The reading and the lecture are both about the discovery of 20 million old fossils that resemble bee hives. The author of the reading believes that those structures could have not been made by bees .The lecturer casts doubts on the claims made in the article. She thinks that there is much evidence that suggests it might have been constructed by bees.
First of all, the author points out that there are no fossil remains of bees that date back 200 million years ago. It is mentioned that the earliest preserved body of a bee is only 100 million years old as a result, the structures discovered in Arizona can’t have been built by bees .This point is challenged by the lecturer. She says that the lack of preserved bees that date back to 200 million years ago doesn’t prove they didn’t exists .Furthermore, she argues that in order for a bee bodies to be preserved it requires the right type of tree risen which was rare at the time.
Secondly, the author contends that a reason to question the existence of bees at that time is the lack of flowering plants. The article notes that bees feed almost exclusively on flowering plants however the first evidence of which appears only 125 million years ago. The lecturer rebuts this argument. She suggests that before flowering plants bees could have fed on other things such as ferns, pine trees and later flowering plants.
Finally, the author states the found chambers are missing some details that modern bee hives have .It is established that modern bee nests are close by caps that have a spiral pattern on the contrast with the discovered fossilized chambers .On the other hand, the lecturer posits that they have the same chemical with modern hives that is used to waterproof the nest
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, however, second, secondly, so, such as, as a result, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 21.0 12.0772626932 174% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1460.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 305.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.7868852459 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.35291079229 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 145.348785872 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514754098361 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 432.9 419.366225166 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 87.5139658276 49.2860985944 178% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.727272727 110.228320801 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.7272727273 21.698381199 128% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.7272727273 7.06452816374 152% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 4.19205298013 262% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.382195466437 0.272083759551 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.140423543386 0.0996497079465 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0885820650045 0.0662205650399 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.210421914353 0.162205337803 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0940503617921 0.0443174109184 212% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.99 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.8 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => 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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