The reading and the lecture are both about elephants and their marvelous behaviors. While the author of the reading points out some incredible yet unusual elephant behaviors, the professor states that all these behaviors are the result of people's misunderstanding of elephant behaviors. The lecture casts doubt on the main points made in the text by providing three controversial reasons.
In the reading, the author begins by saying that elephants are aware of their time of death. As elephants become old and weak, they leave their herd and go near the lakes and rivers to die alone and in peace. However, the professor disagrees with this idea. She asserts that elephants are not aware of their time of death. The reason they spend the last moments of their lives near bodies of water is that old elephants' teeth are not strong enough to chew hard vegetation. They can find plenty of soft plants and vegetables near the wet areas, so as they get old, they prefer to live in these areas.
Furthermore, according to the reading passage, elephants can be taught to paint and demonstrate some artistic abilities. Even some elephants have painted some identifiable shapes like flowers. On the other hand, the professor states that the trainer teaches elephants how to paint by stroking their ears. Elephants' ears are so sensitive in this way their mentors can teach them how to draw. Also, the painted shapes are some lines that do not represent flowers or any object.
Finally, the author believes that elephants are afraid of mice more than other animals. Not surprisingly, the professor refutes this claim by contending that elephants are afraid of the mice because mice are unfamiliar to them. Mice are not common where elephants usually live, but in some areas, such as zoos where mice and elephants live together, elephants do not demonstrate such behavior toward mice.
To sum up, both the lecturer and the author hold conflicting views on special elephants' behaviors.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, furthermore, however, if, so, while, even so, such as, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1657.0 1373.03311258 121% => OK
No of words: 329.0 270.72406181 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03647416413 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25891501996 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54918269743 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 145.348785872 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.516717325228 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 508.5 419.366225166 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.1826345378 49.2860985944 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.0555555556 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2777777778 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.72222222222 7.06452816374 81% => 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 : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.229788337257 0.272083759551 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0818476611073 0.0996497079465 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0452347177745 0.0662205650399 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126690894824 0.162205337803 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.015569295785 0.0443174109184 35% => 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: 11.4 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.79 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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