Both the reading and the lecturer talk about the trade of valuable fossils. Although the reading states some reasons about disadvantages of selling fossils to rich people, the lecturer finds them dubious and provides three main advantages that this action has.
First, the reading claims that private collections reduce the public's chance to see the valuable fossils. On the other hand, the lecturer explains that this way increases the public exposure to the fossils not only by displaying these rare fossils, but only low level institution such as schools can purchase and show these ancient organisms for the attendance.
Second, the reading states that trading fossils decrease the scientists' access to these fossils and they are more likely to miss out important discoveries. However, the lecture casts doubt to this idea and asserts that before putting any value on such findings, several analyses and tests should be applied by experts and scientists to verify their values and prices. Thus, no information would be missed out by them.
Third, the author points out that collectors who are unaware of the value of these fossils, would damage these fossils and ruin all possible evidence. In contrast, the lecturer suggests that these damage done by collectors are less than damages done while finding these discoveries. And if anything has destroyed, it was worthwhile. They may not have been discovered if there was no damage.
- TPO 13- Private collectors have been selling and buying fossils, the petrified remains of ancient organisms, ever since the eighteenth century. In recent years, however, the sale of fossils, particularly of dinosaurs and other large vertebrates, has grown 81
- Toefl TPO 16 80
- TPO 1 3
- TOEFL Sample essay : integrated essay from TPO 11 88
- tpo 6 3
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, second, so, third, thus, while, in contrast, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1209.0 1373.03311258 88% => OK
No of words: 231.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23376623377 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89854898053 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48531603366 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.619047619048 0.540411800872 115% => OK
syllable_count: 361.8 419.366225166 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => 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: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.2101587671 49.2860985944 134% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.909090909 110.228320801 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.18181818182 7.06452816374 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.295935491667 0.272083759551 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104207457494 0.0996497079465 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0804274374579 0.0662205650399 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.171400449291 0.162205337803 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0456788911702 0.0443174109184 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.51 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => 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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