TPO13- Question : Summarise the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they case doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.
The lecture and the reading are both about private collectors who sell and buy fossils. The author believes that are three reasons to avoid this actions made by the private collectors. The lecture, however, challenges the claims made by the author. She is of the opinion that these explanations are faulty.
To begin with, the author points out that the sale and purchase making it for the public to see fossils can lead to a decline in public interest in fossils. This specific argument is refuted by the lecture. She argues that fossils which have been selling for privative collectors provide for public museums a change to display more fossils. Hence, she thinks that the public will not suffer, but they will have more advantages from these actions.
Secondly, the writer posits that private collectors will decrease access of scientists to fossils. In contrast, the lecture says that each fossils need to be analyzed by some scientists to identify the age and value of the fossils. For this reason, she shows the opinion that the access of fossils to scientists will not diminish.
Finally, the reading suggests that commercial fossil collectors often destroy valuable scientific evidence. Also, the author points out that most commercial fossil collectors are untrained or uninterested in carrying out the careful field work and documentation. In the other hand, the lecture explains that is better discover new fossil than never discover them.
In a nutshell, although the reading and the lecture are both about private fossil collectors, the three main points made in the reading are effectively refused by the lecture.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 141, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...elieves that are three reasons to avoid this actions made by the private collectors....
^^^^
Line 1, column 186, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...actions made by the private collectors. The lecture, however, challenges the claims...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => 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: 1376.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 265.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19245283019 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03470204552 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.549418993 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.501886792453 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 414.0 419.366225166 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.6551383238 49.2860985944 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.7333333333 110.228320801 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6666666667 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.86666666667 7.06452816374 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.468255213601 0.272083759551 172% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.150259238637 0.0996497079465 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.112906423234 0.0662205650399 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.243582017676 0.162205337803 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.115314402599 0.0443174109184 260% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => 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: 12.53 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
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: 61.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 141, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...elieves that are three reasons to avoid this actions made by the private collectors....
^^^^
Line 1, column 186, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...actions made by the private collectors. The lecture, however, challenges the claims...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => 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: 1376.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 265.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19245283019 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03470204552 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.549418993 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.501886792453 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 414.0 419.366225166 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.6551383238 49.2860985944 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.7333333333 110.228320801 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6666666667 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.86666666667 7.06452816374 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.468255213601 0.272083759551 172% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.150259238637 0.0996497079465 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.112906423234 0.0662205650399 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.243582017676 0.162205337803 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.115314402599 0.0443174109184 260% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => 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: 12.53 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
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: 61.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.