In this set of materials, the reading passage explores the reasons that animals were larger in the past than they are today, and the professor's lecture deals with the same topic. However, he casts doubts on these reasons, and in the lecture, he provides three specific points to substantiate his opinion.
First, although the reading passage suggests that those animals were living in an oxygen-rich environment where they could grow larger, the professor argues in the lecture that there was actually less oxygen in the past than nowadays. This is because the atmosphere consisted with poison gases which were harmful for breathing them, not to mention using them for growth. Clearly, the professor's argument refutes its counterpart in the reading.
Moreover, despite the statement in the reading that there were sufficient plants on the early earth, the professor asserts that even though it is true that the food supply was abundant, those foods contained little nutrients. He supports this point with the fact that according to fossil records, plants were scares since they relied on carbon dioxide for producing energy yet there was not enough carbon dioxide for plants.
Finally, the author of the reading claims that warm weather stimulates growth, the professor contends that evidence has found that smallest people usually dwell in warm climate instead of the largest one. Then he explains that this claim is indefensible by pointing out that humans with large body size have poor ability of regulating body temperature; as a result, cooling off their body temperature in order to adapt warm condition requires consuming more energy, which will be used for releasing temperature rather than for growing.
- Society should make efforts to save endangered species only if the potential extinction of those species is the result of human activities. 62
- TPO-41 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Teachers were more appreciated and valued by society in the past than they are nowadays.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 71
- People today are too individualistic. Instead of pursuing self-centered, separate goals, people need to understand that satisfaction comes from working for the greater good of the family, the Community or society as a whole. 50
- TPO-41 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Teachers were more appreciated and valued by society in the past than they are nowadays.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 71
- People today are too individualistic. Instead of pursuing self-centered, separate goals, people need to understand that satisfaction comes from working for the greater good of the family, the Community or society as a whole. 50
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 384, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'professors'' or 'professor's'?
Suggestion: professors'; professor's
...ion using them for growth. Clearly, the professors argument refutes its counterpart in the...
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'finally', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'so', 'then', 'well', 'as a result', 'it is true']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.255813953488 0.261695866417 98% => OK
Verbs: 0.169435215947 0.158904122519 107% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0697674418605 0.0723426182421 96% => OK
Adverbs: 0.046511627907 0.0435111971325 107% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0431893687708 0.0277247811725 156% => OK
Prepositions: 0.156146179402 0.128828473217 121% => OK
Participles: 0.046511627907 0.0370669169778 125% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.45997313927 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0132890365449 0.0208969081088 64% => OK
Particles: 0.00664451827243 0.00154638098197 430% => OK
Determiners: 0.109634551495 0.128158765124 86% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00664451827243 0.0158828679856 42% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0132890365449 0.0114777025283 116% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1714.0 1645.83664459 104% => OK
No of words: 274.0 271.125827815 101% => OK
Chars per words: 6.25547445255 6.08160592843 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.04852973271 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.416058394161 0.374372842146 111% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.313868613139 0.287516216867 109% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.197080291971 0.187439937562 105% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.113138686131 0.113142543107 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45997313927 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.63503649635 0.539623497131 118% => OK
Word variations: 72.1581880265 53.8517498576 134% => OK
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0529801325 69% => OK
Sentence length: 30.4444444444 21.7502111507 140% => OK
Sentence length SD: 70.6301443008 49.3711431718 143% => OK
Chars per sentence: 190.444444444 132.220823453 144% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.4444444444 21.7502111507 140% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.22222222222 0.878197800319 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.39072847682 29% => OK
Readability: 61.8313057583 50.5018328374 122% => OK
Elegance: 1.76923076923 1.90840788429 93% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.567671206599 0.549887131256 103% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.101883534472 0.142949733639 71% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.055178119643 0.0787303798458 70% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.668760269545 0.631733273073 106% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.109091615386 0.139662658121 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.270715997907 0.266732575781 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103752301669 0.103435571967 100% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.388566817654 0.414875509568 94% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0836440693416 0.0530846634433 158% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.390214954967 0.40443939384 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.010702633202 0.0528353158467 20% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.26048565121 23% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 5.0 3.49668874172 143% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.62251655629 83% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 3.1766004415 31% => OK
Total topic words: 9.0 10.2958057395 87% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.