TPO-31 - Integrated Writing Task A fossil skeleton of a dinosaur called Sinosauropteryx, preserved in volcanic ash, was discovered in Liaoning, China, in 1996. Interestingly, the fossil included a pattern of fine lines surrounding the skeletal bones. Some

The lecture disproves what is mentioned in the reading material. According to the passage, some critics rebut the idea that Sinosauropteryx was a feathered dinosaur for three reasons. The professor talks about the same issue. However, she thinks the fine lines surrounding the bones is strong evidence to believe Sinosauropteryx has feather. Then she represented three details to demonstrate her idea.

For one thing, while the passage mentions that the fine lines can be the decomposed skin of the dinosaur, the professor insists that this is not the case. Because other dinosour fossils besides the Sinosauropteryx show that skin tissues are preserved in good condition, thus the line struction cannot be decomposed skin.

Moreover, contrary to the idea that the lines are likely to be fossiled remains of frills, the professor asserts that they are not frills but feather. Based on a chemical testing, a kind of protein in frills and feathers is different, and the test result indicates that the protein in the lines belong to feather.

Finally, the passage claims that the lines located on the backbone and tail of the dinosaur have no functions, since they can not help the animal to fly. However, the professor rebuts this by saying that these structures can have other uses. For instance, some birds use their colorful feathers of tail to mate, which is called "display function". And tests have illustrated that the fine lines of the animal is orange and white, which is colorful. Thus the dinosaurs can use the feather to do display function rather than fly.

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Average: 8.6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 104, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
.... According to the passage, some critics rebut the idea that Sinosauropteryx was ...
^^
Line 1, column 335, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'feathered'.
Suggestion: feathered
...evidence to believe Sinosauropteryx has feather. Then she represented three details to ...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 460, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...is orange and white, which is colorful. Thus the dinosaurs can use the feather to do...
^^^^

Discourse Markers used:
['besides', 'but', 'finally', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'while', 'for instance', 'kind of', 'for one thing']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.250847457627 0.261695866417 96% => OK
Verbs: 0.169491525424 0.158904122519 107% => OK
Adjectives: 0.064406779661 0.0723426182421 89% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0440677966102 0.0435111971325 101% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0203389830508 0.0277247811725 73% => OK
Prepositions: 0.108474576271 0.128828473217 84% => OK
Participles: 0.0372881355932 0.0370669169778 101% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.7490239035 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0305084745763 0.0208969081088 146% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.138983050847 0.128158765124 108% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0169491525424 0.0158828679856 107% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0101694915254 0.0114777025283 89% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1584.0 1645.83664459 96% => OK
No of words: 259.0 271.125827815 96% => OK
Chars per words: 6.11583011583 6.08160592843 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01166760082 4.04852973271 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.359073359073 0.374372842146 96% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.285714285714 0.287516216867 99% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.208494208494 0.187439937562 111% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.123552123552 0.113142543107 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7490239035 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.548262548263 0.539623497131 102% => OK
Word variations: 54.1090472286 53.8517498576 100% => OK
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0529801325 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.5 21.7502111507 85% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.9476698511 49.3711431718 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.142857143 132.220823453 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5 21.7502111507 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.928571428571 0.878197800319 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.39072847682 88% => OK
Readability: 47.0714285714 50.5018328374 93% => OK
Elegance: 1.69565217391 1.90840788429 89% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.741425087575 0.549887131256 135% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.121526725549 0.142949733639 85% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0835082056081 0.0787303798458 106% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.601638419291 0.631733273073 95% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.163907664011 0.139662658121 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.342651693452 0.266732575781 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.154936054126 0.103435571967 150% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.44618079522 0.414875509568 108% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0134153194068 0.0530846634433 25% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.560347230538 0.40443939384 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0359489351351 0.0528353158467 68% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.26048565121 188% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 4.0 3.49668874172 114% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.62251655629 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 7.0 3.1766004415 220% => OK
Total topic words: 13.0 10.2958057395 126% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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