views on the mysterious dropping of native citizen. The speaker effectively challenges the writer’s argument.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, however, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 30.3222958057 158% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 5.01324503311 399% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1832.0 1373.03311258 133% => OK
No of words: 345.0 270.72406181 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31014492754 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3097767484 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76410600389 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 145.348785872 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.588405797101 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 564.3 419.366225166 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 13.0662251656 161% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.0715654075 49.2860985944 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.2380952381 110.228320801 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.4285714286 21.698381199 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.19047619048 7.06452816374 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => 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 : 10.0 4.45695364238 224% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.27373068433 211% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.122540745607 0.272083759551 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0338855054457 0.0996497079465 34% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0416188019307 0.0662205650399 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0634401970522 0.162205337803 39% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0546765736271 0.0443174109184 123% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.22 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.69 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 63.6247240618 146% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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