Essay topics: TPO-43 - Integrated Writing Task
Agnostids were a group of marine animals that became extinct about 450 million years ago. Agnostid fossils can be found in rocks in many areas around the world. From the fossil remains, we know that agnostids were primitive arthropods-relatives of modern-day insects. However, the fossil information does not allow paleontologists to determine with certainty what agnostids ate or how they behaved. There are several different theories about how agnostids may have lived.
Both the lecture and the reading discuss the possible ways that agnostid lived in the ancient times. The professor contradicts the reading by providing three refutations.
In the first place, the professor states that it is true that agnostids have been found they were swimmers. However, it does not mean that they were swimming predators. To be more specific, the swimming predators known today usually have large eyes with strong vision, so that they could chase after their prey. However, the agnostids we know had poor vision and even could be blind. Furthermore, we do not find any other sense organs of agnostids from the fossils. As a result, the first theory is not convincing.
Secondly, the professor contradicts the argument of the passage by contending that agnostids were fond across over a large region, which is not common in seafloor dwellers. To illustrate, seafloor dwellers usually stayed in and occupied a localized and small area because they moved slowly. Nevertheless, the agnostids were found in a large area, meaning that they could move very fast. Obviously, it is unlikely that agnostids were seafloor dwellers.
Thirdly, the speaker disagree with the last theory by arguing that the size of population implies that the agnostids were not parasites. She further explains that the size of parasites is not large because individuals in the group have limited sources for living. However, the population of the agnostids was very large according to the fossils we found. Again, the professor refutes the theory provided by the reading.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, however, if, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, well, as a result, it is true, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1319.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 253.0 270.72406181 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21343873518 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98822939669 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60713212218 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 137.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.541501976285 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 394.2 419.366225166 94% => 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
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.7562494214 49.2860985944 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.4375 110.228320801 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8125 21.698381199 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.375 7.06452816374 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.408235295619 0.272083759551 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.132360153135 0.0996497079465 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0756169469336 0.0662205650399 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.229875706431 0.162205337803 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.072272536154 0.0443174109184 163% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.64 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
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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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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