Easter Island
The reading passage and the lecture are both about the ruin of Easter Island civilization. From their contexts, it can be stated that the prevailing discussion is about the possible reasons to explain the civilization collapse. While the author of the text claims that there are three reliable causes for the ruin, the lecturer completely refutes the arguments in the article. Hence, arguing that these explanations are faulty for the following reasons.
Firstly, it is said by the lecturer that there were rats in the island that consumed tree’s seeds but there were still enough food to eat and survive. Furthermore, sixty percent of inhabitants diet came from sea. Moreover, the Island’s soil was rocky, consequently, protected against erosion.
This directly contradicts the reading passage that denotes that an infestation of rats and consequently deforestation and soil erosion contributed to the starvation and the end of the civilization.
Secondly, the lecturer safely assumes that the blades encountered by archeologists were not weapons or war instruments. After careful analyses, they observed that the blades were not pointed or sharp, therefore, they could be used to construct statues and homes. This idea strongly contrasts with the article that mentions that conflicts or internal warfare using these possible weapons had caused the decline in population.
Finally, the lecturer believes that Island population suffered from diseases due to the contact with immigrants, however, the beginning of this decline have started long before this contact, during 17 century. The text, on the other hand, states that the contact with the immigrants in the 19 century was the probable cause for the decline.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... are faulty for the following reasons. Firstly, it is said by the lecturer that...
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Line 8, column 202, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'century' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'centuries'.
Suggestion: centuries
...ted long before this contact, during 17 century. The text, on the other hand, states th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, hence, however, moreover, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, while, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1464.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 267.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.48314606742 5.08290768461 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04229324003 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7972538901 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.606741573034 0.540411800872 112% => OK
syllable_count: 441.0 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.3828422987 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.615384615 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5384615385 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.3076923077 7.06452816374 160% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.147059544032 0.272083759551 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0519764343252 0.0996497079465 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0990427273668 0.0662205650399 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.068035638864 0.162205337803 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0629799121583 0.0443174109184 142% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.3589403974 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 53.8541721854 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.5 12.2367328918 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.83 8.42419426049 117% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 63.6247240618 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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