The reading and the lecture are both about a North Slope dinosaur, the elephant-sized edmontosaur. The passage supports the hypothesis that edmontosaurs survived the winter migrating to warmer regions. On the other hand, according to the lecture, the hypothesis that edmontosaurs migrated every winter is not convincing.
First, on the reading, the author mentions that edmontosaurs’ diet holds the hypothesis that they used to migrate, since no plants were growing during North Slope winter. However, the lecturer says that the edmontosaurs did not have to migrate to find food. According to her, a hundred million of years ago, the temperature was warmer than today, and having extensive daylight during, reaching 24 hours of sun at the pick of summer. This resulted in an environment with extremely good conditions to the growth of plans, and during winter, when this vegetation died, a lot of nutritional food could be easily found by the edmontosaurs.
Second, the reading supports the idea that dead edmontosaurs could be found on the same site, which suggests that they used to live in herds and migrate. The author uses modern migratory animals as an example, like caribou and buffalo, in order to support the migration hypothesis. Nevertheless, the lecturer mentions that it is not possible to affirm that edmontosaurs used to migrate just because they lived in herds. Animals leave in herds for several reasons, like having extra protection from predators, which is useful to animals who live in the same area as well. She uses the Roosevelt Elk as a modern example to illustrate this, since they are large plant eaters which leaves in herds but do not migrate.
Third, the passage affirms that edmontosaurs were capable of migrating extensive distances in order to reach regions with warmer conditions. In contrast with this, according to the lecture, although the fact that adult edmontosaurs were strong enough to migrate long distances, younger edmontosaurs, the juveniles, were not physically capable to travel great distances required to reach warmer territories. In light of this, young edmontosaurs were so slow that would be impossible to the herd reach the destination. In addition, she states that the adults could not leave the juveniles behind because they were incapable of surviving on their own, so the whole herd had to stay and survive to the cold weather conditions together.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 145, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[2]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: contrast,
...each regions with warmer conditions. In contrast with this, according to the lecture, al...
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Line 6, column 510, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ible to the herd reach the destination. In addition, she states that the adults co...
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Line 6, column 560, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'could' requires the base form of the verb: 'leave'
Suggestion: leave
...n, she states that the adults could not left the juveniles behind because they were ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, nevertheless, second, so, third, well, in addition, in contrast, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 30.3222958057 201% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2019.0 1373.03311258 147% => OK
No of words: 385.0 270.72406181 142% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.24415584416 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4296068528 4.04702891845 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82315797431 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 145.348785872 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52987012987 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 618.3 419.366225166 147% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 1.25165562914 399% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 14.0 2.5761589404 543% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.4254994344 49.2860985944 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.1875 110.228320801 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0625 21.698381199 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.4375 7.06452816374 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.472316192291 0.272083759551 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.159305755412 0.0996497079465 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0513454778714 0.0662205650399 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.285208112959 0.162205337803 176% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0374366448047 0.0443174109184 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 13.3589403974 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 63.6247240618 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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