Endotherms are animals such as modern birds and mammals that keep their body temperatures constant. For instance, humans are endotherms and maintain an internal temperature of 37°C, no matter whether the environment is warm or cold. Because dinosaurs wer

The reading passage and the lecture area both about a characteristic about dinosaurs. The author of the reading feels that dinosaurs were endotherms and maintained their body temperature at a constant level. The lecturer challenges the each of the points made by the author. She is of the opinion that dinosaurs were not endotherms.

To begin with, the authors claims that dinosaurs fossils have been found in polar region.Only animals, which can maintain their body temperature at a stable level, can live in the polar areas. The lecturer casts doubt on this by saying that polar areas were much more warmer at that time period as compared to today. Additionally, she contends that the dinosaurs might have moved to warmer area or went for hibernation in colder months like other animals.

Secondly, the author believes that dinosaurs were endotherms because of their leg position and movement. It is mentioned in the article that dinosaurs' legs were underneath their body it is similar to the modern day endotherms. The author, however, rebuts this point by saying that it is not necessary that animals having legs underneath their body are definitely endotherms. Further, she claims that the legs were positioned underneath to support their heavy body weight.

Finally, the author believes that the dinosaurs were endotherms because their bones included Harvesian canals. The article mentions that these canals results in quick body growth, which is a characteristic of endotherms. In contrast, the lecturer states that their body contained growth rigs too. The endotherms grow rapid in all kind of environment but the dinosaurs' growth was slow in colder region and rapid in warmer region. This proves that dinosaurs were not endotherms.

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Average: 7.8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 153, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...feels that dinosaurs were endotherms and maintained their body temperature at a c...
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Line 1, column 210, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...r body temperature at a constant level. The lecturer challenges the each of the poi...
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Line 3, column 90, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Only
...fossils have been found in polar region.Only animals, which can maintain their body ...
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Line 3, column 264, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[2]
Message: Use only 'warmer' (without 'more') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: warmer
...is by saying that polar areas were much more warmer at that time period as compared to toda...
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Line 7, column 359, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'dinosaurs'' or 'dinosaur's'?
Suggestion: dinosaurs'; dinosaur's
...apid in all kind of environment but the dinosaurs growth was slow in colder region and ra...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, second, secondly, in contrast, kind of, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1471.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 279.0 270.72406181 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27240143369 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08696624509 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68896523543 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 140.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.501792114695 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 444.6 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => 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: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.7626179656 49.2860985944 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.9375 110.228320801 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.4375 21.698381199 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.75 7.06452816374 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.209173252877 0.272083759551 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0778215897269 0.0996497079465 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0714461879952 0.0662205650399 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134999671157 0.162205337803 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0274477347585 0.0443174109184 62% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.99 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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