TPO-05 - Integrated Writing Task As early as the twelfth century A.D., the settlements of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico in the American Southwest were notable for their "great houses," massive stone buildings that contain hundreds of rooms and often stand th

The reading and the lecture are about building the Chaco Canyon. The author of the reading believes that these houses made foe a purpose. The lecture casts doubts on claim made in the article. He thinks that all purpose are not convincing.

First of all, the author points out that these building are made for residential aim. It is mentioned that showed very similar large known apartment buildings at Taos where many people used to live. This point is challenged by the lecture. He says inside houses casts doubts. Furthermore, she argues that few fire places were found for only ten families and and no enough room space.

Secondly, the author contends that Chaco Canyon used as food storage. The article notes that houses used to store grain maize because of their large sizes and for a long period of time. The lecture rebuts this argument. He suggestes that no well supported evidence. He elaborates on this by mentioning that no trace for any grain maize in the ground or any storage container.

Finally, the author states that they built for ceremonial purpose. The article establishes that Pueblo Alto made big mound formed by pile of an old material contains a large number of pots. At the ceremony location there were discarded pots. The lecture, on the other hand, points that week evidence. He puts forth the idea that the mound contained a sand, stone and constructions material besides to pots and that mound was just a trash also the food was what left over in the site.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 139, 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 that these houses made foe a purpose. The lecture casts doubts on claim made in t...
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Line 3, column 355, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: and
...places were found for only ten families and and no enough room space. Secondly, the...
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Line 5, column 171, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...use of their large sizes and for a long period of time. The lecture rebuts this argument. He s...
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Line 5, column 302, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...nce. He elaborates on this by mentioning that no trace for any grain maize in the...
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Line 7, column 167, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...med by pile of an old material contains a large number of pots. At the ceremony location there we...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, finally, first, furthermore, second, secondly, so, well, first of all, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1238.0 1373.03311258 90% => OK
No of words: 258.0 270.72406181 95% => OK
Chars per words: 4.7984496124 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00778971557 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.30782627936 2.5805825403 89% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.593023255814 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 383.4 419.366225166 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => 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: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 21.2450331126 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.5363166714 49.2860985944 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 65.1578947368 110.228320801 59% => More chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 13.5789473684 21.698381199 63% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.68421052632 7.06452816374 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.27045473606 0.272083759551 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0735658885463 0.0996497079465 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0525557363822 0.0662205650399 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151862267015 0.162205337803 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.04888256625 0.0443174109184 110% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.0 13.3589403974 60% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.74 53.8541721854 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 11.0289183223 65% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.97 12.2367328918 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.46 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 63.6247240618 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 4.5 10.7273730684 42% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.498013245 69% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 61.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.5 Out of 30
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