Reading and lecture are both about Seller's sea cows, which became extinct in 1768. On the one hand, the writer presents three theories that might have caused their tragic extinction. On the other hand, the speaker casts doubts on the claims made by the writer, arguing that his theories are inaccurate when compared to reality.
First, sea cows were large animals, weighting ten tons and measuring around nine meters, and a couple of them would have enough to feed a village for a few months. The author states that excessive hunting for providing food supply, caused their extinction. However, the speaker refutes this, saying that the human population in that area was small, thereby inhabitants could not have hunted so many see cows. Thus, this argument contradicts the author's point of view.
Second, decline in source of food affects the entire ecosystem, and other animals such as whales should have suffered from this. Whereas, no report states that there was a declining in the number of various fishes or whales. So, this is a standpoint that directly gainsays the passage.
Third, it is true that sea cows disappeared soon after the Europeans came to the island. Nevertheless, is not correct to make them responsible for this situation, as the author implies. According to recorded information, sea cows' population started to decrease long before Europeans hunted them for trading fur. Therefore, whatever caused their death, it has nothing to do with intensive hunting. In conclusion, the author and the lecturer seem to be in disagreement regarding this topic.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, nevertheless, regarding, second, so, therefore, third, thus, whereas, in conclusion, such as, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1326.0 1373.03311258 97% => OK
No of words: 257.0 270.72406181 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15953307393 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00390054096 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54280676631 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.657587548638 0.540411800872 122% => OK
syllable_count: 389.7 419.366225166 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => 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: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.5296941063 49.2860985944 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.4 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1333333333 21.698381199 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.26666666667 7.06452816374 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.374064518659 0.272083759551 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103034696809 0.0996497079465 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0854739606741 0.0662205650399 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.193780363705 0.162205337803 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0684800662624 0.0443174109184 155% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.3589403974 85% => 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: 12.35 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.09 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => 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: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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