The reading states that there are several reasons that private collectors have been selling and buying fossils, and in recent years the number of this activity has increased and it is an unfortunate development for science. On the other hand, the lecturer finds all the reasons mentioned by the reading dubious and refutes them all by specific details.
First, the reading states that private collectors do not allow the public to view their collections. On the contrary, the professor mentioned the fact that most of the private collectors are private universities, and schools that buy fossils to show them, and research on them, also they allow to interested people watch their collections.
Furthermore, the author argues that scientists and the museums and universities they work for often cannot compete successfully for fossils against millionaire fossil buyers. Conversely, the lecturer brings up the idea that only scientists can examine the fossils, and all the fossils found everywhere, should be examined by them, so they can research them.
Finally, the reading passage holds the view that that fossil collectors often destroy valuable scientific evidence, and they do not know how to keep them. In contrast, the speaker dismisses this issue due to the fact that by this way more fossils can be fined, and discovered more fossils is much better for the scientific world, so a private system will be very useful for them.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, conversely, finally, first, furthermore, if, so, in contrast, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 18.0 30.3222958057 59% => More preposition wanted.
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: 1205.0 1373.03311258 88% => OK
No of words: 232.0 270.72406181 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19396551724 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.90276135726 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65424510789 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.543103448276 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 355.5 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 6.0 1.51434878587 396% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => 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: 29.0 21.2450331126 137% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 46.0066231645 49.2860985944 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 150.625 110.228320801 137% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.0 21.698381199 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.75 7.06452816374 180% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.180538371505 0.272083759551 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0835488170413 0.0996497079465 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0491281712684 0.0662205650399 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112734537736 0.162205337803 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0263591984956 0.0443174109184 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.5 13.3589403974 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 53.8541721854 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 45.0 63.6247240618 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.498013245 130% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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