The professor in the lecture refutes the competing theories about Chaco structures in the reading passage. He gave three main points for holding his opinion.
First, the Chaco structures is similar to one by Native American however there are not many fire places for daily cooking. If there were hundreds of people inside, they would need more kitchen.
Second, about seeming as store food supplies. In the reading passage, Chaco people are believed to store their main crops such as grain maize. In fact that there is no evidence about grain and also from the result of excavation, there is no maize fossils. If they stored these crops, there should be more maize on the floor.
Third, the reading material have said that the house were used as ceremonial centers because a lot of broken pots were in the deposits. If the building used as ceremonial centers, why would not contain more materials they used? Moreover, the broken pots could be thought as left over from constructers.
- Some people say that computers have made life easier and more convenient. Other people say that computers have made life more complex and stressful. What is your opinion? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 70
- Soon technology will provide smart cars that virtually drives themselves. A computer in the car determines the speed and route to the desired destination. The computer is in continuous contact with a global positioning system and other technologies that w 86
- In 1939 David O Selznick produced a film of Margaret Mitchell s Pulitzer Prize winning novel Gone with the Wind The movie proved to be among the most important in the history of world cinema To this day in fact it remains the American box office c 90
- Some people suggest that it is wrong to give money to beggars asking for money on the street, while others think that it is the right thing to do. Which point of view do you think is correct, and why? 70
- TOEFL Official Guide - Practice Test 2 - Integrated Writing - Professors on TV 3
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 195, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e inside, they would need more kitchen. Second, about seeming as store food supp...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, moreover, second, so, third, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 1.0 7.30242825607 14% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 2.0 12.0772626932 17% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 22.412803532 40% => OK
Preposition: 19.0 30.3222958057 63% => 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: 827.0 1373.03311258 60% => OK
No of words: 167.0 270.72406181 62% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95209580838 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.59483629437 4.04702891845 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.3073714163 2.5805825403 89% => OK
Unique words: 106.0 145.348785872 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.634730538922 0.540411800872 117% => OK
syllable_count: 253.8 419.366225166 61% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.23620309051 49% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.8810934488 49.2860985944 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 75.1818181818 110.228320801 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.1818181818 21.698381199 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.45454545455 7.06452816374 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.337036838053 0.272083759551 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109208988541 0.0996497079465 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0454329771901 0.0662205650399 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.179491347124 0.162205337803 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0293837183736 0.0443174109184 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.5 13.3589403974 71% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 53.8541721854 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.0289183223 73% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.84 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.88 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 37.0 63.6247240618 58% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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