The topic is about what the Chaco Canyon great houses were used for. The reading passage gives three competing theories which are contradictory to the opinions in the lecture.
First, according to the reading passage, these great houses were used as residential as they resembled the early versions of the architecture seen in old recent Southwest societies. However, the lecture holds an opposite opinion. These houses looked really similar to the apartment buildings from outside but not from inside. If the houses could allow hundreds of people living there, there must have been enough fire places for the daily cook. The evidence showed that there were few fire places in the houses even in a large one. So the primary function of the great houses is not residential.
Second, in the reading passage the great houses were backed up as the place where people store their food supply. These houses are big enough for grain maize storage. The lecture argued that this opinion was lack of evidence. The excavation of the houses shows there were no trace of maize found or big containers left.
Third, the reading passage proposed that houses were used as ceremonial centers as an enormous mound was found near one of the house. The mound was formed by a lot of old materials containing large number of broken pots. The professor in the lecture considered this theory not well-supported. There were other materials found in the mound besides the pots, like building materials and construction materials. These materials indicated that the mound was probably used as a trash hip where people throw away the leftover materials.
Essay evaluation report
flaws:
the second argument is a little bit short.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 25 in 30
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 12
No. of Words: 270 250
No. of Characters: 1329 1200
No. of Different Words: 143 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.054 4.2
Average Word Length: 4.922 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.378 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 92 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 60 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 39 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 26 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 15.882 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.367 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.471 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.339 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.521 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.079 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, however, if, look, really, second, so, third, well, as for
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1367.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 270.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06296296296 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05360046442 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45173156245 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.555555555556 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 425.7 419.366225166 102% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.3451074938 49.2860985944 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.4117647059 110.228320801 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8823529412 21.698381199 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.64705882353 7.06452816374 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.382754637297 0.272083759551 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.117709659281 0.0996497079465 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0649184740255 0.0662205650399 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.234176374749 0.162205337803 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0363146546403 0.0443174109184 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.3 13.3589403974 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.77 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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