Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the specific points made in the reading passage.
The reading and lecture are both about the mysterious decline of population in Easter island. The author of the reading proposes some ideas that depict the reason behind this. However, the lecturer disagrees with the explanation and attacks each of the claims made in the article.
Firstly, the author mentions that the boat which carries the native people also carried the rats which usually feed on palm tress. As a result, deforestation occur and this made the people complicate to thrive as there are no more food. The lecturer believes there are flaws in the writer’s position. He contends that although the rat population was burgeoning and desertification also happened nevertheless there was no short of food. In addition, most of the inhabitants were fisher and more than half of the food sources came from sea.
Secondly, according to the passage the fundamental cause of population plummet is war among inhabitants. To be more precise, there is evidence of blade and weapons found during exacavation. The speaker on other hand points out that there was material which is sharp but only few were pointed. These materials were probably came from construction work rather from warfare.
Finally, the reading passage notes that population diminish is percipitated from the diseases of outside nation. Furthermore, in 19th century numerous people visited the island consequently the contact with these people cause indigenous people suffer from detrimental diseses. The professor rebuts this argument. He puts forth the idea that eventhough it is true that contact with foreigner results people suffer severely, it was before 19th. There has been proof of increment in population since this century.
As we can see, the author and professor holds very conflicting views on the diminishing of populants. The speaker effectively challenges the writer’s argument.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 324, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'come'.
Suggestion: come
... pointed. These materials were probably came from construction work rather from warf...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, in addition, as a result, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 5.01324503311 319% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1584.0 1373.03311258 115% => OK
No of words: 295.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.36949152542 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14434120667 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76117457489 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 145.348785872 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.586440677966 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 487.8 419.366225166 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.2931500979 49.2860985944 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 83.3684210526 110.228320801 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.5263157895 21.698381199 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.78947368421 7.06452816374 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 4.45695364238 224% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.104359783535 0.272083759551 38% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0308960837074 0.0996497079465 31% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0369379202837 0.0662205650399 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0554584778493 0.162205337803 34% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0482074103606 0.0443174109184 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 47.79 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.57 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 63.6247240618 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.5 Out of 30
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