Summarize the points in the lecture being sure to explain how they oppose the points in the reading passage
The author of the reading passage discusses altruism in animals and humans which is not being selfish and helping others. The lecturer refutes the points made in the reading passage and supports her points by suitable explanations.
Firstly the reading passage discusses altruism in an animal specie Meerkat, in which an individual Meerkat acts as a sentinal ie standing guard and looking out for predators while other group hunts for food or eat the obtained food. If a predator is seen it alerts the group by giving an alarm cry so that other group can run and seek shelter and putting itself in grave danger. The Lecturer is not convinced with the reading passage and refutes by stating following points. Scientists propose that the sentinal Meerkat eats its meal before it stands as a guard and observer predators. In addition to this it observes for the predator by remaining close to its burrow so that it can escape very easily where as other Meerkat's might take time to escape as they are far away for hunting or eating food. Moreover when Sentinal Meerkat gives an Alarm other Meerkat's might gather together or run to their burrow which implies other Meerkat's are in more danger than Sentinal Meerkat and the lecturer does not classify it as an Altruistic behavior.
Secondly, the passage posits that human beings also show altruistic behavior when they share food, donate body organs to family members or even to strangers to which the lecturer contradicts this position by stating that the behavior presented above is not truly a selfless act because they are often rewarded not by materialistic things but by increased sense of worthiness. For instance, when a person donates his kidney, the donor is often praised by the society and the person who receives the kidney also appreciates his behavior which increases sense of worthiness.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 703, Rule ID: WHERE_AS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'whereas'?
Suggestion: whereas
...urrow so that it can escape very easily where as other Meerkats might take time to escap...
^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 802, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Moreover,
...re far away for hunting or eating food. Moreover when Sentinal Meerkat gives an Alarm ot...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, look, moreover, second, secondly, so, while, for instance, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 7.30242825607 205% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => 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: 1544.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 310.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98064516129 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19604776685 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47527629083 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.535483870968 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 477.0 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 31.0 21.2450331126 146% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 82.1294100795 49.2860985944 167% => OK
Chars per sentence: 154.4 110.228320801 140% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.0 21.698381199 143% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.1 7.06452816374 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.161858244834 0.272083759551 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0842825596647 0.0996497079465 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105400953645 0.0662205650399 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158137306715 0.162205337803 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.128635216587 0.0443174109184 290% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.5 13.3589403974 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.47 53.8541721854 90% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.0289183223 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.2 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.99 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 10.498013245 137% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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