TPO 05 As early as the twelfth century A.D., the settlements of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico in the American Southwest were notable for their "great houses," massive stone buildings that contain hundreds of rooms and often stand three or four stories high.
both the reading passage and the lecture tries to determine the utility of the great chaco canyon settlements in new mexico. The reading passage aims to provide plausible reasons and supports them with the evidence which the author thinks is sufficient to back his claims. The lecture however casts doubts on each of these theories exposing the holes in each one of them.
To begin with, the reading passage starts with the first theory put forward by the archeologists, that the chaco houses might have been used for purely residential purposes. The author mentions that, the archeologists think each of the houses had 100’s of people in them. The also attribute the great chaco houses as a predecessor to the famed apartment buildings at Taos, new mexico. however, the lecture douses all these claims with a very sound question. if they were used for fire places, where are the fire places that are required to cook food or to even keep the families warm? The lecture agrees that from the outside, these settlements might pass off as houses, but on deeper inspection they fail to justify the claim. if it housed 100’s of families, they had to cook to eat. but these settlements had very few fireplaces. even the largest one’s only had around 10 fireplaces which is very meagre when considering the amount of families, it could house. Thus, the first theory was discarded.
The second theory put forward in the reading passage suggests that, these settlements could have been structures used to store food crops like maize. maize was one of the main crops grown by the chaco people, and it could potentially be stored for a long amount of time without getting spoilt. The size of the house indicated their aptness for this purpose. however, the lecture provides ample reasons to discard this theory as well. The lecture points out the absence of any traces of maize or maize containers in these houses. Had these structures been used as a storehouse, there would have been some fossilized traces of the crop or container used to store them. Thence, the second theory could also be ruled out.
The third and final theory put forward by the author is that, these settlements could have been centers for religious activities or ceremonies. The passage leans on some broken pots found in a mound close to one of the houses. The broken pots were found to have meal remains and assumed to be remains of the food consumed by the people after a religious activity or even a festive meat. however, the lecture provides evidence that discredits this theory as well. The lecture points out that along with the broken pots, there were remains of construction materials like sand or building tools. this implies that the pots could simply have been containers used by the construction workers and the meal remains, leftovers from the food they consumed. this discredits the theory of any ceremonial gathering and rather attributes it to a mere temporary presence during the constructional activity.
In light of all these arguments from both the passage and the lecture, it could be safely assumed that the true utility of the chaco settlements are yet to be discovered.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, however, if, second, so, then, third, thus, well, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 10.4613686534 210% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 7.30242825607 233% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 22.412803532 174% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 73.0 30.3222958057 241% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2668.0 1373.03311258 194% => OK
No of words: 538.0 270.72406181 199% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95910780669 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81610080973 4.04702891845 119% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50417762915 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 145.348785872 162% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.436802973978 0.540411800872 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 810.9 419.366225166 193% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 19.0 8.23620309051 231% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 13.0662251656 214% => Too many sentences.
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.6253500596 49.2860985944 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.2857142857 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2142857143 21.698381199 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.14285714286 7.06452816374 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 14.0 4.19205298013 334% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.27373068433 328% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.41044630502 0.272083759551 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10642081465 0.0996497079465 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0610173775542 0.0662205650399 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.214508984724 0.162205337803 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0948323890074 0.0443174109184 214% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 13.3589403974 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.48 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 63.6247240618 156% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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