The reading and lecture are both about dinosaurs’ surviving during winter. The author of the reading feels that Edmontosaurus survived the winter by migrating south to more hospitable regions. These claims are challenged by the lecturer. She is of the opinion that the arguments supported by the writer are not convincing.
To begin with, the author argues that Edmontosaurs fed exclusively on plants. The article mentions that since there would have been no plants growing during the cold and dark North Slope winter, it appears that the edmontosaur must have left for at least part of the year and migrated to more temperate zones to find food. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. She notes that these dinosaurs did not have to migrate for food because the weather was warmer than today and sun shined twenty four hours a day in the arctic regions. Additionally, she says that if there was no plant to eat, the dinosaurs would eat dead remains of the plant, and the nutrition of these plants was sufficient for edmontosaur to survive.
Secondly, the writer suggests that many edmontosaur skeletons have been unearthed from the same site, and this suggests that edmontosaurs lived in herd. In the article, it is stated that many modern-day migratory animals live and migrate in herds as well. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning that herds do not mean they migrate to the south. For example, herds could protect dinosaurs from predators. She elaborates on this by bringing up the point that Roosevalt Elks also live in herds, but they do not migrate.
Finally, the author posits that to reach more hospitable regions, the edmontosaur had to migrate about 1,600 kilometers southward. To make such a journey, the edmontosaur needed to move at about five kilometers per hour for several weeks, which is certainly could do. In contrast, the professor’s position is that this ability belongs only to adults, but juveniles are not capable of running very fast. Moreover, she notes that these juvenile dinosaurs could not live alone during the harsh artic winters.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 498, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: twenty-four
...er was warmer than today and sun shined twenty four hours a day in the arctic regions. Addi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, well, at least, for example, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 30.3222958057 152% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1761.0 1373.03311258 128% => OK
No of words: 346.0 270.72406181 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08959537572 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31289638616 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67709478971 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 145.348785872 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549132947977 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 536.4 419.366225166 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.0614693805 49.2860985944 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.8333333333 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2222222222 21.698381199 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.66666666667 7.06452816374 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.580158850639 0.272083759551 213% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.1538759186 0.0996497079465 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.117101255832 0.0662205650399 177% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.313615956928 0.162205337803 193% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0764560229802 0.0443174109184 173% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 63.6247240618 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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