TPO-29 - Integrated Writing Task Large numbers of dinosaur fossils have been discovered in deposits on Alaska's North Slope, a region that today experiences an extremely cold,arctic climate. One hundred million years ago, when those dinosaurs were alive,
The reading passage states that the edmontosaur, the most common North Slope dinosaurs, lived in the inhospitable environment of the North Slope and made it possible by migrating south to more temperate regions, and provides three reasons to support the claim. The professor, meanwhile, casts serious doubts on this idea and believes that none of these reasons are convincing enough and refutes all the author's reasons.
First, the lecturer asserts that the climate of the North Slope was warmer in the past and the condition was good enough for the vegetation to grow efficiently. She adds that in the winter dead nutritious plant can contribute to dinosaurs to survive the harsh weather. However, the reading passage claims that the diet of the edmontosaur can support the migration hypothesis because as no plants were growing during the cold winter, they must have migrated to find more temperate zone for feeding themselves.
Second, the reading passage declares that as edmontosaur skeletons have been discovered in the same place, they might have lived and migrated in herds like many modern-day migratory animals, while the professor makes the argument that this claim is problematic. She comments that they could use this method to protect themselves from the potential predators rather than migration. Moreover, there is a modem instance for this claim that Elks lives in a herd in the aim of protection, not migration.
Third, although the passage posits that edmontosaur were physically capable of migrating long distance because they have the ability to run swiftly, the lecturer thinks that this was only right about the adult edmontosaurs, not juveniles. As a matter of fact, as young edmontosaurs cannot move very fast, adult edmontosaurs had to stay around them in the cold North Slope.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, moreover, second, so, third, while, as a matter of fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1517.0 1373.03311258 110% => OK
No of words: 290.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23103448276 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67566876301 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.593103448276 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 460.8 419.366225166 110% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less 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: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 29.0 21.2450331126 137% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 60.0274104056 49.2860985944 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 151.7 110.228320801 138% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.0 21.698381199 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0 7.06452816374 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.444412364659 0.272083759551 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.155882957584 0.0996497079465 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103350010078 0.0662205650399 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.254289131739 0.162205337803 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.036988568696 0.0443174109184 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.7 13.3589403974 132% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 53.8541721854 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.0289183223 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.65 12.2367328918 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.16 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.498013245 130% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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