The reading passage discusses an interesting topic about the migration of the edmontosourus, a dinosaurus that lived one hundred million years ago, from what is today Alaska to the South escaping from the harsh winter and provides three main reasons for support. However, the lecture casts doubts on the claim made by the article. She thinks the edmontosourus did not migrate and could survive during the winter perfectly well, and she opposes to each of the reason of the reading passage.
First, the article sustains that the edmontosuarus travelled long distance looking for food growing better in the South than in the adverse conditions of North during the winter. Challenging this point, the lecture explains that one million years ago the region was warmer than today and enough plants and vegetables could persist to feed the animals. Moreover, the long summer days could provide an excellent condition for plants to flourish in abundance giving a good reservoir of nutrients during the winter.
Secondly, the reading passage claims the edmontosaurus migrated because they lived in herds. On the other hand, the lecture questions this point mentioning that many species live in herds for many motives and not only for migration, like protection. Thus, the reading passage's claim is a very weak reason for support.
Finally, the reading passage argues that the edmonosaurs could travel long distance, with a considerable speed, enough to travel to warmer regions on time for the season change. On the contrary, the lecture refutes the idea of the article, suggesting the younger animal would not have the skill to travel at the same speed as the adults and they would be left behind which would be very improbable to occur.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, look, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, well, on the contrary, on the other hand
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: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1457.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 283.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14840989399 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10153676581 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53234886425 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.572438162544 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 435.6 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => 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: 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: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.5405136255 49.2860985944 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.454545455 110.228320801 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7272727273 21.698381199 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.90909090909 7.06452816374 140% => 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 : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.247824681508 0.272083759551 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0881252194802 0.0996497079465 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0418355278323 0.0662205650399 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141132625606 0.162205337803 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0312887003925 0.0443174109184 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.89 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.89 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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