The passage states that animals which keep their body temperatures constant are known as Endotherms. It also resists on the idea that dinosaurs were endotherms because of three main reasons. In the lecture, the professor refutes these seemingly wise reasons.
First, the author believes that dinosaurs were endotherms because there have been discovered fossils of them in Polar Regions. The professor opposes this reason by stating the fact that Polar Regions were warmer those days. She also says that dinosaurs could have been migrated to a warmer place. Furthermore, they might have been hibernated during the cooler periods as the reptiles do.
Second, The author claims that the position of legs, specially when they are positioned underneath the body could be another possible reason for an animal to be an endotherm. The professor refutes this and she believes that this would let the animal to grow to a larger size. She thinks that the legs should support more weights rather than being built for the running purpose.
Third, the professor says that there are growth rings alongside the Harvesian canals that act as an indicator of growth in an animal. It also shows that cooler periods might have caused the animal to grow slowly despite the fact that they grow non-stoppingly! She believes that real endotherms could grow rapidly, even when their environment is cool!
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- TPO-43 - Integrated Writing Task Agnostids were a group of marine animals that became extinct about 450 million years ago. Agnostid fossils can be found in rocks in many areas around the world. From the fossil remains, we know that agnostids were primitiv 80
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, second, so, third
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 1.0 7.30242825607 14% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 18.0 30.3222958057 59% => More preposition wanted.
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: 1163.0 1373.03311258 85% => OK
No of words: 225.0 270.72406181 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16888888889 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.87298334621 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44312691766 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 125.0 145.348785872 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.555555555556 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 347.4 419.366225166 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => 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: 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: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.3991411612 49.2860985944 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.9166666667 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.75 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.58333333333 7.06452816374 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 4.45695364238 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.352968298781 0.272083759551 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118767286438 0.0996497079465 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0769616722314 0.0662205650399 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.200142605782 0.162205337803 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0345186162244 0.0443174109184 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.3589403974 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.83 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 47.0 63.6247240618 74% => More difficult words wanted.
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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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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