several ways of detecting earthquakes.
The reading and the lecture are about various ways to detect earthquakes. The author of the reading feels that earthquakes can be identified by animal behavior, headaches of people, and radon emission. However, the tutor challenges all the points made by the author and elaborates hereunder.
First of all, the professor implies that predicting earthquakes by the behaviour of animals is not true. He further elaborates by saying that animals react even for a mild shaking of the ground, on which we cannot rely on them. He also adds the point that minor shaking will not emphasize an earthquake. Moreover, the minor change will not lead to earthquakes. On the contrary, the reading posits that earthquakes can be identified through animal behavior as they have sensory abilities.
Secondly, the passage mentions that earthquakes can be predicted by the headaches occurring to people. As the human brain has a mineral called magnetite, this mineral will predict the changes in the electromagnetic field by causing illness to people. On the other hand, the tutor argues this point by saying that headaches are the rarest symptoms of earthquakes. Even more, a human brain has a minute amount of magnetite where its sensitivity is barely influenced.
Finally, the academician implies that measuring radon emissions is not a practical way to predict earthquakes, because radon can be emitted through various impacts like man-made destruction processes or even with an impact of rock fracture. Furthermore, he says that relying on radon emission is just responded to false alarms. This particular point is contradicted in writing. The writing indicates that by measuring radon emissions will be helpful in detecting the earthquakes as most of the rocks emit radon before an earthquake hits.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => 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: 1510.0 1373.03311258 110% => OK
No of words: 285.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29824561404 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10876417139 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89603585952 2.5805825403 112% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.540350877193 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 461.7 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.5715278373 49.2860985944 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.375 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8125 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0 7.06452816374 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.154862157651 0.272083759551 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.050857287716 0.0996497079465 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.072544483772 0.0662205650399 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0995553251332 0.162205337803 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0530844244696 0.0443174109184 120% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.16 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.8 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 63.6247240618 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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