The article discusses the theory of usage of the great houses of Chaco Canyon. And provides three competing theories of supports. However, the professor explains these theories are not convincing and refutes each of the author's theories.
First, the reading claims that Chaco structures were purely residential and hundreds of people were living each house. The professor of lecture rebuts this by saying that these were not residential. Outside of these structures may look like native American but insides were totally different. He added that there were few fireplaces only for about ten people. So, it contradicts with the theory of hundreds of people.
Second, the article avers that the structures were used to store food supplies for long periods of time as a long-lasting supply of food. Anyhow, the professor contends that it might possible to need store food for a long time but the structures were not used to store foods. Houses were not fully cover to protect the food for a long time.
Final, the reading posits that the Chaco houses were used as ceremonial centers and people gathered to Pueblo Alto for special ceremonies. The lecture opposes that by stating that this theory was not also good enough. The excavations of the Pueblo Alto revealed that there were many construction materials like sands, rocks etc which might be the evidence of storing room for construction things.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, may, second, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => 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: 1176.0 1373.03311258 86% => OK
No of words: 230.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11304347826 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89432290496 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48923580563 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 123.0 145.348785872 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.534782608696 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 360.9 419.366225166 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.7126180833 49.2860985944 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.0 110.228320801 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.4285714286 21.698381199 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.71428571429 7.06452816374 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.13418156376 0.272083759551 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0503939334287 0.0996497079465 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0294217270693 0.0662205650399 44% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0799839445058 0.162205337803 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0219578085703 0.0443174109184 50% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.06 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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