Private collectors have been selling and buying fossils, the petrified remains of ancient organisms, ever since the eighteenth century. In recent years, however, the sale of fossils, particularly of dinosaurs and other large vertebrates, has grown into a big business. Rare and important fossils are now being sold to private ownership for millions of dollars. This is an unfortunate development for both scientists and the general public.
The public suffers because fossils that would otherwise be donated to museums where everyone can see them are sold to private collectors who do not allow the public to view their collections. Making it harder for the public to see fossils can lead to a decline in public interest in fossils, which would be a pity.
More importantly, scientists are likely to lose access to some of the most important fossils and thereby miss out on potentially crucial discoveries about extinct life forms. Wealthy fossil buyers with a desire to own the rarest and most important fossils can spend virtually limitless amounts of money to acquire them. Scientists and the museums and universities they work for often cannot compete successfully for fossils against millionaire fossil buyers.
Moreover, commercial fossil collectors often destroy valuable scientific evidence associated with the fossils they unearth. Most commercial fossil collectors are untrained or uninterested in carrying out the careful field work and documentation that reveal the most about animal life in the past. For example, scientists have learned about the biology of nest-building dinosaurs called oviraptors by carefully observing the exact position of oviraptor fossils in the ground and the presence of other fossils in the immediate surroundings. Commercial fossil collectors typically pay no attention to how fossils lie in the ground or to the smaller fossils that may surround bigger ones.
The lecture casts doubts on the passage that commercial fossil business is an unfortunate development for both scientists and the general public. Instead, the lecture asserts that commercial fossil business brings more advantages than negative effects.
First of all, the passage claims that selling fossils to private collectors would decrease the opportunity for public to see fossils, which lead to a decline in public interest in fossils. However, the lecture counters the claim by pointing out that commercial fossils business lower the criteria for people who are able to join it. Thus, even low level public institutions are able to be buyer for fossils.
Secondly, the passage states that selling fossils to private collectors would make scientists lose access to some of the most important fossils. Nevertheless, the lectures opposes the statement. The lectures argues that although fossils are sold to private collectors, before them get to the buyers they would have to pass through scientists first. Therefore, scientists do not miss out the chance to collect the data.
Finally, the passage mentions that commercial fossil collectors are untrained or uninterested in carrying out the careful field work and documentation that reveal the most about animal life in the past. Notwithstanding, the lecture denies the passage by arguing that there are not many universities run fossil excavation. And without commercial fossil businesses, there would be more fossils remain undiscovered.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 131, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...development for both scientists and the general public. Instead, the lecture asserts that comm...
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Line 5, column 209, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'argue'.
Suggestion: argue
...res opposes the statement. The lectures argues that although fossils are sold to priva...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1278.0 1373.03311258 93% => OK
No of words: 229.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.5807860262 5.08290768461 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89008302616 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83549058628 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 130.0 145.348785872 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.56768558952 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 384.3 419.366225166 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
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: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.538369048 49.2860985944 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.5 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0833333333 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.83333333333 7.06452816374 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.154731936107 0.272083759551 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0628377479574 0.0996497079465 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0477244477004 0.0662205650399 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.101063711172 0.162205337803 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0293420209785 0.0443174109184 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.3589403974 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.8541721854 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.08 12.2367328918 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21 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.