The reading and lecture are both about the great houses of Chaco canyon in new mexico. The author of reading states that theories suggest these houses were residential , stored food and was used as a ceremonial center. However, the lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article because he thinks that they were not the purpose of these houses.
First of all, the author points that chaco houses were residential and where more than hundreds of families stayed and resembled the houses of native america.This point is challenged by the lecturer. He states that even though the outside resembles like the native Americans the inside did not have enough fireplaces to satisfy the 100 families. Furthermore, he argues that there were only 10 fireplaces and thus claiming that these were not residential.
Secondly, the author contends that these houses were used ad the storage space for maize.The article notes that maize was their major crop supply. The lecturer rebuts the argument. He suggests that there no evidence upon excavation there indicating the supply of maize. Likewise, there were no more remains of maize evident upon observing.
Finally the author argues states that the houses were used as ceremonial center where special services were conducted. The article shows that there were mounts in these houses which when excavated revealed broken pots indicating the remnants their festive meals conducted.The lecturer contradicts this statement. He posits that they were remains of discarded building materials and the pots were assumed to be used by the construction workers who worked used and ate in it.
In conclusion the points made by the lecturer casts doubt on the reading.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, however, likewise, second, secondly, thus, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1436.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 275.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22181818182 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07223819929 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49652141942 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 145.348785872 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.538181818182 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 450.0 419.366225166 107% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.9194614382 49.2860985944 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.571428571 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6428571429 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.42857142857 7.06452816374 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.27499843172 0.272083759551 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0971008759786 0.0996497079465 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0569707489036 0.0662205650399 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142819479315 0.162205337803 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0746092060534 0.0443174109184 168% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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