TPO 29

Essay topics:

TPO 29

The author believes that Edmontosaurs-a kind of big elephant like dinosaur-who lived in the arctic areas of where is now called Alaska, migrated to southern regions with milder climates during cold winters. He postulates several points to support his belief. The lecturer, however, has the opposite point of view. She explains why the author is not right about his idea, and that his points are not convincing.

First, the author states that since Edmontosaurs' diet merely consists of plants, and plants did not grow in winters, they had to migrate to south where plants were plentiful. On the contrary, the lecturer refutes the author's statement by asserting that plants abounded in summer, provided that sun shined 24 hours a day in that regions. Therefore, Edmontosaurs could consume a plethora of dead plants which had grown in summer.

Second, the author contends that the fact that Edmontosaurs, just like today's animals do, lived in herds indicate that they used to migrate. The lecturer, on the other hand, opposes the author's claim by suggesting that there are many reasons for animals living in herds, such as protection from predators. Thus, migration is not the only reason. She provides Rosevelt Elk as an example.

Finally, the author claims that adult Edmontosaurs had physical characteristics which enabled them to migrate a long distance. In contrast, the lecturer counters the author's claim by arguing that young Edmontosaurs lacked necessary physical abilities that enabled them to migrate long distances. For this reason, they could not migrate, nor could they be left alone to die.

Votes
Average: 8.5 (1 vote)
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Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 218, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... the contrary, the lecturer refutes the authors statement by asserting that plants abou...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, second, so, therefore, thus, in contrast, kind of, such as, on the contrary, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1354.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 258.0 270.72406181 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2480620155 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00778971557 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65709477344 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.616279069767 0.540411800872 114% => 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: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 54.4064446963 49.2860985944 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.7142857143 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4285714286 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.78571428571 7.06452816374 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.259239065268 0.272083759551 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0840926822097 0.0996497079465 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0568643419516 0.0662205650399 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15069974288 0.162205337803 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0186856018333 0.0443174109184 42% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.17 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.18 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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