The reading and the lecture is about the usage of “great houses” of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, which are three to four story large, massive settlements that contains hundreds of rooms. The author of the reading believes that “great house” was utilized by the ancient society for daily life purposes. The lecture cast doubt on the three theories made in the article.
First, the author points out that the “great houses” were just used as residence. It is mentioned that these settlements have similarity to recent architectures of Southwest societies, such as the apartment building at Taos in New Mexico. This point is challenged by the lecturer. She says that inside of the “great houses”, there only discovered about ten fireplaces. Even though the settlements were capable to host nearly 100 families, there would be more than ten fireplaces needed.
Secondly the author contends that the buildings were utilized as storehouses for long-lasting food supplies such as grain maize. The articles notes that the “great houses” would be large enough to store a great amount of supply food. This point is challenged by the lecturer and she argues that the excavation of buildings showed no evidence of grain maize.
Finally, the author states that the “great houses” were used for special ceremonies. The article illustrates that the large number of broken pots near Pueblo Alto are evidence that people gathered in the building for ceremonies. The pots were used to prepare and serve festival meal which is also documented in other Native America cultures. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that the Pueblo Alto house contains also construction materials and tools, so that such mounds were just construction trash. Moreover, the pots were probably used by the construction workers by building the houses.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...ncient society for daily life purposes. The lecture cast doubt on the three theorie...
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Suggestion: note
...plies such as grain maize. The articles notes that the 'great houses' would...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ings showed no evidence of grain maize. Finally, the author states that the &apo...
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...ented in other Native America cultures. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits tha...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1586.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 295.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.37627118644 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14434120667 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84978516656 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.535593220339 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 482.4 419.366225166 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.7223003603 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.125 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4375 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.25 7.06452816374 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
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: 0.359133850631 0.272083759551 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.12234479488 0.0996497079465 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0576323164473 0.0662205650399 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.223669437169 0.162205337803 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0426475359522 0.0443174109184 96% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.2367328918 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => 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: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 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.