The author of the reading believes that dinosaurs are endotherms, which are animal have constant body temperature. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article. She thinks that the provided arguments do not prove that dinosaurs were endotherms.
First of all, the author points out that some dinosaurs lived in the Polar regions, where animals could live only if the temperature of their body was higher than the surrounding environment. This point is challenged by the lecturer. She says that Polar regions were much warmer for nonendotherms animals to live there.
Secondly, the author contends that the dinosaurs had their leg positioned underneath their body so they can run faster and that is another argument to consider them as endotherms. The lecturer rebuts this point. She says that dinosaurs had this position of legs to support more body weight. He also adds being enormous was an advantage for them.
Finally, the author states that dinosaurs had Hevernias canal, that allowed animals to grow rapidly and fast. The lecturer, on the other hand, points that evidence showed that dinosaurs could stop growing or were growing slowly, which challenged the author's point.
In conclusion, the lecturer effectively casts doubt on all the claims presented in the reading.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, if, second, secondly, so, in conclusion, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 18.0 30.3222958057 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1094.0 1373.03311258 80% => OK
No of words: 208.0 270.72406181 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25961538462 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.79765784423 4.04702891845 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57676161951 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 122.0 145.348785872 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.586538461538 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 323.1 419.366225166 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.6122199554 49.2860985944 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.1538461538 110.228320801 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.0 21.698381199 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.61538461538 7.06452816374 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.335059826859 0.272083759551 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.113795619813 0.0996497079465 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0786654516004 0.0662205650399 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.173083557867 0.162205337803 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0844365795342 0.0443174109184 191% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.93 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 50.0 63.6247240618 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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