Altruism is a type of behavior in which an animal sacrifices its own interest for that of
another animal or group of animals. Altruism is the opposite of selfishness; individuals
performing altruistic acts gain nothing for themselves.
The reading and the lecture are both about altruistic behaviors in humans and animals. The author of the article feels that both humans and animals show altruistic behaviors in various forms. The lecture disputes the claims made by the article. His position is that the behaviors described by the author are not necessarily altruistic but it can even have some hidden selfishness.
According to the reading, humans show altruistic behavior by actions such as sharing of food and donating organs with their family or even stranger humans. The article mentions that such acts are altruistic as they have little incentive to the giver and is beneficial to the receiver. The lecturer challenges this specific argument. She claims that while these act may seem selfless because of no apparent gain to the human, the sharing human actually has some immaterial gains. For example, the act of donating organs to someone will certainly shower the donor with appreciations and approval from their circles. Additionally, she points out that this will lead to a increase in their feeling of self worth.
Secondly, the author suggests that Meerkats show altruism by having a individual meerkat look over the possible danger for other meerkats. In the article, it is said that the sentiner meerkat looks over any approaching prey or danger and alerts other members of its group who have gone to collect food. The lecturer, however, asserts that the sentinel meerkat might not be doing this selflessly. For instance, the lecturer posits that the meerkat in lookout feeds itself before going out so it is already full. Moreover, it stays close to the burrow so it can escape easily. She goes on to say that the alarm sound made by the meerkat can either cause the other members to either group or disperse which leads the attention of the prey from itself towards the group. So, the acts of the sentinel meerkat might not be completely altruistic.
In conclusion, the author describes the habits of humans and animals that seem altruistic but the lecturer challenges these claims and instead maintain that the act are not really altruistic but instead only seem that way.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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... altruistic behaviors in various forms. The lecture disputes the claims made by the...
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
..., she points out that this will lead to a increase in their feeling of self worth...
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...s that Meerkats show altruism by having a individual meerkat look over the possib...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, however, if, look, may, moreover, really, second, secondly, so, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 7.30242825607 205% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1806.0 1373.03311258 132% => OK
No of words: 359.0 270.72406181 133% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03064066852 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35284910392 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50403419046 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 145.348785872 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.509749303621 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 540.9 419.366225166 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.1472749754 49.2860985944 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.333333333 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9444444444 21.698381199 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.5 7.06452816374 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.171674789595 0.272083759551 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0474215979541 0.0996497079465 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0413947984268 0.0662205650399 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0998385077657 0.162205337803 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0169041501502 0.0443174109184 38% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.88 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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