Both the reading and the lecture are about why elephants are fascinating animals. The reading claims three beliefs about elephants while the reading casts doubts all the claims in the reading and provides three explanation of support.
First, the reading mentions that elephants have the ability to know when they are going to die, and that is why they leave their herds and go other places alone when they become old. This point is challenged in the lecture by saying that elephants are not aware of the time that they die. It says that there are practical reasons why they go near water when they get older, such as their teeth lose their ability to chew and it becomes difficult for them to eat hard things. Food near water is mostly soft and that is the reason why they go there. That clearly explains the elephant graveyards.
Second, the reading assumes that elephants are the only animals have artistic abilities because they can use paintbrush. However, the lecture posits that by explaining the how people train elephants by touching their ears because elephants’ ears are so sensitive, so every time the person touches the ears, the elephant repeats the pattern. However, elephants do not know the drawing represents any particular thing, such as flowers and animals.
Third, the reading states that elephants are afraid of mice, and it provides an example of experiment which the herd of elephants was faced with several mice, the elephants tried to escape from them. The reading, however, says that scientist misinterprets that experiment because elephants are not reacting to mice themselves, actually they are reacting something that they do not know. Mice are not a familiar animal to elephants. When they get used to see them at zoo, they do not mind at all.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 169, Rule ID: THE_HOW[1]
Message: Did you mean 'how'?
Suggestion: how
..., the lecture posits that by explaining the how people train elephants by touching thei...
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Line 7, column 447, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[5]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'used to seeing'.
Suggestion: used to seeing
...liar animal to elephants. When they get used to see them at zoo, they do not mind at all. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, however, if, second, so, third, while, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 9.8082437276 10% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.0286738351 163% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 43.0788530466 86% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 52.1666666667 50% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1491.0 1977.66487455 75% => OK
No of words: 300.0 407.700716846 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.48103885553 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44760881043 2.67179642975 92% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 212.727598566 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.51 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 449.1 618.680645161 73% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.59856630824 42% => OK
Article: 8.0 3.08781362007 259% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.94265232975 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.6003584229 68% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.0525967564 48.9658058833 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.5 100.406767564 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4285714286 20.6045352989 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5 5.45110844103 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 11.8709677419 42% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.133418409065 0.236089414692 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0591593508619 0.076458572812 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0470193976058 0.0737576698707 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0922953439347 0.150856017488 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0326456654528 0.0645574589148 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 11.7677419355 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 58.1214874552 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 10.9000537634 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.42 8.01818996416 93% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 86.8835125448 60% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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