The reading and the lecture are about the North Slope dinosaur, the elephant-sized Edmontosaurus. The reading hypothesizes that Edmontosaur survived the cold Alaskan winters by migrating South to more hospitable regions. The lecture refutes the readings assumptions stating that the Edmontosaur did not migrate.
First, the reading states that the Edmontosaurus fed exclusively on plants. And that because of the colder winters hundreds of millions of years ago, there would be no plants for the Edmontosaur to survive on, and so the dinosaur had to migrate South. However, the professor says the Edmontosaur need not have migrated for food. She states that the summer temperatures were warmer back then and that the 24 hour long days would allow for better growing conditions for vegetation. This would leave more dead plant matter in the winter months, more than sufficient for the Edmontosaurus to survive on.
Second, the reading states that the herd behavior of the Edmontosaur can be used to further move forward the migration hypothesis. However, the professor claims that there are many species that live which live in herds for reasons such as the extra protection and not migration. The professor gives an example of the Roosevelt Elk, an Elk that lives in herds in the Western United States. These Elks do not migrate and the example is provided to refute the readings claims.
Finally, the reading states that the Edmontosaurus were physically capable of migrating long distances. But the professor points out that this theory does not take into account the juvenile Edmontosaurus which would have been very weak and being incapable of migrating such long distances on their own. She further states that the juveniles could not have survived on their own, so migration was impossible. For the above reasons, the lecturer concludes that the migration hypothesis is not convincing.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 222, 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.
...ating South to more hospitable regions. The lecture refutes the readings assumption...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, second, so, then, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1598.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 303.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27392739274 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76252804075 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 145.348785872 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541254125413 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 485.1 419.366225166 116% => 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
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.2170804387 49.2860985944 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.875 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9375 21.698381199 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.4375 7.06452816374 49% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.417163811463 0.272083759551 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.143236913605 0.0996497079465 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0723858283916 0.0662205650399 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.249565146986 0.162205337803 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.027895503861 0.0443174109184 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => 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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