Both the reading and the listening discuss the commercial selling and purchasing of fossils by private collectors. The author believes that there are three negative consequences of selling fossils to commercial markets. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. She is of the opinion that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.
To begin with, the author suggests that selling the fossils to private collectors, who will not display their collections to the people, deprive the public from their rights to watch them. In the article, it is mentioned that, the public interest in fossils will dramatically reduced. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. She states that selling the fossils to private collectors would increase the public exposure to the fossils. This is because of increasing the availability of fossils and even schools an universities can buy it and display it to the public. As a result, the public exposure has not been diminished as claimed.
Secondly, the writer argues that scientists will miss out a lot of precious discoveries due to selling the fossils to private collectors. The lecturer, however, rebuts this claim by asserting that this is not realistic at all. In fact; for any fossils to be identified as valuable discovery, it should pass through the hands of experts first to perform detailed examinations and acknowledge it. Therefore, Scientists will not miss any discoveries since they are the experts that will do the necessary investigations.
Finally, the author posits that private collectors are not trained and experienced enough to handle the fossils and they might damage it or lose important evidence. The lecturer, in contrast, casts doubt on this claim by pointing out that the private collectors have more capacity the universities and governmental sectors to make discoveries. Although, they might lose some important data, It is still better than completely undiscover these fossil.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 277, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'reduce'
Suggestion: reduce
...c interest in fossils will dramatically reduced. This specific argument is challenged b...
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Line 3, column 524, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'an university' or simply 'universities'?
Suggestion: an university; universities
...vailability of fossils and even schools an universities can buy it and display it to the public...
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Line 5, column 342, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... pass through the hands of experts first to perform detailed examinations and ack...
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Line 7, column 32, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ons. Finally, the author posits that private collectors are not trained and e...
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Line 7, column 439, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this fossil' or 'these fossils'?
Suggestion: this fossil; these fossils
...still better than completely undiscover these fossil.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, in contrast, in fact, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1663.0 1373.03311258 121% => OK
No of words: 309.0 270.72406181 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38187702265 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92828939343 2.5805825403 113% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 145.348785872 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.53074433657 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 503.1 419.366225166 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.1854612034 49.2860985944 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.8235294118 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1764705882 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.17647058824 7.06452816374 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => 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: 0.200887420574 0.272083759551 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0641839941371 0.0996497079465 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0489858401506 0.0662205650399 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119472084068 0.162205337803 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0254302132553 0.0443174109184 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.63 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 63.6247240618 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.