TPO 45- Did bees (a type of insect) exist on Earth as early as 200 million years ago? Such a theory is supported by the discovery of very old fossil structures that resemble bee nests. The structures have been found inside 200- million-year-old fossilized trees in the state of Arizona in the southwestern United States. However, many skeptics doubt that the structures were created by bees. The skeptics support their view with several arguments.
The reading and lecture are both about bees that existed 200 million years ago. The author of the reading believes that there are no evidence to support that bees were predominant 200 million years ago. However, the lecturer casts doubts about the claims made in the passage and refutes all the theories presented.
First of all, the author points out that there are no fossilized remains of bees dated 200 million years ago. The article notes that evidenced structure of bees are only available 100 million years old. Conversely, the point is challenged by the lecturer. She says that it is true that there are no records of actual bee that is preserved 200 million years ago. Furthermore, she argues that the tree that preserve the bees are not yet available at that moment and that tree is very rare. In addition, it does not mean that bees did not exist that time, but the tree that produce the right resin for fossilizing the bees are not present.
Secondly, the author contends that there are absence of flowering plants in that era. The article establishes that flowering plants and bees has close mutual relationship with each other, thus, without the presence of one species and its impossible to exist. On the contrary, the lecturer rebuts this argument. She suggests that bees have different diet such as feeding on non flowering plant such as fern and pine tree. Moreover, she elaborates on this by mentioning that later on flowering plant evolve resulting in adapting its diet to a more stable food source. Thus, this standpoint contradicts the passage.
Finally, the article states that structural design of the fossilized structure are similar to nest chamber made by modern bees but they lack finer details of bees nest. The article denotes that the modern bee structure have closed caps with spiral pattern, but the fossilized chamber does not have caps. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that the structure are protected by water propelling substance and when fossilized chambers are analyzed it contained the same kind of water proofing made by the modern bees.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, in addition, kind of, such as, first of all, it is true, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 24.0 12.0772626932 199% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1748.0 1373.03311258 127% => OK
No of words: 352.0 270.72406181 130% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96590909091 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33147354134 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40960007484 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502840909091 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 529.2 419.366225166 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.4850620016 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.1111111111 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5555555556 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.4444444444 7.06452816374 148% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.0592741225311 0.272083759551 22% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0230531806952 0.0996497079465 23% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.019092224022 0.0662205650399 29% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0361815268125 0.162205337803 22% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0192682723779 0.0443174109184 43% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 63.6247240618 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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