You have 20 minutes to plan and write your response. Your response will
be judged on the basis of the quality of your writing and on how well your response
presents the points in the lecture and their relationship to the reading passage.
Typically, an effective response will be 150 to 225 words.
The reading and the lecture are both about dinosaurs and present their opinions about dinosaurs being endotherms. While the author of the article argues that dinosaurs are endotherms and presents the reasons for saying so, the lecturer disputes the argument made in the article. Her position is that the three reasons provided for endotherms do not really add up to dinosaurs being endothermic as well.
According to the reading, the first main point of consideration is Polar dinosaurs , as it is stated that fossils found in the polar regions indicate that dinosaurs were endotherms because only animals that maintain a balanced inner temperature irrespective of the surrounding temperature can be active in such climate. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. She argues that the polar regions during the period of dinosaurs were much warmer than they are today and hence dinosaurs could survive in these climates. She goes on to add that there are possibilities that even when the temperature of the polar regions turned cold, dinosaurs might have hibernated like any other reptiles or even migrated to warmer regions to avoid the cold.
Secondly, the author suggests that leg position and movement of legs has a connection with animals being endothermic. The physiology of endothermy allows sustained physical activity such as running, and running is only possible when legs are placed underneath the body of the animal unlike other reptiles such as crocodiles and many lizards. As legs of dinosaurs were underneath their bodies the authors concluded that they were indeed endotherms. The lecturer, however, asserts that the dinosaurs were not necessarily high energy runners and there can be other advantages for them to have their legs underneath their bodies. She goes to say that having legs below their bodies allowed them to carry the weight of the body and have a large size.
Finally, the author puts forth the idea that there is a connection between endothermy and haversian canals. The author contends that the haversian canals allow animals to grow quickly and rapidly. Thus the presence of these canals in the fossilized bones of dinosaurs is an indicator that they were endothermic. In contrast, the lecturer’s stance is that it is true that haversian canals are present in the bones of dinosaurs but growth rings are also present , which shows that bones were not growing at a certain period. She says that they grew slowly during the cooler periods, and this constant cycle between rapid and slow then again rapid growth in the dinosaurs indicated that they were not endothermic because endotherms grow rapidly at a constant rate.
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- You have 20 minutes to plan and write your response Your response will be judged on the basis of the quality of your writing and on how well your response presents the points in the lecture and their relationship to the reading passage Typically an effect 3
- You have 20 minutes to plan and write your response Your response will be judged on the basis of the quality of your writing and on how well your response presents the points in the lecture and their relationship to the reading passage Typically an effect 3
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 83, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...oint of consideration is Polar dinosaurs , as it is stated that fossils found in t...
^^
Line 5, column 343, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...es such as crocodiles and many lizards. As legs of dinosaurs were underneath their...
^^
Line 7, column 198, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...ow animals to grow quickly and rapidly. Thus the presence of these canals in the fos...
^^^^
Line 7, column 460, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...osaurs but growth rings are also present , which shows that bones were not growing...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, hence, however, if, really, second, secondly, so, then, thus, well, while, in contrast, such as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 10.4613686534 277% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 7.30242825607 205% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 23.0 12.0772626932 190% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 22.412803532 192% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 47.0 30.3222958057 155% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2244.0 1373.03311258 163% => OK
No of words: 433.0 270.72406181 160% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18244803695 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56165014514 4.04702891845 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62614878071 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 145.348785872 142% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.478060046189 0.540411800872 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 698.4 419.366225166 167% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.8023148277 49.2860985944 134% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.0 110.228320801 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4705882353 21.698381199 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.88235294118 7.06452816374 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => 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: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0634685392548 0.272083759551 23% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0252070559479 0.0996497079465 25% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0269238485527 0.0662205650399 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0437247394522 0.162205337803 27% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0249768372383 0.0443174109184 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 63.6247240618 149% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 83, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...oint of consideration is Polar dinosaurs , as it is stated that fossils found in t...
^^
Line 5, column 343, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...es such as crocodiles and many lizards. As legs of dinosaurs were underneath their...
^^
Line 7, column 198, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...ow animals to grow quickly and rapidly. Thus the presence of these canals in the fos...
^^^^
Line 7, column 460, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...osaurs but growth rings are also present , which shows that bones were not growing...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, hence, however, if, really, second, secondly, so, then, thus, well, while, in contrast, such as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 10.4613686534 277% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 7.30242825607 205% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 23.0 12.0772626932 190% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 22.412803532 192% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 47.0 30.3222958057 155% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2244.0 1373.03311258 163% => OK
No of words: 433.0 270.72406181 160% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18244803695 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56165014514 4.04702891845 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62614878071 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 145.348785872 142% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.478060046189 0.540411800872 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 698.4 419.366225166 167% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.8023148277 49.2860985944 134% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.0 110.228320801 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4705882353 21.698381199 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.88235294118 7.06452816374 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => 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: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0634685392548 0.272083759551 23% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0252070559479 0.0996497079465 25% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0269238485527 0.0662205650399 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0437247394522 0.162205337803 27% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0249768372383 0.0443174109184 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 63.6247240618 149% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 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.