Why dinosaurs are not considered to be endotherms
The reading and the lecture both are about the question whether dinosaurs can be considered as endotherms. The author of the reading feel that there are three possible explanations of a dinosaur being an endotherm. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. He explains that scientists all over the world think that the reasons stated in passage are enough to classify dinosaurs as endotherms.
To begin with, the author aurgues that dinosaur fossils have been recovered from the polar regions. The article mentions that like most endotherms, dinosaurs can stay active in such harsh conditions, only if they keep a temperature well high above their surroundings. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that the discovery of fossils does not necessarily mean dinosaurs were endotherms. This is because the polar regions back then were warmer enough for non-endotherms to survive. Additionally, he says that maybe the dinosaurs only lived there in the warmer months and during cold winters migrated or hibernated like most reptiles.
Secondly, the writer suggests that endotherms have a body structure that allows physical activity like running. In the article, it is said that the location of legs on all endotherms is beneath their body, which is also in the case of dinosaurs. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning that position of legs cannot be considered as a valid criteria to classify dinosaurs as endotherms. He elaborates on this by bringing up the point that dinosaurs were of very large shape, and so required a body structure that could support their body weight. And this large size can have many advantages for the dinosaurs.
Finally, the author posits that the bones of endotherms consists of structures known as Haversian canals. Moreover, in the article it is stated that these canals are an important characteristic of endothermy and is responsible for rapid growth of the body. Also, the fossilized bones of dinosaurs contain these canals. In contrast, the lecturer's position is that along with Haversian canals, the dinosaurs also have found to possess growth rings. These are an indicator of measure of how fast body growth takes place. He notes that the growth rings have shown that the dinosaur grows slowly during cooler periods than during the warm climate. These fluctuations between rapid growth and slow growth is in contradiction with the characteristic of endothermy where animals only grow rapidly.
So, this is how the lecturer opposes what is stated in the reading paragraph.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Can you shorten this phrase to just 'whether', or rephrase the sentence to avoid "the question"?
Suggestion: whether
... reading and the lecture both are about the question whether dinosaurs can be considered as endother...
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...tions of a dinosaur being an endotherm. The lecturer challenges the claims made by ...
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Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'criterion'?
Suggestion: criterion
...of legs cannot be considered as a valid criteria to classify dinosaurs as endotherms. He...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, well, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 10.4613686534 220% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 12.0772626932 166% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 22.412803532 174% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 30.3222958057 168% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2151.0 1373.03311258 157% => OK
No of words: 412.0 270.72406181 152% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22087378641 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50530610838 4.04702891845 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77343292704 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 145.348785872 146% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514563106796 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 661.5 419.366225166 158% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 3.25607064018 338% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 13.0662251656 176% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.6924374669 49.2860985944 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.5217391304 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9130434783 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.69565217391 7.06452816374 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 4.33554083885 277% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.248294001418 0.272083759551 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0710111464633 0.0996497079465 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.077612153511 0.0662205650399 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135913251019 0.162205337803 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0982837638999 0.0443174109184 222% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => 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: 12.7 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 63.6247240618 160% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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