TPO 31- Task 1

Essay topics

The article and the reading are contradicting with each other, in terms of evidence of fine lining on fossils of Sinosauripteryx dinosaurs. The author of the reading believes that the lining present on fossils cannot be feathered of dinosaurs and presents three theories against it. However, the lecturer casts doubt about the claim presented in the article and negates three ideas explained in the paragraph.
First of all, according to the reading, the fine line structure might have been developed after the dinosaur's death, and the skin might be decomposed into fibers, and those lines were misinterpreted as evidence of feathers. On the contrary, the speaker undermines the argument presented in the article. Furthermore, he discusses that it could not be formed after decomposition since they have found well-preserved fossils of other animals under volcanic ash at the same site. Hence, the theory of decomposition for skin is totally wrong.
Secondly, the author posits that the fine lines are more more likely to be fossilized remains of frills since many dinosaurs had frills growing out of some parts of their body. Although the lecturer refutes this by asserting that the feathers and frills contain total different chemical compositions where feathers contain rich in protein and frills have more keratin components. Also, the archaeologists found the fine lines were contained more protein which is the proof of feathers but not the frills.
Finally, it is mentioned in the paragraph that the structure of fine lines would have been useless for flight since it was located along the backbone and the tail of the animal which suggests that the lines do not present feathers. On the other hand, speakers again opposed the solution by giving an example of a peacock which has colorful feathers located at the backbone, and they display that colorful feathers to attract a mate. Thus, it might be possible that the feathers that were found from dinosaurs serve the same purpose since researchers have found those colorful too. Therefore, this theory is also not convincing and rejected by the lecturer.

Votes
Average: 8 (1 vote)
Essay Categories

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 101, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'dinosaurs'' or 'dinosaur's'?
Suggestion: dinosaurs'; dinosaur's
...ure might have been developed after the dinosaurs death, and the skin might be decomposed...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 53, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: more
...e author posits that the fine lines are more more likely to be fossilized remains of fril...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 53, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[2]
Message: Use only 'more' (without 'more') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: more
...e author posits that the fine lines are more more likely to be fossilized remains of fril...
^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, well, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 30.3222958057 155% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1776.0 1373.03311258 129% => OK
No of words: 342.0 270.72406181 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19298245614 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30037696126 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68859609373 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517543859649 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 546.3 419.366225166 130% => 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: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.3919685386 49.2860985944 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.857142857 110.228320801 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4285714286 21.698381199 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.9285714286 7.06452816374 155% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.404566818658 0.272083759551 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.127855263507 0.0996497079465 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.112858071049 0.0662205650399 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.237344466796 0.162205337803 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0446249769292 0.0443174109184 101% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.3589403974 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 63.6247240618 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => 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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