tpo 34 the ability of the elephant dinosaur to live in the Arctic climate of Alaska's north slope
The reading and lecture talk about the ability of the elephant-size dinosaur to survive the harsh condition in arctic climate on Alaska's North slope. The reading states that many paleontologists have suggested that the edmontosaur survived the winter by migrating south to more hospitable regions and provides three reasons for support. However, the lecture explains that the reading's reasons are unconvincing, and casts doubt on each one of them.
First of all, the reading points out that dinosaurs would have migrated to find food because in winter no plants could grow in dark and cold North slope. The professor opposes this point. The professor mentions that the arctic climate was warmer than it is today, and it was sunny 24 hours a day in the summer. As a result, the plants grew heavily in the summer and dinosaurs had a lot of nutritious dead plants during the winter.
Secondly, the article claims that many edmontosaur skeletons have been found in the same site which means that they would have lived in herds. Living in herds supported that they migrated because many of the modern animals prefer to migrate in herds. The lecturer opposes this point by saying that animals live in herds for many reasons such as the protection even if they live in the same area all the time. He adds that many of the modern animals live in herd for this reason and they do not migrate.
Lastly, the author points out that edmontosaurs had the physical ability that helped them migrate. The professor refutes this point by stating that juvenile animals could not travel for long distances and adults could not leave them behind. As a result, the whole herd had to remain with juveniles.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, such as, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 15.1003584229 33% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 43.0788530466 63% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 52.1666666667 65% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.0752688172 25% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1411.0 1977.66487455 71% => OK
No of words: 288.0 407.700716846 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.89930555556 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.48103885553 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38144582974 2.67179642975 89% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 212.727598566 71% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.527777777778 0.524837075471 101% => OK
syllable_count: 423.9 618.680645161 69% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 9.59856630824 10% => OK
Article: 12.0 3.08781362007 389% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => 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: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.2727900819 48.9658058833 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.785714286 100.406767564 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5714285714 20.6045352989 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.45110844103 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 11.8709677419 42% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.177552800282 0.236089414692 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0617482954718 0.076458572812 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102058416011 0.0737576698707 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.101371816827 0.150856017488 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0638586718556 0.0645574589148 99% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 11.7677419355 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 58.1214874552 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.14 10.9000537634 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.03 8.01818996416 100% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 86.8835125448 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => 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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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