The reading passage and the lecture are both about the "great houses" of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico in American Southwest. The author of the reading feels that there are three possible explanation about these large buildings. The lecturer challenges each of the points made by the author. He is of he opinion that the explanations provided about the Chaco great house are not convincing.
First of all, the author believes that these great houses are residential buildings providing houses for hunderds of people. It is mentioned in the passage that these buildings are similar to the famous 'apartment buildings' of Taos, new Mexico, which were also residential. However, the professor suggests that these buildings indeed looks like residential apartments for outside but not from inside. Moreover, he says that there are no or very few fire places for for cooking.
Secondly, the author contends that these buildings were used for storing food. The passage mentions that maize was one of the main crops of Chaco people, so they used the great houses for storing the food for longer supply. The specific theory is challenged by the author. He claims that the evidences of great houses being used for food storage are not persuasive. He says that archaeological excavations have not found any proof of maize or maize contained there. Therefore, these buildings were not used for storage.
Finally, the author in the last theory says that these buildings were used for ceremonial place. In the passage, it is said that many broken pots have been found in a building called Peublo Alto. The lecturer rebuts the theory by stating that more excavations found a lot of construction material nearby the houses. He elaborates on this by bringing up the point that these pots might belong to the construction workers who used it for cooking.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: of the opinion
...of the points made by the author. He is of he opinion that the explanations provided about th...
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Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
...nside. Moreover, he says that there are no or very few fire places for for cooking...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: for
...at there are no or very few fire places for for cooking. Secondly, the author conten...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, look, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1547.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 305.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07213114754 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60495878395 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.504918032787 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 474.3 419.366225166 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => 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: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 28.9147320305 49.2860985944 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 85.9444444444 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.9444444444 21.698381199 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.61111111111 7.06452816374 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => 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: 9.0 4.27373068433 211% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.195456297102 0.272083759551 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0678689936492 0.0996497079465 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0687059180249 0.0662205650399 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124565184621 0.162205337803 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0402822362416 0.0443174109184 91% => OK
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: 11.83 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => 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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