tpo27
The reading passage claims that the little ice age was a period of harsh winters and unusually cold temperature and presents three key reasons to support this view. However, the lecturer finds all the ideas implausible and provides some evidence to refute them all.
First, the author argues that cooling has caused by disrupting the ocean because there was a period of unusually warm weather before the little ice age which caused glaciers to be melted. As a result, these melted glaciers disrupted the Gulf stream and caused the little ice age. On the contrary, the professor highlights the fact that it is an out of date argument and new information shows disrupting the Gulf Stream cause cooling only in Europe and North America but little ice age affected southern areas such as New Zealand and Southern Africa. So, it can not explain the little ice age.
Second, the reading holds the view that volcanic eruption sends dark clouds of dust and sulfur gas into the atmosphere which block some sunlight and can decrease the global temperature. In contrast, the lecture dismisses this issue due to the fact that it is true eruption put enough dust to the atmosphere but there is no report to prove it had happened during the ice age. All the volcanic eruptions in the past were not strong enough to release much dust in the atmosphere.
Finally, the article asserts that decreases in human population may have contributed to the little ice age because forests started to grow up and with more trees, carbon dioxide decreases in the atmosphere and earth became cooler. Conversely, the speaker brings up the fact that there just for this effect to work. The human population was soon back to the earlier situation and forests were being cut down to clear the fields for agriculture.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, finally, first, however, may, second, so, in contrast, such as, as a result, it is true, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1481.0 1373.03311258 108% => OK
No of words: 305.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85573770492 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40477890241 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.56393442623 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 460.8 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.3743392631 49.2860985944 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.416666667 110.228320801 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4166666667 21.698381199 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0833333333 7.06452816374 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => 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 : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.55237388498 0.272083759551 203% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.190808094077 0.0996497079465 191% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.1201087426 0.0662205650399 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.275336698606 0.162205337803 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0976999855286 0.0443174109184 220% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: 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.