TPO 29 - Paleontologists have proposed that one of the most common North Slope dinosaurs, the elephant-sized edmontosaur (Edmontosaurus), survived the winter by migrating south to more hospitable regions. Several arguments support the migration hypothesis.
The reading and the lecturer are both about the migration hypothesis of Edmontosaurus during winter time. The author of the reading provides three supporting arguments. The lecturer challenges those three reasons because she believes they are not convincing.
First of all, the author suggests that this migration theory is supported by the dinosaur´s diet. It is noted that those animals ate exclusively plants which means they migrated to more moderate regions during winter to find food. The lecturer, however, argues this idea. It is mentioned that Edmontosaurus did not have to migrate to find food because they could eat a plenty amount of dead plants which grew abundantly during summer time when the temperature was warmer and the sun shined twenty-four hours a day.
Secondly, the writer contends that Edmontosaurus lived in herd which helped them be able to migrate long distances like other modern migratory animals such as buffalo and caribou. In contrast, the lecturer rebuts this idea by mentioning that living in heard can also be a method to protect the dinosaurs from predators. She elaborates on this idea by telling of the fact that there are other kinds of animals like apes living in herd which do not migrate.
Lastly, it is posited by the reading that Edmontosaurus migrated long distances in winter time due to the fact that they were physically capable of. It is said that this kind of dinosaur could run very fast, thus, they could use their power to move to warmer climate. The lecturer´s opinion, on the other hand, is that Edmontosaurus could not migrate such long distances of 1600 kilometers. She puts forth the idea that baby dinosaurs in the herds slowed down the herds and were unable to travel long distances. This, in turn, stopped the adult dinosaurs from migrating.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 170, 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.
...ng provides three supporting arguments. The lecturer challenges those three argumen...
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Line 3, column 433, Rule ID: SUMMER_TIME[2]
Message: Use simply 'summer'.
Suggestion: summer
...ead plants which grew abundantly during summer time when the temperature was warmer and the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, lastly, second, secondly, so, thus, in contrast, kind of, such as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1525.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 300.0 270.72406181 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08333333333 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68851673274 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.54 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 469.8 419.366225166 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.2560761862 49.2860985944 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.666666667 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 21.698381199 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.33333333333 7.06452816374 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.135450887957 0.272083759551 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0504558573298 0.0996497079465 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0481837633886 0.0662205650399 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0898280425934 0.162205337803 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0381863256834 0.0443174109184 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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