The mass extinction occurred at the end of the Triassic period

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The mass extinction occurred at the end of the Triassic period

The reading and lecture are both about the mass extinction occured at the end of the Triassic period 200 million years ago. The author of the article believes three explanation as reasons for this mass extinction. However, the speaker effectively casts doubt on these three arguments presented by writer. To be more specific, she claims that, although plausible, those explanations are not good explanations.

To begin with, the penman argues that the decline in sea level was the cause for the massive extincion, citing the fact that it could have disasterous effects on living environment of animals. However, the speaker presents a hole in this argument, by highllighting the fact that the coastal regions are able to adapt to harsh conditions especially when the changes occur gradually and in the course of several million years. Moreoover, she asserts that in order to impose dangerous effect, the environment should face a sudden change.

Secondly, the essayist suggests that massive cooling in climate could be the cause of massive extinction, citing that this could be result of enourmous volcanic activities during the end of the Triassic period. Never would the orator accept this as a viable possibility since gases produced from volcanic activities such as sulfur dioxide (SO2) are able to combine with water and find their way to earth as a form of rains. Furthermore, the lecturer cites the fact that the density of this gas may not be enough to cause a huge extinction.

Finally, the author believes that a strike with a asteroid could initiate this extinction, creating dust in air and causing a lack of sunlight for animals and plants. On the contrary, the professor asserts that there is not a single evidence proving this belief. In addition, she provide an evidence of collicsion, but she further discusses that this evidence dates back to 20 milion years ago, far before the mass extincion; thereby lessening credibillity in author's argument.

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Average: 8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 49, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
... the author believes that a strike with a asteroid could initiate this extinction...
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Line 7, column 281, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'she' must be used with a third-person verb: 'provides'.
Suggestion: provides
...e proving this belief. In addition, she provide an evidence of collicsion, but she furt...
^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, furthermore, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, in addition, such as, on the contrary, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 42.0 30.3222958057 139% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 5.01324503311 279% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1651.0 1373.03311258 120% => OK
No of words: 321.0 270.72406181 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14330218069 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23278547379 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70478908023 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 145.348785872 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.588785046729 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 506.7 419.366225166 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.6719219409 49.2860985944 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.0 110.228320801 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6923076923 21.698381199 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.15384615385 7.06452816374 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.170250595457 0.272083759551 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0630801402862 0.0996497079465 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.146147975864 0.0662205650399 221% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107179177382 0.162205337803 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.11868403046 0.0443174109184 268% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 13.3589403974 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.83 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.45 8.42419426049 112% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 63.6247240618 148% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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