TPO-43 - Integrated Writing Task Agnostids were a group of marine animals that became extinct about 450 million years ago. Agnostid fossils can be found in rocks in many areas around the world. From the fossil remains, we know that agnostids were primitiv

According to the reading passage, agnostides were the ancient insects who had lived on the earth about 450 million years ago. The paleontologists have found a plenty of them in the sea floors. These fossils have not enough information which enables the scientists to anticipate about their living styles. The author explains three potential theories about their living methods. However, the professor opposes all of them clearly.

First of all, the author mentions that the agnostides lived as a free-swimming predator since such as many similar arthropods, they might have been the free swimmers too. The professor refutes the author's argument. He states that the agnostides had eyes which enables them to track prays and caught them. So probably they had not been free-swimmers.

Second, the reading passage suggests that the agnostides might have lived on the seafloors. Although the huge number of arthropods had settled on the seafloor, the professor argues that the agnostides had the ability to move fast and this in the conspicuous contrast with the usual seafloor dwellers. Therefore, the proposed statement does not seem logical.

The last theory which the author describes it in the passage is that the agnostides had been parasites. Even though many modern agnostide counterparts live in this manner but as the professor mentions the agnostides lived in the large groups and had the extensive population. So, having the huge amount of a kind of parasites on the animal body means that the animal could not survive. Consequently, based on the professor statements the aforementioned notion cannot be acceptable.

In brief, the professor and author give contradicting idea about agnostide lifestyle. The professor asserts that all the theories have the strong weaknesses. So with the aforementioned theories, the paleontologists cannot explain the real behaviors of the agnostide.

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Average: 8.1 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 34, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
According to the reading passage, agnostides were the ancient insects who ...
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Line 3, column 198, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...swimmers too. The professor refutes the authors argument. He states that the agnostides...
^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, however, if, second, so, therefore, well, in brief, kind of, such as, first of all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1607.0 1373.03311258 117% => OK
No of words: 296.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42905405405 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14784890444 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90931344646 2.5805825403 113% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 145.348785872 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.540540540541 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 477.9 419.366225166 114% => 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: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.8060444355 49.2860985944 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.5789473684 110.228320801 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.5789473684 21.698381199 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.68421052632 7.06452816374 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.380899554316 0.272083759551 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110488651362 0.0996497079465 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0825311175912 0.0662205650399 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.220423605819 0.162205337803 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0446652076217 0.0443174109184 101% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.3589403974 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.2367328918 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 63.6247240618 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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