Passage Altruism is a type of behavior in which an animal sacrifices its own interest for that of another animal or group of animals Altruism is the opposite of selfishness individuals performing altruistic acts gain nothing for themselves Examples of a

The article states that altruism is a type of behaviour in which an animal sacrifices its own interest for another animal or group of animals and supports this statement by providing two instances. The professor contradicts this claim by stating that new findings in science force us to reexamine our earlier beliefs and refutes each of the authors instances.
First, the reading states that the unselfish acts among humans include sharing of food with strangers or donation of body organs to family members or strangers. However, the professor refutes this point by saying that the act of donation of an organ to a fellow human being may earn the donor praise from the family members and the society. This praise may increase that donor's self worth. This could be considered as a materialistic reward to the donor which then would nullify the feeling of altruism or selflessness from the act of donating organs.
Second, the article posits in species like meerkats who are mammals, an individual stands guard, looking out for predators while the other members look for food and eat it. It states that thus, the standing guard stays hungry while the other meerkats have food which is an act of altruism. But the professor contradicts this point by stating the findings which say that the meerkats have their food before standing guard and hence the guard is not hungry while guarding the group.
Third, the reading claims that the guard has to issue an alarm which alerts the other members of the group to flee from the approaching predator and thus places the guard in the claws of danger. However, the professor opposes this point by explaining that when the other members hear the alarm, they tend to either move away or get together and thus cause movement which tends to attract the attention of the predator from the guard onto themselves. Hence, the guard is not at danger.
We also learn that the guard takes his position near a burrow and thus, it is easier for him to hide from the predator than it is for the other members of the group.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 53, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
...article posits in species like meerkats who are mammals, an individual stands guard, lo...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, however, if, look, may, second, so, then, third, thus, while, as to

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 30.3222958057 152% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1697.0 1373.03311258 124% => OK
No of words: 355.0 270.72406181 131% => OK
Chars per words: 4.78028169014 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34067318298 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.33718634089 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498591549296 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 495.9 419.366225166 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 57.4886662357 49.2860985944 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.538461538 110.228320801 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.3076923077 21.698381199 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.07692307692 7.06452816374 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.213834769298 0.272083759551 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0834705664929 0.0996497079465 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.129524325838 0.0662205650399 196% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130003563446 0.162205337803 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.107835005243 0.0443174109184 243% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.3589403974 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.99 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.74 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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