Both the reading passage and the lecture discuss whether the private collection of fossils is a good idea or not. The former argues that this practice is disadvantageous for three reasons, however, the latter contradicts each of these points.
First of all, the author contends that the public will not be able to view the fossils if private collectors own all of them thus decreasing interest in science. In contrast, the lecture argues that public exposure will actually rise because low-level institutions and schools will have the ability to purchase them on the open market.
Second of all, the reading asserts that scientists will lose access to fossils if most of them are acquired by private collectors. However, the professor proclaims that scientists have to view the fossils first before private collectors in order to accurately value and catalog them. Thus, scientists will always be the people who have the first access to fossils.
Finally, the text states that private collectors are not trained scientists and thus do much damage to the fossils when they uncover them. On the other hand, the listening counters that, while some damage is done by private collectors, the situation is preferable because if they didn’t look for fossils, many would simply remain in the ground undiscovered.
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, finally, first, however, if, look, second, so, thus, while, in contrast, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1106.0 1373.03311258 81% => OK
No of words: 212.0 270.72406181 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21698113208 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.81578560438 4.04702891845 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61451843695 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 121.0 145.348785872 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.570754716981 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 328.5 419.366225166 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.2899880648 49.2860985944 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.888888889 110.228320801 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5555555556 21.698381199 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.6666666667 7.06452816374 179% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.17600404377 0.272083759551 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0795608192453 0.0996497079465 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0929822380202 0.0662205650399 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106775692951 0.162205337803 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0579504776874 0.0443174109184 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, finally, first, however, if, look, second, so, thus, while, in contrast, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1106.0 1373.03311258 81% => OK
No of words: 212.0 270.72406181 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21698113208 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.81578560438 4.04702891845 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61451843695 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 121.0 145.348785872 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.570754716981 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 328.5 419.366225166 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.2899880648 49.2860985944 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.888888889 110.228320801 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5555555556 21.698381199 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.6666666667 7.06452816374 179% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.17600404377 0.272083759551 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0795608192453 0.0996497079465 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0929822380202 0.0662205650399 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106775692951 0.162205337803 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0579504776874 0.0443174109184 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.