As early as the twelfth century A.D., the settlements of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico in the American Southwest were notable for their "great houses," massive stone buildings that contain hundreds of rooms and often stand three or four stories high. Archaeologists have been trying to determine how the buildings were used. While there is still no universally agreed upon explanation, there are three competing theories. One theory holds that the Chaco structures were purely residential, with each housing hundreds of people. Supporters of this theory have interpreted Chaco great houses as earlier versions of the architecture seen in more recent Southwest societies. In particular, the Chaco houses appear strikingly similar to the large, well-known "apartment buildings" at Taos, New Mexico, in which many people have been living for centuries
Both article and professor deal with different proposal about the usage of "great houses" in Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. The article state that there are three opinions about this structure and explains them. However, the professor casts doubt on each author's reasons and opposes them.
First, the article states that this huge buildings were purely residential, each of them involve hundred of people. The article brings similarity between this buildings with "apartment buildings" at Taos, New Mexico as an important evidence. However, the professor refutes this point of view by explaining that in contrast with outside perspective of these apartments which look like residential buildings, from inside perspective there are no evidences for living of people. He adds that there were only a few fire places which are in contrast with this idea that hundred family lived there. Then, he avers that this buildings have not residential goals.
Second, the article claims that Chaco structure used for food storage. It says that they store maize for long time without spoiling in this suitable structures. The professor opposes this by saying that this hypotheses does not support because there is not any trace of maize, also they area not any remained part of big containers which used for storage of maize.
Third, the article brings the third theory about this buildings as it says these big structures used for ceremonial purposes. It brings some archaeological findings like enormous mound for this claim. On the other hand , the professor refutes this point by saying that there were a lot of another materials beside the pots. These material made from sand and stone also some instrumental tools in findings related to construction projects and worker. The remained pot belonged to regular meal pot of worker. He asserts that there is not any evidence that this buildings used as special ceremony places.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, look, second, so, then, third, in contrast, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 22.412803532 174% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1627.0 1373.03311258 118% => OK
No of words: 309.0 270.72406181 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26537216828 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62595109374 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 145.348785872 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.550161812298 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 498.6 419.366225166 119% => 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.9233602571 49.2860985944 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.7058823529 110.228320801 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1764705882 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.11764705882 7.06452816374 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 4.19205298013 262% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.111696541662 0.272083759551 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0400004399646 0.0996497079465 40% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0290592399106 0.0662205650399 44% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0724021095007 0.162205337803 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0163644945397 0.0443174109184 37% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.99 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 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.