When archaeologists make an interesting discovery, they often make overly ambitious claims about the value of their finds. The case of the Archaeopteryx is a case in point. The discovery of the first Archaeopteryx fossils made quite an impression on the field of dinosaur studies when researchers proposed that the Archaeopteryx was, in fact, not a dinosaur at all, but was instead, a bird. However, a careful consideration of the physical evidence suggests that such claims may have been made prematurely in that Archaeopteryx fossils have a large number of characteristics that are classic features of dinosaurs, rather than birds. First, when you consider the overall body structure of an Archaeopteryx fossil, you can't fail to notice that all specimens possess a long, tail composed of bony vertebrae. The similarity to the tails of many species of dinosaurs, or to the tails of modern day reptiles for that matter, is obvious. The presence of this type of tail is decidedly not birdlike. Next, careful examination of the mouths of Archaeopteryx reveals a strong kinship to dinosaurs. Specifically, Archaeopteryx had teeth; modern-day birds lack this rather obvious physical trait. The teeth discovered with Archaeopteryx fossils are similar to those of smaller, carnivorous dinosaurs of the same era. A third point to emphasize is perhaps the most convincing of all. According to the analysis of many researchers, Archaeopteryx lacked a key characteristic that most people would consider practically synonymous with the nature of birds: flight. While a casual glance at an Archaeopteryx fossil might leave one with the impression of a generally birdlike shape, a careful analysis of the structure of the wings indicates that Archaeopteryx could not have flown.
The reading text and lecture are both dealing with whether a Archeopteryx is dinosaurs or birds. While the author feels that Archeopteryx is birds and lecturer is states that Archeopteryx is dinosaur and providing the 3 factual reason to the author.
Firstly, according to the reading text, Archeopteryx fossils found by the archeologist was revealed that, Archeopteryx was having the bony tail in their end. article also mention that, modern day birds is not having a tail. In contrast to article, the lecture argues that, weight of mature Archeopteryx is around the 1 to 2 pound, which shown that just like a mature pegion. Additionally, he notice that, Archeopteryx is having a compact body like birds.
Secondly, the article suggests that, head and mouth of Archeopteryx is like a dinosaur. and also having small teeth like a dinosaur is have. On the other hand, the professors believe that Archeopteryx is having a long beak, which is generally, present in the birds. Moreover, he said that beak is evidence of divergent evolution pathway. This evidence proved that, Archeopteryx is not a dinosaur.
Lastly, the reading passage think that, major feature of birds is able to do flight. But according to the archeologist Archeopteryx is not able to fly. On the opposite side, the tutor point out that, Archeopteryx is having a feather. but is it not like a feather, which is present in the modern birds. On top of that, he confends that, this feathers are having a leathery feel. In addition to that, this feathers are rudimantry not like fully developed. It proves that, Archeopteryx is not a dinosaur according to the professors arguments.
To sum up, the author and lecture both having the different view points on the Archeopteryx.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 60, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...d lecture are both dealing with whether a Archeopteryx is dinosaurs or birds. Whi...
^
Line 3, column 159, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Article
... was having the bony tail in their end. article also mention that, modern day birds is ...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 325, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'pound' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'pounds'.
Suggestion: pounds
...ature Archeopteryx is around the 1 to 2 pound, which shown that just like a mature pe...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 393, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'notices'.
Suggestion: notices
... like a mature pegion. Additionally, he notice that, Archeopteryx is having a compact ...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 89, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: And
...uth of Archeopteryx is like a dinosaur. and also having small teeth like a dinosaur...
^^^
Line 5, column 136, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'had'.
Suggestion: had
...o having small teeth like a dinosaur is have. On the other hand, the professors beli...
^^^^
Line 7, column 235, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: But
...that, Archeopteryx is having a feather. but is it not like a feather, which is pres...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, lastly, moreover, second, secondly, so, while, in addition, in contrast, in contrast to, to sum up, on the other hand, on top of that
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 10.4613686534 229% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 12.0772626932 166% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1461.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 290.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03793103448 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8892868665 2.5805825403 112% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.462068965517 0.540411800872 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 440.1 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
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: 31.1263175694 49.2860985944 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 76.8947368421 110.228320801 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.2631578947 21.698381199 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.63157894737 7.06452816374 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => 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: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0121608113611 0.272083759551 4% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.00475038227618 0.0996497079465 5% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0110911428309 0.0662205650399 17% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0102853171383 0.162205337803 6% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0102901453559 0.0443174109184 23% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.9 13.3589403974 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 53.8541721854 120% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.0289183223 73% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.36 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.38 8.42419426049 88% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 60, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...d lecture are both dealing with whether a Archeopteryx is dinosaurs or birds. Whi...
^
Line 3, column 159, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Article
... was having the bony tail in their end. article also mention that, modern day birds is ...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 325, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'pound' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'pounds'.
Suggestion: pounds
...ature Archeopteryx is around the 1 to 2 pound, which shown that just like a mature pe...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 393, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'notices'.
Suggestion: notices
... like a mature pegion. Additionally, he notice that, Archeopteryx is having a compact ...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 89, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: And
...uth of Archeopteryx is like a dinosaur. and also having small teeth like a dinosaur...
^^^
Line 5, column 136, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'had'.
Suggestion: had
...o having small teeth like a dinosaur is have. On the other hand, the professors beli...
^^^^
Line 7, column 235, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: But
...that, Archeopteryx is having a feather. but is it not like a feather, which is pres...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, lastly, moreover, second, secondly, so, while, in addition, in contrast, in contrast to, to sum up, on the other hand, on top of that
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 10.4613686534 229% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 12.0772626932 166% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1461.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 290.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03793103448 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8892868665 2.5805825403 112% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.462068965517 0.540411800872 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 440.1 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
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: 31.1263175694 49.2860985944 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 76.8947368421 110.228320801 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.2631578947 21.698381199 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.63157894737 7.06452816374 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => 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: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0121608113611 0.272083759551 4% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.00475038227618 0.0996497079465 5% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0110911428309 0.0662205650399 17% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0102853171383 0.162205337803 6% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0102901453559 0.0443174109184 23% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.9 13.3589403974 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 53.8541721854 120% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.0289183223 73% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.36 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.38 8.42419426049 88% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 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.