Summarize the points made in the lecture
The reading and the lecture are both about Altruism behaviour among living beings. Whereas the author of the reading states that people sacrificing things, in other words who perform altruistic acts never profit from the sacrifice, the lecturer suggest that people do get benefitted from the same. The lecturer cast doubts on the main points of the reading by stating following two examples.
First of all, according to reading, in the first example where a human makes donations of kidney or other organs, little reward is gained by the one performing the donation. However, the lecturer disputes this point. She argues that, by making donations, one receives respect and appreciation from the society. Furthermore, she mentions that such act increases sense of self- worth. According to her, these non material rewards are more valuable.
In the second example of Meerkat, the reading states that the sentinels who are standing guards and look for predators risk their life whereas other meerkats hunt and eat food. Thus sentinels perform altruistic act. Nevertheless, the lecturer refutes this argument . She thinks that sentinels are more likely to escape after giving an alarm. Since, they first get to know about predators they are likely to be safe. On the other hand, those who scatter for food are less protected.
In conclusion, although the reading and the lecture are both about altruism, the two main examples of humans and Meerkats, made in the reading are effectively challenged by the lecturer
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
...who perform altruistic acts never profit from the sacrifice, the lecturer suggest...
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...ereas other meerkats hunt and eat food. Thus sentinels perform altruistic act. Never...
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...less, the lecturer refutes this argument . She thinks that sentinels are more like...
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...likely to escape after giving an alarm. Since, they first get to know about predators...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, however, if, look, nevertheless, second, so, thus, whereas, in conclusion, first of all, in other words, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => 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: 1283.0 1373.03311258 93% => OK
No of words: 244.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25819672131 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.95227774224 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51640514964 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 145.348785872 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.590163934426 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 380.7 419.366225166 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 2.5761589404 311% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 55.6906535147 49.2860985944 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.5333333333 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2666666667 21.698381199 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.46666666667 7.06452816374 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.174191933935 0.272083759551 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0639663389648 0.0996497079465 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0930542075538 0.0662205650399 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115241640056 0.162205337803 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0677040286023 0.0443174109184 153% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 13.3589403974 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.93 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => 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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