TPO-47 - Integrated Writing Task Pterosaurs were an ancient group of winged reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs. Many pterosaurs were very large, some as large as a giraffe and with a wingspan of over 12 meters. Paleontologists have long wondered

First of all, the author points out that the Pterosaurs were cold blooded. It is mentioned that cold blooded animals usually have slow metabolism and usually do not have enough energy to fly.This point is challenged by the lecturer. She says that the people discovering fossils, saw that the fossils of Pterosaurs all had hairs on them. This means that the Pterosaurs were all warm blooded. Furthermore, she argues that warm blooded animals usually do have enough energy to fly and flap wings.

Secondly, the author contends that the Pterosaurs were usually all very large and heavy. The article notes that Big and colossal animals are usually too heavy to support themselves when flying. The lecturer rebuts this argument. She suggests that the Pterosaurs had anatomic features. Their bones were hollow making them very light. The hollow bones allowed them to be light enough to fly.

Finally, the author states that most flying mammals, have strong hind legs. The article establishes that large Pterosaurs would have needed to have very strong hind legs, like birds to be able to get off the ground. The lecturer on the other hand posits that not all flying animals used only hind legs. Some, like bats used all four legs. Pterosaurs also used all legs to push themselves off the floor.

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Average: 6.5 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 192, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: This
...sually do not have enough energy to fly.This point is challenged by the lecturer. Sh...
^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, second, secondly, so, first of all, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 19.0 30.3222958057 63% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1084.0 1373.03311258 79% => OK
No of words: 217.0 270.72406181 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.99539170507 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.8380880478 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.25347978087 2.5805825403 87% => OK
Unique words: 114.0 145.348785872 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.52534562212 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 319.5 419.366225166 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 21.2450331126 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.0990629453 49.2860985944 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 67.75 110.228320801 61% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.5625 21.698381199 63% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8125 7.06452816374 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.364737210925 0.272083759551 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.12063795003 0.0996497079465 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0780553344807 0.0662205650399 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.237237224795 0.162205337803 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0486421132058 0.0443174109184 110% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.9 13.3589403974 67% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.74 53.8541721854 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 11.0289183223 65% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.13 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.05 8.42419426049 84% => OK
difficult_words: 38.0 63.6247240618 60% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.498013245 69% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 11.2008830022 62% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?

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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:

para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3

Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).

Don't need a conclusion paragraph.

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Rates: 65.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 19.5 Out of 30
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