As early as the twelfth century A.D., the settlements of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico in the American Southwest were notable for their "great houses," massive stone buildings that contain hundreds of rooms and often stand three or four stories high. Archaeo

The article states the theories about how the Chaoco buildings were used in the past and provides three theories based on the evidences. However, the professor casts doubt on the points that the author explains, by stating that the theories are not convincing based on other evidences originated by further excavation.
First, the writer of the passage states that the Chao structure were purely residential with each houses having around 100 of people living in. However, the professor explains that the theory is not possible because if there were many people living there, there must be many fireplaces for each family in every house. But he demonstrates that according to the number of fireplaces, there were few families, probably 10 families and in the greater house yards there were around 100 families.
Second, the author believes that the structures were used for food supplying. However, the lecturer believes that the theory is wrong because there were large empty structures without any trace of maize or maize containers. So, emphasizing that there did not exist any remains of container, the speaker opposes the theory.
Third, the author in the passage demonstrates that the houses were used as ceremonial centers because of the remains of pots. However, again the speaker cast doubts on it by providing that archeologists have found lots of other materials too. They have found a large quantity of building construction materials and traces of leftovers of meals for construction builders. He believes that the buildings were used as a trash hill.

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Average: 0.3 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, second, so, third

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1323.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 253.0 270.72406181 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22924901186 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98822939669 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61369744469 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.537549407115 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 405.0 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.5463936509 49.2860985944 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.25 110.228320801 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0833333333 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.5 7.06452816374 50% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0787927474508 0.272083759551 29% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0331997348323 0.0996497079465 33% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.025214859686 0.0662205650399 38% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0488661137146 0.162205337803 30% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00761913891861 0.0443174109184 17% => 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: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.

Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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