TPO-34
The reading and the lecture are both about the Steller's sea cow. It lived in the water around Bering Island in Siberia and became extinct in 1768. The author of the reading has provided three theories about the cause of the extinction. The lecture cast doubt on each theory explain in the article. He thinks that each theory has a problem.
First, the author of the reading states that the sea cow may have been overhunted by the native Siberian people. He believes that the sea cow was the good source of food for the native people. This point is challenged by the lecture. He suggests that the Sea cow was the huge animal (serve the large group of people) and the Siderian population was small. Therefore, the Siberian people might have hunted few sea cows, but it is unlikely that the hunting had laid to the extinction of the species.
Second, the author states that the Sea cow population may have extinct due to the ecosystem disturbance. He believes that the Kelp- source of food for the sea cow, would respond negatively to the ecological changes. Hence, due to the shortage of the food, the sea cow would have extinct. The lecture refutes this idea. He suggests that the ecological changes should have affected the other part of the ecosystem. For example, The Whale should get declined. However, there was no report of the changes in the other part of the ecosystem. Therefore, ecosystem disturbance theory is not plausible.
Third, the author mentions that the European people had hunted the sea cow for the fur. He believes that European fur trader had the weapon which can quickly kill the sea cow. However, the lecture, on the other hand, suggests that the sea cow population was already declined before the European people arrived in the Siberia. Therefore, it cannot believe that the European fur trader would have caused the extinction of the sea cow.
| Post date | Users | Rates | Link to Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-23 | Mamalhastam | 76 | view |
| 2019-01-30 | mehdi2020 | 78 | view |
| 2018-10-17 | noor alshareef | 60 | view |
| 2018-10-16 | hardy | 81 | view |
| 2018-10-11 | TDK32 | 61 | view |
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, may, second, so, therefore, third, for example, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1552.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 324.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.79012345679 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.34931492088 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.435185185185 0.540411800872 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 476.1 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 13.0662251656 168% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.2063248516 49.2860985944 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 70.5454545455 110.228320801 64% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.7272727273 21.698381199 68% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.22727272727 7.06452816374 60% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
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 : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.588707635898 0.272083759551 216% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.182025938615 0.0996497079465 183% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.131249140529 0.0662205650399 198% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.37344997995 0.162205337803 230% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0933517058915 0.0443174109184 211% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.5 13.3589403974 64% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.73 53.8541721854 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.0289183223 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.91 12.2367328918 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.11 8.42419426049 84% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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