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 dodo which once resided in Indian Ocean. The author of the reading states that owing to the over hunting by humans now it is in the state of extinction. The lecturer disagrees. He mentions that there are other contributing factors rather then the human’s hunting behind it and attacks each of the claims made in the article.
First, the author begins by stating that although they are large in size they have weak feather which lead them to become easy prey to the hunters. The professor believes there are flaws in the writer’s position. He contends dodos are horrible in taste. In addition, there are other local desirable species prevailing there that are better in taste. Therefore, it does not make any sense to kill dodos while there are other alternatives available.
Secondly, according to the writing they are friendly in nature. Furthermore, they are susceptible to welcome new guest without any fear and this results their sudden death. The speaker on other hand points out that though they are of amicable nature, human did not hunt them however the other species they brought along with them. Dodos are likely to be attacked by other animals instead.
Finally, the reading passage also notes that there has been evidence of human caves found with numerous bone of dodos. The professor rebuts this argument. He puts forth the idea that behind the extinction of dodos there is a great hand of other species as mentioned earlier. Moreover, owing to the introduction of new animals, they initiate to build their home along with the destruction of habitat of dodos. Hence, humans are not the compelling reason for dodos decrement.
As we can see, the author and lecturer holds conflicting views on dodos extinction. The speaker effectively challenges the writer’s argument.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 197, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...s now it is in the state of extinction. The lecturer disagrees. He mentions that th...
^^^
Line 1, column 282, Rule ID: RATHER_THEN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'than'? 'than' is used for comparisons, 'then' is an expression of time.
Suggestion: than
...e are other contributing factors rather then the human’s hunting behind it and attac...
^^^^
Line 2, column 60, Rule ID: ADJECTIVE_IN_ATTRIBUTE[1]
Message: A more concise phrase may lose no meaning and sound more powerful.
Suggestion: large
...egins by stating that although they are large in size they have weak feather which lead them ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 67, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'dodos'' or 'dodo's'?
Suggestion: dodos'; dodo's
...and lecturer holds conflicting views on dodos extinction. The speaker effectively cha...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, hence, however, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, while, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1532.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 305.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02295081967 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47410887538 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.554098360656 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 478.8 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => 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: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.517885456 49.2860985944 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 76.6 110.228320801 69% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.25 21.698381199 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.15 7.06452816374 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.129862760207 0.272083759551 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0336985215261 0.0996497079465 34% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0325290606093 0.0662205650399 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0659313995918 0.162205337803 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0374759871588 0.0443174109184 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.8 13.3589403974 73% => 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: 11.24 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => 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: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 197, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...s now it is in the state of extinction. The lecturer disagrees. He mentions that th...
^^^
Line 1, column 282, Rule ID: RATHER_THEN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'than'? 'than' is used for comparisons, 'then' is an expression of time.
Suggestion: than
...e are other contributing factors rather then the human’s hunting behind it and attac...
^^^^
Line 2, column 60, Rule ID: ADJECTIVE_IN_ATTRIBUTE[1]
Message: A more concise phrase may lose no meaning and sound more powerful.
Suggestion: large
...egins by stating that although they are large in size they have weak feather which lead them ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 67, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'dodos'' or 'dodo's'?
Suggestion: dodos'; dodo's
...and lecturer holds conflicting views on dodos extinction. The speaker effectively cha...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, hence, however, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, while, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1532.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 305.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02295081967 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47410887538 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.554098360656 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 478.8 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => 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: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.517885456 49.2860985944 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 76.6 110.228320801 69% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.25 21.698381199 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.15 7.06452816374 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.129862760207 0.272083759551 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0336985215261 0.0996497079465 34% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0325290606093 0.0662205650399 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0659313995918 0.162205337803 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0374759871588 0.0443174109184 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.8 13.3589403974 73% => 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: 11.24 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => 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: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.