three beliefs on elephants and some information about them

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three beliefs on elephants and some information about them

The text discusses three beliefs about elephants and provides some evidence to support them. On the other hand, the professor goes against stated claims and by mentioning some contradictory information, states why she disagrees with the author.

First, the text claims that elephants are aware of their death. It adds that when an elephant gets old and realizes it is near to death, will leave its herd and continue to live near water resources, called elephant graveyards, till it dies. In contrast, the professor states we cannot assume elephant are aware of their death just by the fact they leave their herds as they get old. She continues that when an elephant gets old, cannot chew some special foods. As a result, it prefers to go for looking some softer vegetation which are found near the water resources and lives there till it dies.

Second, as the text, elephants are the only animals besides humans which have artistic abilities and can paint. The professor goes against this point and states that those elephants which can paint are just trained and are not aware of the things they have painted. She also adds that elephants have sensitive ears, and their trainers can teach them to paint some straight lines, and encourage them to repeat their work by touching their ears.

Third, the author claims that elephants are afraid of mice, and as a proof, mentions one of the Roman philosophers who had the same idea. The professor refutes this point and states that the fear of mice is just due to this point that elephants are not familiar with them, and it is a natural instinct. We can also hear from her that elephants which are living in zoos know mice and have realized that they are not a threat for them. As a result, these elephants do not show any sign of being scared by them. In this way, she disagrees with the claim made by the author.

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Average: 7.1 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, first, look, second, so, third, in contrast, as a result, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 22.412803532 205% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1542.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 328.0 270.72406181 121% => OK
Chars per words: 4.7012195122 5.08290768461 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.24498747627 2.5805825403 87% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 145.348785872 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 456.3 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.1371378048 49.2860985944 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.8 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8666666667 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06452816374 85% => 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 : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.281742165026 0.272083759551 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106234191336 0.0996497079465 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.12077319057 0.0662205650399 182% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.187256122608 0.162205337803 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.086394989144 0.0443174109184 195% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 53.8541721854 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.98 12.2367328918 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.18 8.42419426049 85% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 63.6247240618 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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