The reading and listening are both about the existence of Edmontosaurus in the region of Alaska's North slope. The author of the passage believes that these dinosaurs survived the cold arctic winter by migrating to the southern hospitable regions.The lecture casts doubt on the claims made by the author.She argues this migratory behavior of the animal.
Firstly, the author says that winter climate of north slope did not support any vegetation. As such he asserts that the Edmontosaur's migrated to temperate regions for food. This point is challenged by the lecturer. She says that the animals did not migrate since winter also had enough food reserves. The lecturer says that during winter there was dead plant matter available for the dinosaurs to live on.
Secondly, the author contends that animals lived in herd that supported their migratory movement. The article notes that modern migratory animal live and migrate as herds. The lecturer rebuts the argument. She suggests that there can be other motive for Edmontosaur's herd behavior. She elaborates on this by mentioning that animals would move in herds in order to defend themselves from their predators.
Finally, the author states that they could travel long distances from the harsh climate to warmer areas. The article establishes that they could run fast for movement. The lecturer on the other hand posits that since the juvenile Edmontosaur's could not move as fast as the adults. She puts forth the idea that adults cannot leave their small ones in the harsh climate which ruled out their long journey. Thus she effectively challenges the claims made in the article.
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...ting to the southern hospitable regions.The lecture casts doubt on the claims made ...
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... doubt on the claims made by the author.She argues this migratory behavior of the a...
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...ate which ruled out their long journey. Thus she effectively challenges the claims ...
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...their long journey. Thus she effectively challenges the claims made in the articl...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, second, secondly, so, thus, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 10.4613686534 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1379.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 266.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18421052632 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03850299372 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47726105184 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 145.348785872 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.556390977444 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 420.3 419.366225166 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.5236222827 49.2860985944 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 81.1176470588 110.228320801 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.6470588235 21.698381199 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.76470588235 7.06452816374 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.340289421893 0.272083759551 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0997479316139 0.0996497079465 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0578264781772 0.0662205650399 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.198022943738 0.162205337803 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0509442712419 0.0443174109184 115% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.3589403974 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 65.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 19.5 Out of 30
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