The wooly mammoth was a prehistoric animal that resembled an elephant and lived during the Ica Age.
The reading and the lecture are both about the factors which could have been responsible for extinction of wooly mammoth. According to the reading passage there were two main reasons which could have let to the dramatic decline in the population of mammoth, those reasons are global warming and overhunting. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article. By using the following evidence she posits that neither climate change nor overhunting would have led to the rapid decline in population of wooly mammoth.
To begin with, there is no definite evidence that the warming of climate actually affected the mammoth. The lecturer agrees that the cool environment is more friendly to the mammoth. She contends that the mammoth could just move to the north. This point differs from the author’s according to which the change in climate could have been responsible for the extinction of mammoth.
Furthermore, the professor posits that the mammoth did not have any natural predators. She weakens the author’s point by drawing a parallel between a modern lion and an ancient tiger, which was not large enough to hunt mammoth. This counters the point according to which a saber-toothed tiger could break through thick skin of a mammoth killing it.
By the same token, ancient people could not have been responsible for the extinction of the mammoth just because the mammoth was a suitable animal for humans’ needs. She contends that ancestors could use the bones, skin and meet from other preys which are more easy to hunt on such as buffalos or bears. This point differs from one in the article, according to which humans are also responsible for overhunting the mammoth.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, furthermore, if, so, thus, such as, to begin with, by the same token
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1545.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 312.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95192307692 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20279927342 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54924985099 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 145.348785872 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.474358974359 0.540411800872 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 471.6 419.366225166 112% => 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: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.4721104921 49.2860985944 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.5625 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.25 7.06452816374 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.310539428269 0.272083759551 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.112261097977 0.0996497079465 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0808645666163 0.0662205650399 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.194423221927 0.162205337803 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.056938283994 0.0443174109184 128% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.43 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.46 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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