TPO 13- Private collectors have been selling and buying fossils, the petrified remains of ancient organisms, ever since the eighteenth century. In recent years, however, the sale of fossils, particularly of dinosaurs and other large vertebrates, has grown into a big business. Rare and important fossils are now being sold to private ownership for millions of dollars. This is an unfortunate development for both scientists and the general public.
The reading and the lecture are both about fossils, selling of which has become a big business. The author of the article believes that this is a problem which has a lot of disadvantages, but the professor casts doubt on the claim made in the passage.
First of all, the author points that society which cannot see fossils in the museums will not be interested in them in the future and this fact will lead to decrease in public interest in fossils at all. This point is challenged by the lecturer. She says that public society has opportunity to buy these 'artifacts', for example, in school or library, thus people will have possibility to look at fossils and to study them.
Secondly, the author of the article contends that scientists lose access to some of the most essential fossils and can miss out some important discoveries. However, the lecturer rebuts this argument as she suggest that scientists are the first people who identify these fossils as they are experts, that is why it is no possible to say about missing out of important discoveries.
Finally, the author establishes that commercial collectors sometimes destroy fossils because they do not care about fossils, so scientists can lose essential scientific evidence associated with the fossils. The professor, on the other hand, posits that if scientists find the more evidence, the more evidence will we have and it will not be a big problem, if lose a little piece of fossils.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 37, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... First of all, the author points that society which cannot see fossils in the ...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... fossils and can miss out some important discoveries. However, the lecturer rebut...
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Line 5, column 208, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'she' must be used with a third-person verb: 'suggests'.
Suggestion: suggests
...he lecturer rebuts this argument as she suggest that scientists are the first people wh...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, thus, for example, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => 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: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1212.0 1373.03311258 88% => OK
No of words: 247.0 270.72406181 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.90688259109 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96437052324 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65526555766 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.542510121457 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 372.6 419.366225166 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => 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: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 54.9763136426 49.2860985944 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.666666667 110.228320801 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.4444444444 21.698381199 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.4444444444 7.06452816374 176% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.404586110317 0.272083759551 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.152246395838 0.0996497079465 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101037093605 0.0662205650399 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.217004363811 0.162205337803 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0917147408096 0.0443174109184 207% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 13.3589403974 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 53.8541721854 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 11.0289183223 114% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 49.0 63.6247240618 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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