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. Archaeologists have been trying to determine how the buildings were
used. While there is still no universally agreed upon explanation, there are three
competing theories.
The reading and the lecture are both about what is the great houses have been used for. While the author of the reading states three theories about that, the lecturer refutes these theories.
The first theory suggests that these huge houses were used by hundreds of people as residential building. The article mentions the Toas’s building as a supportive evidence because of the similarity between the two structures. However, the lecture challenged that by stating that while the outside appearance of the houses could support that, the inside structures cast doubts. For instance, he argued that there are few fireplaces in the house to be use by the families who has been lived there.
The second theory claims that the buildings were used for storing the food. Specifically, storing the grain maize. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning that there is no remaining of food containers found in the place to support this theory. Moreover, it ha not been found any maize on the floor to use as evidence that these houses used for storing food supplies.
The last theory posits that the houses used as ceremonial centers. Moreover, the article made a connection between the Chaco building and the Pueblo Alto houses to support this argument. In contrast, the lecturer position is that it has been found in the Pueblo Alto houses a large number of buildings materials beside the broken pots, which is not the case in Chanco houses.
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...as been found in the Pueblo Alto houses a large number of buildings materials beside the broken p...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, moreover, second, while, for instance, in contrast
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 : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1223.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 242.0 270.72406181 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05371900826 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94415379849 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46104823564 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 128.0 145.348785872 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.528925619835 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 370.8 419.366225166 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.0807530738 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.0769230769 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6153846154 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.76923076923 7.06452816374 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0979836627616 0.272083759551 36% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0387914240826 0.0996497079465 39% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0314977614375 0.0662205650399 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0610730901347 0.162205337803 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00924359747932 0.0443174109184 21% => 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: 11.7 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.01 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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