The reading and the lecture are both about dinosaurs. The author of the reading gives three reasons to support his idea that dinosaurs were endothermic. The lecture casts doubt on the claims made in the article that it is a controversial idea and his idea is in oppose idea to the reading.
First of all, the author of the reading points out that people have found the fossils of dinosaurs in polar region, which is a place that only animals are able to maintain temperature could live. This point is challenged by the lecture. He says that the weather has changed a lot that before it was much warmer than today. Moreover, during cold months dinosaurs as other animals migrated to warmer weather to live.
Secondly, the author of the reading contends that legs of dinosaurs were located beneath their bodies. They helped dinosaurs to run quickly and this point also provides an evident that dinosaurs were endothermic because only animals that have legs below their bodies can run fast and they are mostly endothermic. The lecture rebuts this argument that the legs of dinosaurs were beneath their bodies in order to sustain their weight. That is why their sizes were very large.
Finally, the author of the reading states that bone structure of dinosaurs contained Haversian canals. This feature allows animal to grow quickly and it is character of endotherm. The lecture on the other hand, opposes this idea that it is true that bone of dinosaurs has Haversian canals, but dinosaurs also had growth rings, and in cold months those growth rings stopped growing. Meanwhile for endotherm animals, they could grow rapidly in cool weather.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 154, 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.
...s idea that dinosaurs were endothermic. The lecture casts doubt on the claims made ...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ls migrated to warmer weather to live. Secondly, the author of the reading cont...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...at is why their sizes were very large. Finally, the author of the reading state...
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Line 8, column 383, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Meanwhile,
...ths those growth rings stopped growing. Meanwhile for endotherm animals, they could grow ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, moreover, second, secondly, so, while, first of all, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 22.412803532 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1376.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 277.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96750902527 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07962216107 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.35815524107 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 140.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505415162455 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 415.8 419.366225166 99% => 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: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => 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: 53.439061868 49.2860985944 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.7333333333 110.228320801 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4666666667 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.26666666667 7.06452816374 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.392274188881 0.272083759551 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.125826386692 0.0996497079465 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0892425968001 0.0662205650399 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.221744318407 0.162205337803 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.111665096083 0.0443174109184 252% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 13.3589403974 84% => 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: 11.55 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.55 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 63.6247240618 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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