At the end of the Triassic period 200 million years ago, there was a mass-extinction event that caused the extinction of more than half of all living species. It was this extinction event that allowed dinosaurs to become the dominant species for the next

The lecturer disputes the author's suggested causes of the mass extinction in the Triassic period. She provides several concrete reasons to cast doubt about the author's claims.

First, according to the author the cause of massive species extinction was the decline in sea water level. However, the lecturer disputes this cause. she contends that an abrupt decline in water level might cause this extensive killing, but, in fact, the decline was a gradual one. Thus, animals might have some time to adapt to this change.

Second, the lecturer contradicts the fallacy of the passage that the extreme cooling in weather might have caused this extinction. However, the lecturer points out that this cooling in weather was only for few years. A few years decline in temperature is unlikely to cause killing of so many species.

Finally, the asteroid theory is also unlikely to be true because no crater was found in location which struck the earth. Theoretically speaking an asteroid cause a crater around the truck area, which did not happen. The only crater discovered was 12 million years before this event took place.

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Average: 6.1 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 151, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: She
...ever, the lecturer disputes this cause. she contends that an abrupt decline in wate...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, second, so, thus, in fact

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 0.0 7.30242825607 0% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 12.0772626932 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 941.0 1373.03311258 69% => OK
No of words: 184.0 270.72406181 68% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11413043478 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.68302321012 4.04702891845 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38491612127 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 108.0 145.348785872 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.586956521739 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 286.2 419.366225166 68% => 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: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.0484324544 49.2860985944 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 78.4166666667 110.228320801 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.3333333333 21.698381199 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.08333333333 7.06452816374 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 4.33554083885 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.24422263485 0.272083759551 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.088100448073 0.0996497079465 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0742953188999 0.0662205650399 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133385754683 0.162205337803 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.013506677239 0.0443174109184 30% => 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: 10.3 13.3589403974 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.77 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 47.0 63.6247240618 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 61.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.5 Out of 30
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