Although the author provides some important hypotheses to support the idea that Edmontosaurus migrated every winter in order to survive, the professor finds them dubious and brings up some counter reasons to refute them all.
Firstly, the author claims that the lack of food resources such as plants led them to move from North Slope to South in cold winter. However, the professors gainsays this idea and states that Edmontosaurus had proper condition during summers and they accessed to plentiful amount of plants and vegetation. Thus, during cold and dark winters, they could feed on dead plants remained from summers.
Secondly, the author argues that moving in herd is a good opportunity for having better migration coordination and according to their dug-out skeleton, they moved in herd which means that they migrated toward south in groups. In contrast, the professor asserts that moving in herd might have some other meaning for animals such as keeping themselves safe from the danger of predators. For instance, some elks move in herd to protect themselves from being prey.
Thirdly, the author mentions the fact that Edmontosaurus were able to run so as fast enough as to reach warmer place during harsh climate. On the other hand, the speaker states that however they run fast, the younger Edmontosaurus could not reach themselves to other members of herd and they made their migration slow. Moreover, they could not let them alone and others had to stay.
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- TPO-27 - Integrated Writing Task The little ice age was a period of unusually cold temperature in many parts of the world that lasted from about the year 1350 until 1900CE. There were unusually harsh winters, and glaciers grew larger in many areas. Scient 53
- TPO 54. The Salton Sea in California is actually a salty inland lake. The level of salt in the lake's water—what scientists call its salinity—has been increasing steadily for years because the lake's water is evaporating faster than it is being repla 81
- TPO-44 - Integrated Writing Task In 1957 a European silver coin dating to the eleventh century was discovered at a Native American archaeological site in the state of Maine in the United States. Many people believed the coin had been originally brought to 90
- TPO 35- In 1912 a bookseller named Wilfrid M. Voynich acquired a beautifully illustrated handwritten book (manuscript) written on vellum (vellum is a material that was used for writing before the introduction of paper). The “Voynich manuscript,” as it 85
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, as to, for instance, in contrast, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 10.4613686534 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1238.0 1373.03311258 90% => OK
No of words: 241.0 270.72406181 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13692946058 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94007293032 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47937724303 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 137.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.56846473029 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 356.4 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.4706342904 49.2860985944 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.8 110.228320801 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1 21.698381199 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 14.3 7.06452816374 202% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => 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: 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: 0.245826134169 0.272083759551 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0971258257536 0.0996497079465 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0483864966185 0.0662205650399 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138192397898 0.162205337803 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0462648601274 0.0443174109184 104% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.3589403974 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.83 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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