Pluto is recognised as a planet for a long time now. However, recently, Pluto lost its status as a planet and is demoted to a dwarf planet status after numerous debates. People famously refer to these debates as "Pluto wars". In the reading, the author provides more details about the reasoning behind the decision. However, the lecturer provides reasons for Pluto to consider as a planet.
To begin with, the author states that the vote took place at the International Astronomical Union Conference and it was decided that Pluto has to be dwarf planet. However, the lecturer points out that only ten percent of Astronomers attended the conference. Even out of these ten percent, most of them left the conference before the voting. So, the decision is not based on Astronomers worldwide. He also claims that suppose the conference had electrical voting, there is a chance that the decision about the Pluto status could have been different.
Furthermore, the reading states that there are number of planetary objects similar to Pluto and they are not classified as planets. The lecturer refutes this point by saying that if the conference had electrical voting, Astronomers would have chosen Pluto and other two objects as planets instead of demoting Pluto to dwarf planet status.
Finally, the reading says that even though it is a bad day for Pluto lovers, people in general have accepted the idea and the next generation of children will grow with the new idea. The lecturer contradicts this point by explaining that there has been number of petitions to withdraw the decision. In some parts of the world, people celebrate Pluto day as well. So, it is hard for people to accept the change.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, furthermore, however, if, so, well, as to, in general, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1428.0 1373.03311258 104% => OK
No of words: 285.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01052631579 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10876417139 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60268109982 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522807017544 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 449.1 419.366225166 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => 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: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 47.6697214566 49.2860985944 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.25 110.228320801 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8125 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.1875 7.06452816374 73% => 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 : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.27373068433 211% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.282867402955 0.272083759551 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0909914002115 0.0996497079465 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.089538661871 0.0662205650399 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167063542969 0.162205337803 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0624770500505 0.0443174109184 141% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 13.3589403974 83% => 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: 11.48 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.03 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => 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: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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