tpo-29
In the reading, the author claims that the migration hypothesis about the survival of edmontosaur in North Slope sounds reasonable and convincing by pointing out 3 reasons of support. However, finding all reasons guestionable and implausible, the lecturer totally repudiates the hypothesis and presents some evidence to the contrary.
At first, the author argues that edmontosaurs were herbivore and had to move to temperate zones to find food during harsh winter; thus, this characteristic corroborates the migration hypothesis. Conversely, the lecturer brings up the idea that edmontosaurs did not have to migrate to find food. Owing to fact that one hundred million years ago North Slope had warmer summer than today, a lot of plants were growing during the summer. The dead bodies of the plants were enough for edmontosaurs needs.
In addition, the reading passage holds the view that due to the excavation of edmonotosaurs fossils from the same site, they lived in herds. The living in herds supports the migration theory. That being said, the lecturer disputes this reason by clarifying the fact that living in herds does not necessarily lead to migration. Other reasons may responsible for living in herds such as, protection against predators. For example, Roosevelt elks, large plant-eating, live in herds but they do not migrate. By living in the herds they just want to protect themeselves against their predators.
Finally, the author draws attention to physical ability of edmontosaurs that they could migrate long distances to reach more hospitable zones as the last point in supporting the migration hypothesis. Yet again, the lecturer dismisses it by pointing out that although adults could move in fast speed, the juvenile were not capable. They moved very slow and made the herds moved slowly too. The adult ones could not leave juveniles behind since they could not survive without the adults' help. So, the edmontosaurs could not have migrated.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, finally, first, however, if, may, so, thus, for example, in addition, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 30.3222958057 152% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1656.0 1373.03311258 121% => OK
No of words: 313.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29073482428 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20616286096 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74647052933 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 145.348785872 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.571884984026 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 496.8 419.366225166 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.23620309051 170% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 47.6901040129 49.2860985944 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.4117647059 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4117647059 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.52941176471 7.06452816374 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.433217417538 0.272083759551 159% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.135384598593 0.0996497079465 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0842439023804 0.0662205650399 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.238195417087 0.162205337803 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0941470646048 0.0443174109184 212% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.4 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 10.7273730684 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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