TPO 31

Essay topics:

TPO 31

The reading and lecture are about whether Sinosauropteryx had feather or not. Points of critic mentioned in the reading states that the dinosaur unlikely had feather. The lecturer is opinion of these explanations are not compelling.

Firstly, the author posits that the pattern of lines was produced after the dinosaur died rather than when it was alive. Additionally, it is remarked that its skin was decomposed and altered into fibers. The lecturer challenged this idea by claiming that fossils of other species found from the same site have not been decomposed and was maintained attractively. For this reason, the idea that lines were caused by decaying process may be faulty.

Secondly, according to the reading, many dinosaurs had frills which grows from the body and the lines probably caused by frills. Nonetheless, the lecturer states that there are chemical differences between frills and feathers. She claims that the certain substance found from the fossils is solid evidence that the species had not frills due to absence of the substance in frills.

Finally, the author mentions that feather is utilized for flying or saving body heat and position of feather would not be employed for this purpose because it was on the backbone and tail. The lecturer, however, says that some certain animals use the feather to fascinate the mate rather than flying or insulating itself from cold temperature. Moreover, evidence proved that the lines were orange and white, which explains the feathers were utilized for displaying purpose.

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Average: 8.5 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 63, Rule ID: HAD_VBP[1]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'feathered'.
Suggestion: feathered
...e are about whether Sinosauropteryx had feather or not. Points of critic mentioned in t...
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Line 1, column 63, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'feathered'.
Suggestion: feathered
...e are about whether Sinosauropteryx had feather or not. Points of critic mentioned in t...
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Line 1, column 159, Rule ID: HAD_VBP[1]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'feathered'.
Suggestion: feathered
...g states that the dinosaur unlikely had feather. The lecturer is opinion of these expla...
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Line 1, column 159, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'feathered'.
Suggestion: feathered
...g states that the dinosaur unlikely had feather. The lecturer is opinion of these expla...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, moreover, nonetheless, second, secondly, so

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1300.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 247.0 270.72406181 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26315789474 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96437052324 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58430918605 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.550607287449 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 396.0 419.366225166 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
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: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.7809765597 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.0 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.61538461538 7.06452816374 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.322777055365 0.272083759551 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103527729478 0.0996497079465 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0508279308882 0.0662205650399 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.173992210346 0.162205337803 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0558410676656 0.0443174109184 126% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.3589403974 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => 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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