summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.

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summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.

Submitted by zizi21 on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 18:13

According to the passage, many people do not accept this idea that bees have lived on Earth for approximately 200 million years. The lecture, however, doubts this view by three strong views.
First, the passage explains that there are not any real fossils of bees that indicate the presence of bees on the earth 200 million years ago. This idea is refuted by the lecture, which claims that although we have no fossils of bees, it does not mean that bees did not exist in that time. A specific material (tree resin) is essential for fossilizing the bees. These trees were very rare in that period of time. Hence, the lack of fossils does not indicate the lack of bees.
Second, the passage thinks that because there were no flowering plants that bees fed on them, there were not any bees. The lecture, in contrast, disagrees with this belief, suggesting that the bees that lived in that period fed on nonflowering plants. Bees adopted themselves after evolving the plants.
Third, the author of the passage writes that the fossilized structures are not similar to today's nest of bees. The lecture, on the contrary, states that although the fossilized structures do not have caps like modern bees' nest, the chemical evidence shows that they have some waterproof material that modern bees used for building nests. It proved that bees made the chambers.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 395, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...ees. These trees were very rare in that period of time. Hence, the lack of fossils does not in...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, hence, however, if, second, so, third, in contrast, on the contrary

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 0.0 7.30242825607 0% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1120.0 1373.03311258 82% => OK
No of words: 231.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.84848484848 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89854898053 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.27514610513 2.5805825403 88% => OK
Unique words: 118.0 145.348785872 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.510822510823 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 333.0 419.366225166 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => 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: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 51.6491349017 49.2860985944 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.1538461538 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7692307692 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.69230769231 7.06452816374 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0736896667964 0.272083759551 27% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0318582568948 0.0996497079465 32% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0367347589835 0.0662205650399 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0476525409816 0.162205337803 29% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0215125901448 0.0443174109184 49% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.3 13.3589403974 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 71.14 53.8541721854 132% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.0289183223 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.55 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.42 8.42419426049 88% => OK
difficult_words: 43.0 63.6247240618 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => 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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