Both the reading passage and the lecturer are discussing the consequences of selling and buying fossil by private collectors. The reading passage asserts that private market of fossils is an unfortuante event for scientists and the public. On the other hand, the lecturer believes that the negative aspects of the private sale is greatly exaggerated. She offers several reasons for her opinion.
To begin with, the reading claims that private collectors do not allow public view of their collections and the public is not able to see the fossils and due to this, people will lose interest in fossils. The lecturer rebuts this claim and she states that private sale of fossils will result in more exposure of the public to these fossils. Because many public places like libraries and schools will be able to buy these fossils and the museum will no longer be the only place for viewing the fossils.
Secondly, the reading argues that scientists will miss out on some of the important discoveries because the private collectors buy these fossils and due to the limitation of budget, scientists cannot compete in buying these fossils. The lecturer challenges this idea by mentioning that before anyone can set a price on a fossil, first it should be identified, and scientists are the ones who do the tests and exams on fossils. So they will be able to examine these fossils and they will not miss out much.
Finally, the author posits that private collectors destroy some of the related information about the fossils that they discover, and some of the data will be lost. On the other hand, the lecturer believes that if it was not for the private collectors, many fossils would remain undiscovered. This is because universities are not running so much fossil discoveries. So it is better to lose some data about a fossil rather than not discovering it at all.
- TOEFL integrated writing The sea otter
- Sea otters are a small mammal that lives in the waters along North America 039 s west coast from California to Alaska A few years ago some of the sea otter populations off of the Alaskan coast started to decline rapidly and raised several concerns beca 73
- Sea otter population decline at the Alaskan coast 70
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? People today spend too much time on personal enjoyment-doing things they like to do-rather than doing things they should do. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 60
- TPO 11 Integrated a decline in reading the literature 70
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
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Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
... posits that private collectors destroy some of the related information about the fossils t...
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Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...out the fossils that they discover, and some of the data will be lost. On the other hand, t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, if, second, secondly, so, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1552.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 316.0 270.72406181 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.91139240506 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21620550194 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55876299528 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.458860759494 0.540411800872 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 482.4 419.366225166 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => 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: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.1244585936 49.2860985944 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.857142857 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5714285714 21.698381199 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.64285714286 7.06452816374 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.158101752743 0.272083759551 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0683271012854 0.0996497079465 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0310192836516 0.0662205650399 47% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109024424701 0.162205337803 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0185439352448 0.0443174109184 42% => 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: 13.0 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.73 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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