Both the lecture and reading discuss private collection fossils from different perspectives. The lecture seems to negate all the ideas that the article has mentioned in the reading. He explains how exaggerated this idea is and discusses many benefits that selling fossils in the commercial market can have.
First of all, the author of the reading points out that because the fossils are sold to private collectors, people have lost the opportunity to view them. This point is challenged by the lecture. He restates the fact that because of commercial trade, and available for purchase, collectors tend to expose them in public places, such as library and public schools. Therefore, people probably can see the fossils.
Secondly, the author of the reading contends that scientists have lost their access to some of the most significant fossils and it has adverse affected to the discoveries of extinct life forms. The lecture rebuts this idea that the fossils need to be examined carefully before they are sold. Therefore, they have to pass through the hands of experts first. As a result, scientists do not miss out any important information about the fossils.
Finally, the author of the reading states that commercial fossils collectors destroy the value of scientific evidence during the discovery process because they do not know much about the fossils. The lecture on the other hand, opposes that it is better to have more fossils being found than keep them completely undiscovered
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, such as, as a result, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1252.0 1373.03311258 91% => OK
No of words: 242.0 270.72406181 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17355371901 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94415379849 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6089666905 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 145.348785872 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.570247933884 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 381.6 419.366225166 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.8573111919 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.3076923077 110.228320801 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6153846154 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.53846153846 7.06452816374 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => 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: 0.426416121148 0.272083759551 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.133096938311 0.0996497079465 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0751168733104 0.0662205650399 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.253504243425 0.162205337803 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0469221633289 0.0443174109184 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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