Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they oppose specific points made in the reading passage.

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Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they oppose specific points made in the reading passage.

The lecture and the prompt make contrasting points about altruism noticed among humans and animals. The prompt mentions that a human can perform an altruistic action towards other where the latter gains benefit out of the action and the former receives very little reward from the same. The lecture suggests that however, the human performing the altruistic act does receive appreciation from society or other non-material rewards which could be consequential for some people. Another altruistic behavior commonly mentioned in both the lecture is that an individual meerkat acts as a sentinel for a whole group of meerkats - either searching/hunting for food or eating their foods - i.e. guarding the group from any predator and further alerting them from the same. The prompt states that the sentinel meerkat while standing guard sacrifices its meal for the safety of the rest of the group. Nonetheless, the lecture mentions that as the sentinel meerkat guards around a burrow, it would be easier for the sentinel meerkat to flee inside the burrow at the time of danger in comparison with the rest of the herd due to the fact that sentinel meerkat is the first one to get to know about an attack. The prompt contrasts this statement by stating that the sentinel meerkat would have to flee alone after alarming the whole group which will put it in more danger.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 288, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...eives very little reward from the same. The lecture suggests that however, the huma...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, nonetheless, so, while

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 10.4613686534 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => 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: 1132.0 1373.03311258 82% => OK
No of words: 227.0 270.72406181 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.98678414097 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.88156143495 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.562972831 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 131.0 145.348785872 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.577092511013 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 338.4 419.366225166 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 13.0662251656 54% => 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: 32.0 21.2450331126 151% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 71.7671973275 49.2860985944 146% => OK
Chars per sentence: 161.714285714 110.228320801 147% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.4285714286 21.698381199 149% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06452816374 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 1.0 4.09492273731 24% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.026049846344 0.272083759551 10% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0167724248771 0.0996497079465 17% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0258092379052 0.0662205650399 39% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.026049846344 0.162205337803 16% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0443174109184 0% => 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: 18.3 13.3589403974 137% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.46 53.8541721854 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.0289183223 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.77 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 10.498013245 141% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:

para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3

Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).

Don't need a conclusion paragraph.

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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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