endothermy of dinosaurs

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endothermy of dinosaurs

The reading and the lecture are both about Whether the dinosaur is an endotherms animal or not. It means that if the animal's body temperature is constant. The author of the article feels that dinosaurs are endotherms, and they provide three theories about it. The lecture, however, disputes the claim made in writing. Her position is that dinosaurs were not endotherm creatures.

According to the reading, there were fossils of dinosaurs in cold places such that only an endotherm animal could live. This specific argument is challenged by the lecture. She claims that at the time dinosaurs lived; those places weren't as cold as now, specially in the warm seasons. Additionally, she points out that dinosaurs could have easily migrated in the cold seasons, or they could have hibernated, as some of the polar animals do now.

Secondly, that author suggests that there is a connection between physical activity and endothermy. For the animal to have a high physical activity such as running, its legs are more likely to be underneath it. In the article, it is said that the dinosaur legs are underneath it, so this indicates that dinosaurs were endotherms. The lecture, however, asserts that underneath legs don't only mean the animal had a high energy level; it also supports the idea of it having more weight and, therefore, being able to be larger.

Finally, the author posits that the bone structure sometimes tells us if an animal is an endotherm or not. They contend that there are Haversian canals in some of the animal's bones that blood vessels and nerves go through. Endotherm animals are more likely to have them. In contrast, the lecture stance is in the study of dinosaur's bones, we see growth rings, which indicates that the animal wasn't growing rapidly. Its growth was probably rapid growth and then no growth and then again, rapid growth. However, endotherm growth is always rapid. This is another indication that dinosaurs were not endotherm animals.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, in contrast, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 10.4613686534 229% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 22.412803532 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1646.0 1373.03311258 120% => OK
No of words: 328.0 270.72406181 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01829268293 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51452502661 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512195121951 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 515.7 419.366225166 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 3.25607064018 430% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.6625141448 49.2860985944 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.3 110.228320801 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.4 21.698381199 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.35 7.06452816374 62% => 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: 11.0 4.27373068433 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.167338010426 0.272083759551 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0625377716953 0.0996497079465 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0751433026195 0.0662205650399 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119216186479 0.162205337803 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0452918029345 0.0443174109184 102% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 13.3589403974 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.54 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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