The article discusses Altruism, which is a behavior that an animal willing to sacrifice its own benefits and give those to others. The article provides three examples to show how humans and meerkat behave in such an altruistic way. However, the professor refutes the author's reasons and also provides three counterexamples.
First, the article claims that human sometimes shares food with a family or even a complete stranger. Moreover, human commit such an unselfish act such and donating an organ. The article also claims that the doner gets nothing but losing his or her organ. The professor refutes this point by stating that the doner does get praised by other people. Also, the professor mentions in the lecture that non-material rewards are valuable to the doner.
Second, the reading states that meerkat, which lives under the ground of Africa, often has a sentinel to guard the entrance of the hole, looking for predator while others enjoy eating. The professor refutes this point by providing the fact that the sentinel meerkat usually eats before it goes to the entrance guarding its home.
Third, the article avers that the sentinel meerkat selflessly gives others alarm when it spots an approaching predator. Thus, other meerkats in the hole and flee away while the sentinel has to escape the predator on its own. However, the lecture opposes this point by stating that the sentinel meerkat actually has a higher success rate fleeing the predator.
Moreover, the alarm usually attracts more predators.
In conclusion, although the reading and the lecture are both about altruistic behavior in humans and meerkat, three main points in the reading are effectively challenged by the lecturer.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, however, if, look, moreover, second, so, third, thus, while, as to, in conclusion
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: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => 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: 1442.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 276.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22463768116 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07593519647 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48153229285 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 145.348785872 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536231884058 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 438.3 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
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: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.5918023606 49.2860985944 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.1333333333 110.228320801 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.26666666667 7.06452816374 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.09492273731 147% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 4.33554083885 254% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0128377504185 0.272083759551 5% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.00473227582313 0.0996497079465 5% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0177065547899 0.0662205650399 27% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.00675424912109 0.162205337803 4% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0151029601717 0.0443174109184 34% => 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: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
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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