The article and the lecture are both about theories of dinosaur extinction. The author of the artile provides three theories which explains the dinosaur extinction. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article. He thinks that there is no clear evidence about the theories mentioned in the article.
According to the reading, asteroid theory explains the extinction. The article mentions that the presene of iridium in earth surface is due to collision with meteorites which has large quantities of iridium. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that earth core is rich in iridium. Additionally, he points out that earth core magma contains iridium which is leaked due to volcanoic eruption.
Secondly, the author suggests other theory about exctinction of dinosaur which is kn own as ice age theory. The article notes that glacial peroid afected dinosaurs. He also states that dinosaurs does not have thermoregulatory systems to survive in extreme wheather conditions. The lecturer rebuts this argument. He suggests that there is no evidence of glacial and ice age periods at the time of dinosaurs. She elaborates on this by mentioning that there is evidence of tropical species and the sea levels are high which results in melting of ice caps.
Finally, the author posits that bird evolution theory is another reason for dinosaur extinction. He contends that dinosaurs may be evolved as modern birds. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that birds have different abilities when compared with dinosaurs. He puts forth the idea that dinosaurs have limited moving ablities. Consequently, there is no logical eplanation of evolution of modern birds from dinosaurs.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 166, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...which explains the dinosaur extinction. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, if, may, second, secondly, so, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 5.01324503311 279% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1443.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 272.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.30514705882 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06108636974 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73892617414 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.518382352941 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 447.3 419.366225166 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 21.2450331126 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.3517887019 49.2860985944 60% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 72.15 110.228320801 65% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.6 21.698381199 63% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.1 7.06452816374 58% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.27373068433 211% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.138472170986 0.272083759551 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0478116738531 0.0996497079465 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.065834910905 0.0662205650399 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0906000608937 0.162205337803 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0563890527044 0.0443174109184 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 13.3589403974 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.28 53.8541721854 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.93 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.498013245 69% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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