edmontosaurs

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edmontosaurs

Both the reading and the listening are about igration of edmontosaur, which is a dinosour that lived in Earth houndred million years ago. The author of the reading believes that edmontosaurs that lived in Alaska used to migrate to south in a winter time. The lecturer brings the claims made in the article into question. She argues that the very dinosaur cannot migrate in winters at all. In the following passages I am going to introduce the author's view and the speaker's counter view with the relevant explanation.

First of all, the author writes that the edmontosaur's main food was vegetation. It is mentined that in winter's in Alaska there was not a sunlight at all, so edmontosaurs needed to migrate to survive. This argument was challanged by the lecturer. She tells that in that perioud in the summers in Alaska it was a sunligh 24 ours in day. This means that there were enogh vegetation full of nutreans for all winter.

Secondly, it is written in the article that edmontosaurs lived in herds. The author inclined that as most animals living in herds are migrating, the edmontosaurs migrated too. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by asserting that not all animals live in herds to migrate. She brings forth the example of Rosevalk elk which is an animal that live in herds in order to be protected from predators.

Finally, the article notes that edmontosaurs were pretty resistant animals and were able to move in 5km/h speed for a loong time. The author writes that migration for 1600 kilometros would not be a big problem for them. The lecturer, on the other hand, contends that the small edmontosaurs were not as resistant as their parents were. She elaborates on this by mentioning that the small ones would decline the speed of herd that they would not be able to migrate that distance.

To sum up, it can be inferred that there is a contradiction between the ideas of the author and speaker. As it appeared, the lecturer effectively casts doubt on all the claims made in the article.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, second, secondly, so, first of all, to sum up, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.4613686534 191% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 22.0 12.0772626932 182% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 22.412803532 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 30.3222958057 168% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1669.0 1373.03311258 122% => OK
No of words: 348.0 270.72406181 129% => OK
Chars per words: 4.79597701149 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6097950473 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.485632183908 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 511.2 419.366225166 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.0431852891 49.2860985944 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 83.45 110.228320801 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.4 21.698381199 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.7 7.06452816374 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.27373068433 281% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.247154384348 0.272083759551 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0886028326993 0.0996497079465 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.111076726426 0.0662205650399 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133892206003 0.162205337803 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0676289353174 0.0443174109184 153% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.9 13.3589403974 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.26 12.2367328918 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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