The article talks about Altruism, which is a behavior of self-sacrifice for other's benefit. The passage has explained this behavior with the help of three examples. However, the professor refutes this idea and claims that in altruism both the individuals get benefited. She refutes each of author's reasoning.
First, the passage explains that when a human donates his body organ, or food to any of his relative, or any stranger, he doesn't get benefited in the act, at all. However, the lecturer discards this statement by saying when any human does this act, he gets appreciation from society or his relatives. As a result, his self-worth enhances. She argues that this kind of non-material award is also valuable.
Second, the author of passage posits the act of altruism, by giving an example of the meerkat, which is a mammal dwells in burrows in Africa. The sentinel meerkat stands as a guard of the colony without having food and looks for predators, whereas other meerkats hunt for food and enjoy the food. The professor dismisses this idea by saying that sentinel meerkat is the first who eats before starting the duty of guard.
Third, the article gives the statement that when any predator attacks on the colony, the sentinel meerkat gives the signal to group members to look for shelter, and all the team member gather together or scatters away, the guard meerkat runs away alone. Thus, he puts his life in danger to save others. The professor denies the statement. She says that when any predator attacks, the sentinel meerkat is the first one, who runs away first after giving a signal to other group members. By doing this the sentinel meerkat may put other animals in danger, as the predator may start looking for other group members of meerkat group by hearing this signal.
In Conclusion, the lecturer effectively casts doubt on all the claims presented in the reading.
- Altruism 3
- workweek change 3
- Some young adults want independence from their parents as soon as possible. Other young adults prefer to live with their families for a longer time. Which of these situations do you think is better? 80
- Modern transportation and shipping has made the world a better place to live. 80
- TOEFL integrated writing: Altruism. 3
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 123, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ny of his relative, or any stranger, he doesnt get benefited in the act, at all. Howev...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, look, may, second, so, third, thus, well, whereas, in conclusion, kind of, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1578.0 1373.03311258 115% => OK
No of words: 320.0 270.72406181 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93125 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22948505376 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46061952311 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 145.348785872 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5125 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 469.8 419.366225166 112% => 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: 14.0 8.23620309051 170% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 57.063189645 49.2860985944 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.8235294118 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8235294118 21.698381199 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.58823529412 7.06452816374 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0318728809571 0.272083759551 12% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0139884094251 0.0996497079465 14% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0303184300561 0.0662205650399 46% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0232783279118 0.162205337803 14% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0329833432655 0.0443174109184 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 13.3589403974 84% => 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: 11.31 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => 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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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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