TPO-45 - Integrated Writing Task Any student of paleontology will be struck by the fact that a great many animals of the past were considerably larger than they are today. This holds true for species ranging from dinosaurs to most mammals. Just why they w

In this set of materials, the lecture and passage both are discussing about, why the animals were so large in past? The reading passage claims that greater oxygen supply , abundant food source and warmer climate are the responsible factors for larger body of early animals. The lecturer however, contradicts with the reasons given in the passage and provides counter arguments to prove his assumptions.

First of all, the article states that during early periods of the earth, it had abundant supply of oxygen which in terms had stimulated the growth within species and flourished large variety of animals. The lecturer disagrees with this fact. He mentions that during early stages of earth there were lot of volcanic activities which made it difficult for animals to breath. This has resulted in lower supply of oxygen to them. So the first claim is false.

In addition, the author argues that there were enormous amount of food source available for animals. They got plenty of nutrition which owes to their huge body size. On the other hand, the speaker posits that even though, there were plenty of plants available for the animals as a food source, they were very less in nutrition. The fossilized study of these plants have proven them to be non-nutritious because there were less amount of carbon-DI-oxide available at that time for the plant growth as a result of contaminated gases in the atmosphere.

Furthermore, warmer climate is another noticeable reason provided in the passage. The orator refutes to this claim and states that warmer climate is not suitable for larger bodies. In order to maintain body temperature they need to cool off immediately. This will consume lot of energy. This cannot be the reason for a huge body size either.

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Average: 8.3 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 170, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...assage claims that greater oxygen supply , abundant food source and warmer climate...
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Line 1, column 244, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... climate are the responsible factors for larger body of early animals. The lectur...
^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, however, if, so, in addition, as a result, first of all, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1469.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 292.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03082191781 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54232537798 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 145.348785872 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.537671232877 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 465.3 419.366225166 111% => 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.
Interrogative: 1.0 0.116997792494 855% => Less interrogative sentences wanted.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 56.6142779746 49.2860985944 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.4117647059 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1764705882 21.698381199 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.52941176471 7.06452816374 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.338107126428 0.272083759551 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0970572442034 0.0996497079465 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0533502900453 0.0662205650399 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.193372998154 0.162205337803 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0472388848261 0.0443174109184 107% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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