TPO-05 - Integrated Writing Task 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 th

The reading passage gives three primary theories about the massive Chaco structures in New Mexico. It states these structures might be used as apartment buildings, storage centers and a place for ceremonies. However, the professor is not convinced with these theories by projecting some serious doubts about the theories.

The first theory as per reading passage states that the buildings were purely used for residential purposes. The author also claims that these buildings represent earlier versions of the present apartment buildings at New Mexico which can accommodate many people. But the professor casts some serious doubts on this theory. He says these buildings look massive from outside but when it is observed from inside, it is not convincing that many people could accommodate because there are not enough fireplaces and rooms for hundreds of people.

The second theory claims that these buildings were used for storing materials like maize. The size of the buildings is well suited to store maize year long. However, the professor refutes this claim. He points out that grains of maize were not uncovered during archaeological excavations. He questions that why there is no spilled maize. He further says that no maize containers were found and how can maize be stored without containers.

The third theory claims that these houses were used for ceremonies because the archaeologists identified an old pile mound which consists of many broken pots. These broken pots might be used for cooking and serving purposes in ceremonies and hence these buildings were centers of ceremonies. However, the professor opposes this claim. He says that along with broken pots, archaeologists revealed many construction materials like sand, stone and other building materials. This pile might be a trash heap of construction materials. Furthermore, he says that workers might used pots for meals and hence broken pots do not support ceremonial centers claim.

Thus, the professor casts some serious doubts on the three theories about the Chaco structures by saying there is not enough space and fireplace, no evidence of spilled maize and containers and the presence of a lot of construction material in the trash heap.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 339, 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.
...ons that why there is no spilled maize. He further says that no maize containers w...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, look, second, so, third, thus, well

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1878.0 1373.03311258 137% => OK
No of words: 352.0 270.72406181 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.33522727273 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33147354134 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65456466953 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.471590909091 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 558.0 419.366225166 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 3.25607064018 307% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 54.9855435546 49.2860985944 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.9 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.3 7.06452816374 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 4.45695364238 224% => 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: 0.31585580104 0.272083759551 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101466529608 0.0996497079465 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0655258568 0.0662205650399 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177475388129 0.162205337803 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0422881362315 0.0443174109184 95% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.4 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.49 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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