The reading passage discusses an interesting topic about the little ice age and provides three mains reasons for support. However, the lecture casts doubts on the claims made by the article. He thinks the causes explained by the reading passage are out of date and opposes to each of the reasons of the article.
First, the reading passage sustains that a possible cause for the dramatic temperature drop during the little ice age was the ocean current disruption by the freshwater of the melted glaciers. This point is rebutted by the lecture who explains that in that scenario only North America would be affected and not all the globe. Oceania and South Africa also experienced the dramatic cold weather as well.
Secondly, the reading passage suggests that volcanic eruption could be another cause of the little ice age. In contrast to this claim, the lecture sustains that the population at that time would have noticed and also reported different phenomenons related to a strong volcanic eruption, like the sky changing color and the dim light during the day due to the dust. Thus, there is not strong evidence of a great volcanic eruption enough to provoke a little ice age.
Finally, the lecture questions the idea given by the article that the cold temperature was due a weakened greenhouse effect because of the declining of agriculture. Challenging this idea, the lecture argues that the amount of time this declining took place was too short to create an effect so extreme as the little ice age.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, thus, well, as to, in contrast, in contrast to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 22.412803532 58% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1262.0 1373.03311258 92% => OK
No of words: 255.0 270.72406181 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94901960784 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99608801488 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4611084858 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 145.348785872 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.541176470588 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 400.5 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.0311413427 49.2860985944 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.727272727 110.228320801 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1818181818 21.698381199 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.81818181818 7.06452816374 139% => 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 : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
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: 0.329506855964 0.272083759551 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.12683407772 0.0996497079465 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106345794157 0.0662205650399 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.194441113266 0.162205337803 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0581451159881 0.0443174109184 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 63.6247240618 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25 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.