tpo31
Both the reading and lecture are about Sinosauropteryx which is a kind of dinosaur. A pattern of line on the skeletal bone suggests that this animal had been feather. The reading provides three reasons that this pattern line is not related to a feather and then supports them. The professor casts doubt on the claims made in the article and finds all arguments dubious.
First of all, the author of reading declares that since this fossil was found in volcanic ash; consequently, these lines can associated with decomposition procedure skin into fibers after death. This point is challenged by the lecturer. She points out that researchers could obtain a huge number of fossils from other animals which had buried in volcanic ash and their body structures have been preserved very well without any change; therefore, the fossil structure of Sinosauropteryx fails to be questionable.
Secondly, the article contends that some scientists believe that dinosaurs had been frills in some parts of their body- it is kind of ornamental fan shaped structure-, so it may have been frill instead of lines of a feather; in the contrast, the lecturer claims that there is a chemical different between a feather and a frill. Unlike a frill, a feather includes a chemical substance such as protein. Fortunately, researchers could gain this aforementioned substance in Sinosauropteryx's fossil.
Finally, the reading passage states that the feathers provide some advantages for the animals such as ability for flight or regulating internal temperature; however, Sinosauropteryx's fossil revealed that the mentioned pattern is located on the backbone and the tail; hence, it could have been useless. This argument is rebutted by the professor again and she expresses that another function of feather is that some animals with having colorful feathers, are able to attract their mate- this behavior is called displace activity- like Pickup bird. She elaborates on this by mentioning that a study on Sinosauropteryx's fossil caused researchers to discover that Sinosauropteryx had a colorful feather including orange and white color.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, finally, first, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, well, kind of, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1790.0 1373.03311258 130% => OK
No of words: 334.0 270.72406181 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35928143713 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27500489853 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99918116641 2.5805825403 116% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 145.348785872 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.568862275449 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 553.5 419.366225166 132% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
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: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 94.1409619138 49.2860985944 191% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.692307692 110.228320801 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.6923076923 21.698381199 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.3846153846 7.06452816374 147% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.413372912609 0.272083759551 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.1319421694 0.0996497079465 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0724607409773 0.0662205650399 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.245125146232 0.162205337803 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0432106472918 0.0443174109184 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 13.3589403974 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 53.8541721854 70% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.0289183223 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.2367328918 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.08 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 63.6247240618 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
---------------------
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.