The article and the lecture are about the “great houses ‘’of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. The article presents three theories about the use of these “’great houses”. The lecturer disagrees with the article and refuses all the theories presented in the article.
Firstly, the lecturer tells us that these houses appear to be native apartment from outside but from inside, it seemed that hundreds of families cannot live in them. He further explains that there were not enough fire places and rooms for hundreds of families to reside in them. This contradicts the article which states that these houses appear similar to ‘’apartment buildings’’ in New Mexico so they were used for residential purposes.
Secondly, the lecturer mentions that theory about using these ‘great houses’ for storing grain maize is also not true. He further elaborates that there were no traces of maize or maize storing containers in the building on excavation. This challenges the author’s claim that because of large size of these houses they were used for storing maize.
Thirdly, the lecturer puts forth the idea that piles of broken pots does not signify that these houses were used for ceremonies. He further suggests that along with broken pots, there were other materials like building material, stones etc. in those piles. Construction workers must have discarded their pots in those piles after having meals. This rebuts the statement given in the article that these houses were used for ceremonies as piles of broken pots used in ceremonies, were found near one house.
In conclusion, the lecturer casts doubt on all the theories presented in the article about the use of “great houses”’ of Chaco Canyon
- TOEFL T P O 08 - Integrated Writing Task 3
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 196, 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.
...f these ''great houses'. The lecturer disagrees with the article and...
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Line 9, column 149, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...great houses'' of Chaco Canyon
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1505.0 1373.03311258 110% => OK
No of words: 278.0 270.72406181 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.41366906475 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08329915638 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02695009754 2.5805825403 117% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 145.348785872 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517985611511 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 464.4 419.366225166 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
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: 38.3695481107 49.2860985944 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.333333333 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5333333333 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.46666666667 7.06452816374 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.286054410984 0.272083759551 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.117625951862 0.0996497079465 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0553968269127 0.0662205650399 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.180983194171 0.162205337803 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0581200299656 0.0443174109184 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 53.8541721854 83% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.2367328918 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
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: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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