TPO31-integrate writing
The lecture is mainly discussing the reasons why Sinosauropteryx was a feathered dinosaur since the fossil included a pattern of fine lines, challenging the opposing views mentioned in the reading passage.
Firstly, in the reading passage, it is said that the fine lines may be the remains of skin fibers but not feathers. In contrast, the professor thinks that it cannot be interpreted as skin fibers because other fossils of dinosaurs do not have such structure. She indicates that if other dinosaurs were buried in volcanic ash after died, the skin fibers can also be preserved as lines in fossil. But no evidence shows that these fossils included a pattern of fine lines.
Secondly, the reading passage claims that the fine lines are more likely to be fossilized remains of frills than remains of feathers. However, the professor holds an opposite opinion that the fine lines in Sinosauropteryx's fossil cannot be frills because they contain certain protein. She claims that feather fossil include certain protein that can be detected in these fine lines but the frills don't have it.
Finally, the reading believes that the lines do not represent feathers because they located along the backbone and the tail of the animal. But the professor disagrees with it by pointing out that the lines can represent feathers because one of other birds also has feathers on its tail. She indicates that the colorful feathers on this bird are displayed to attract mating. Since Sinosauropteryx's fine lines are also colorful, they can represent feathers.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 397, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...cted in these fine lines but the frills dont have it. Finally, the reading believ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1302.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 253.0 270.72406181 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.14624505929 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98822939669 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65909513192 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.498023715415 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 402.3 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.3837615097 49.2860985944 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.5 110.228320801 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0833333333 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.25 7.06452816374 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.417507640426 0.272083759551 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.174285443967 0.0996497079465 175% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0614885843966 0.0662205650399 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.254726540712 0.162205337803 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0668303327177 0.0443174109184 151% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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