Animals and earthquakes
The reading and the lecture both are about animals and their senses related to earthquakes and how they respond before a naturally occurring earthquake. The author claims that animals have great sensing capabilities and can sense an earthquake before it causes major destruction. The lecturer casts her doubt on this fact and opinions that, that is not the case and it is not supported by facts and real incidents.
First of all the author talks about animals having a good sensing capacity before earthquakes and he mentions that ancient Chinese and Japanese used animals to warn them of earthquakes. He makes the point stronger by saying that many humans have seen animals like dogs and birds behave weirdly before an earthquake. However, the lecturer counters this point by giving evidence to the fact humans only remember the things that they see before a catastrophe and that animals behaving out of context could have been a coincidence.
Secondly the author mentions how animals can pick up the ultrasound from rocks, which leads to them knowing when an earthquake will occur. Additionally, animals can pick up variations in the earth's magnetic field near the epicenters. So, the author comes to the conclusion that symptoms like dogs barking for hours and hours, wild animals being confused and specific ones like catfish coming out of water to land are warnings for humans to understand that an earthquake can happen any time soon. The lecturer however does not agree with this. And calls it a mere coincidence. She also adds that animals could have been behaving weirdly for a long time and humans only noticed it before an earthquake. Providing more strength to her argument she quotes a study that had been conducted on missing animals and the result provided no connection whatsoever with earthquakes at all.
Finally, the author gives the example of Haeichung, a city in China where hundreds of people were evacuated based on warnings from animals before a major 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck the city. But the lecturer disregards the example and says that the warning were in fact a result of many foreshocks experienced by the citizens. Thus the lecturer clearly puts forth her opinions that even though animals have good sensory capacity, their behaviour is not used as warning signs of earthquake like the author claims.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 281, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ake before it causes major destruction. The lecturer casts her doubt on this fact a...
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Line 7, column 333, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...foreshocks experienced by the citizens. Thus the lecturer clearly puts forth her opi...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, thus, in fact, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 7.30242825607 246% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 47.0 30.3222958057 155% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1963.0 1373.03311258 143% => OK
No of words: 387.0 270.72406181 143% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07235142119 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43534841618 4.04702891845 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56961901141 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 145.348785872 139% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.521963824289 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 602.1 419.366225166 144% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.4356658063 49.2860985944 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.6875 110.228320801 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1875 21.698381199 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5625 7.06452816374 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.395966097761 0.272083759551 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.142596380282 0.0996497079465 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103499948667 0.0662205650399 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.272841481223 0.162205337803 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0272794643087 0.0443174109184 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 63.6247240618 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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