The reading and the lecture are both about the little ice age, which is the period of unusual cold temperature in different parts of the world. The article of the reading provides three reasons for the causes of the little ice age. However, the lecturer cast doubts these assumptions because they are outdated.
To begin with, the reading passage points out that one of the causes was the disrupting of ocean currents in the gulf stream. The professor rebuts this point by saying the gulf stream happened in Europe and America, and the little ice age also happened in Newzelend and southern Africa. As a result, the disruption of ocean currents cannot cause the Little Ice Age.
In addition, the writer suggests that volcanic eruption was another cause. It is mentioned that volcanoes send dark clouds of dust and these clouds consequently decrease the global temperature. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that bb saying it is true that volcanoes sent dark dust, but it was not that strong to change the ice color. Also, he mentioned that no one reported that there was any change in ice colors or extraordinary phenomenon.
Finally, the author of the reading avers that one of the causes was the substantial decrease in the human population which contributed to the change in climate. Moreover, the forest trees caused some changing in climate. The professor refutes this idea. He contends that there was not enough time to the effect of decreasing the greenhouse effect. Also, the forest is not that big to change the climate.
To conclude, the lecturer debunks all the points that the author of the reading made.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, however, if, moreover, so, in addition, as a result, it is true, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1361.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 276.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93115942029 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07593519647 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47600064318 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514492753623 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 418.5 419.366225166 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.7346305633 49.2860985944 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.0625 110.228320801 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.25 21.698381199 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.1875 7.06452816374 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.27373068433 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.387249147894 0.272083759551 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.124878145515 0.0996497079465 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0900822165288 0.0662205650399 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.18520249444 0.162205337803 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.107675680525 0.0443174109184 243% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 13.3589403974 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.02 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.08 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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