Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the specific points made in the reading passage
The reading and lecture are both about the human figured statue which is called Moai. The author of the reading states that although the construction of statue has created a revenue for government, this has adversely affected the island’s culture. The lecturer disagrees. He opposes the idea and attacks each of the claims made in the article.
First, the author of the reading states that owing to the construction, natural resources are exploited in large number. In addition, in order to move large statue wooden track with log rollers are used which are made by cutting down large trees. The professor believes there are flaws in the writer’s position. He contends that statues are transported by using rope not wooden log. Thus, no natural resources are destroyed in the process of transportation.
Secondly, according to the writing because of deforestation, migration of birds to the island is plummeting. Furthermore, fishing industry has caused palm trees to dwindle as boats are made by using the wood. The speaker on other hands points out that major reason for deforestation is moving of rat along with the first settlers to the island instead. The rats are found to attack palm trees in a deadly manner which eventually results in the declining of trees.
Finally, the reading passage also notes that declination of population is elevating with the increment of desertification of island as there is no food available. The professor rebuts this argument. He puts forth the idea that it is just an assumption that population once reached to 20000. The recent research has shown no evidence to prove the population to reach at peak. Moreover, the largest population was just about 2000 all over the history. Hence, construction of statue has nothing to do with decreasing inhabitants.
As we can see, the author and lecturer holds conflicting views on building of Moai statue. The speaker effectively challenges the writer’s argument.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...dversely affected the island’s culture. The lecturer disagrees. He opposes the idea...
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Message: Consider replacing "in a deadly manner" with adverb for "deadly"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...The rats are found to attack palm trees in a deadly manner which eventually results in the declini...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...hown no evidence to prove the population to reach at peak. Moreover, the largest ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, hence, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 30.3222958057 158% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 5.01324503311 419% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1642.0 1373.03311258 120% => OK
No of words: 318.0 270.72406181 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16352201258 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22286093782 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8345180025 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.556603773585 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 495.0 419.366225166 118% => 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: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 13.0662251656 161% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.6908494532 49.2860985944 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 78.1904761905 110.228320801 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.1428571429 21.698381199 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.7619047619 7.06452816374 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 4.45695364238 247% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.112753548292 0.272083759551 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0289690457932 0.0996497079465 29% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0336971577875 0.0662205650399 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0579603512123 0.162205337803 36% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0350680230602 0.0443174109184 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 13.3589403974 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.06 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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