Summarise the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they case doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.
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 public suffers because fossils that would otherwise be donated to museums where everyone can see them are sold to private collectors who do not allow the public to view their collections. Making it harder for the public to see fossils can lead to a decline in public interest in fossils, which would be a pity.
More importantly, scientists are likely to lose access to some of the most important fossils and thereby miss out on potentially crucial discoveries about extinct life forms. Wealthy fossil buyers with a desire to own the rarest and most important fossils can spend virtually limitless amounts of money to acquire them. Scientists and the museums and universities they work for often cannot compete successfully for fossils against millionaire fossil buyers.
Moreover, commercial fossil collectors often destroy valuable scientific evidence associated with the fossils they unearth. Most commercial fossil collectors are untrained or uninterested in carrying out the careful field work and documentation that reveal the most about animal life in the past. For example, scientists have learned about the biology of nest-building dinosaurs called oviraptors by carefully observing the exact position of oviraptor fossils in the ground and the presence of other fossils in the immediate surroundings. Commercial fossil collectors typically pay no attention to how fossils lie in the ground or to the smaller fossils that may surround bigger ones
Recently, there has been a ton debate as to private fossils collector own the fossils and this may cause scientists problems. More specifically, in regard to the passages, the writer of the reading text puts forth the idea of disadvantage that these private collectors cause. In the listening passage, the lecturer is quick to point out there are some serious flaws in the writer's claims. In fact, the lecturer believes the writer exaggerates, and addresses, in detail, the trouble made in the reading text.
First and foremost, in the reading text, the writer states that fossils won't be available to exhibit in public, so many people have no chance to see them and this will decrease public interest in fossils. Some professionals, however, stand in firm opposition to this claim. In the listening, the lecturer believes that this can make an opportunity for public schools and libraries to buy fossils. So despite the opinion of the writer, She believes this will increase the access of the public to the fossils. They can see them in many places, not just museums.
Second, the writer claims that commercial fossil collector, decrease the access of scientist to the fossils. The writer believes, scientists and the museums and universities often compete with millionaire fossil buyers. On the other hand, the lecturer believes before these fossils come to the market, scientists examine them and valued them before selling them to the private collectors.
Finally, the author wraps his/her argument by positing that commercial fossil collectors destroy valuable scientific evidence because most of them are untrained. So the writer claims the commercial fossil collector pay no attention to take care of them and have no knowledge of fossils. Not surprisingly, the lecturer takes issue with this claim by contending if these organizations did not exist many fossils were undiscovered because the institutes and universities which work in these areas have not enough money to work. So the disadvantages of these privates collectors are less.
To sum up, obviously, both writer and the lecturer hold conflicting views about the private fossil collectors and the advantages of them. It's clear that they will have trouble finding common ground on this issue.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 53, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'fossils'' or 'fossil's'?
Suggestion: fossils'; fossil's
...ere has been a ton debate as to private fossils collector own the fossils and this may ...
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Line 2, column 112, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... wont be available to exhibit in public, so many people have no chance to see the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, may, second, so, as to, in fact, in regard to, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 30.3222958057 158% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1900.0 1373.03311258 138% => OK
No of words: 363.0 270.72406181 134% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23415977961 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3649236973 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72659924344 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 145.348785872 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512396694215 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 577.8 419.366225166 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 2.5761589404 311% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.815239684 49.2860985944 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.555555556 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1666666667 21.698381199 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.77777777778 7.06452816374 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.184754639603 0.272083759551 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0621308571022 0.0996497079465 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0334750089751 0.0662205650399 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111276375788 0.162205337803 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0443335941392 0.0443174109184 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 63.6247240618 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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