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TPO 31. INTEGRATED WRITING
The reading passage introduces three objections made by critics about some paleontologists interpretation of the lines surrounding the skeletal bones of a dinosaur fossil called Sinosauropteryx. They interpreted these lines as evidence of feathers. And the lecture supports this stance addressing each one of the objections of the critics.
First, the professor argues that the fine lines can not be fibers as a result of decomposition of the animal body as the critics suggest because other buried animals in that place show no sign of such a decomposition, instead their skin appears well-preserv...
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Score: 27 in 30
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 8 12
No. of Words: 222 250
No. of Characters: 1136 1200
No. of Different Words: 125 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.86 4.2
Average Word Length: 5.117 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.889 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 86 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 68 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 45 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 21 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.75 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.113 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.458 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.715 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.118 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4