Both the reading passage and lecture discuss how the Great Houses were used by the people in Chaco Canyon. The former summarizes three possible theories about their function. However, the lecturer challenges each of these theories.
First, the passage suggests that the Great houses could have served a residential purpose. On the other hand, the professor challenges this idea and states that there weren’t enough fireplaces in the inside of the building to justify its purpose as residential. In fact, only enough fireplaces were found to support ten families, but there should have been enough to support 100 families.
Second, the reading claims that perhaps the Great Houses were used to store food, particularly maize. Nevertheless, the lecturer contradicts this theory and argues that there was lack of evidence inside the buildings. If they were really used for storing food, there should have been spilled maize on the ground or broken parts nearby.
Finally, the author of the text suggests that the buildings could have been used for ceremonial purposes due to a large pile of broken pots. In contrast, the professor counters that the pile also included a lot of other materials, such as construction materials. He further states that perhaps it was a trash pile used to throw away many things in the town.
- chaco canyon 3
- Endotherms are animals such as modern birds and mammals that keep their body temperatures constant For instance humans are endotherms and maintain an internal temperature of 37 C no matter whether the environment is warm or cold Because dinosaurs were rep 73
- Integrated Writing Task Chaco Canyon How the buildings were used Summarize the points made in the lecture being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the specific theories discussed on the reading passage 70
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, nevertheless, really, second, so, in contrast, in fact, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
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: 1109.0 1373.03311258 81% => OK
No of words: 216.0 270.72406181 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13425925926 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.83365862548 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50458684156 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.583333333333 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 331.2 419.366225166 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.8527636912 49.2860985944 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.4166666667 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.1666666667 7.06452816374 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.200861793104 0.272083759551 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0736403470546 0.0996497079465 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0950901851828 0.0662205650399 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131089727094 0.162205337803 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.110614420158 0.0443174109184 250% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 50.0 63.6247240618 79% => More difficult words wanted.
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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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