The reading and the lecture are both about the Triassic period, and what kind of theories there are to prove the extinction of many species. The author of the reading believes that the main reasons were because of sea levels, massive climate cooling, and asteroids. The lecturer casts doubts made on the claims in the articles. She believes that none of these facts are true.
First of all, the author points out that the seafloor levels could have been the main reason of extinctions. It is mentioned that the seafloor level fell, and left the animals in the coasts, and shallow areas to die. This point is challenged by the lecturer. She says that the animals along the coast, and shallow regions are able to adapt quickly. Furthermore, she argues that the sea level readings found, were gradient for about a million years, thus telling us that the animals had a long time to adapt to the changes.
Secondly, the author contends that the climate cooling were another theory on the extinctions. The article notes that the volcanic activities during the Triassic period were great. The lecturer rebuts this argument. She suggests that the sulfuric acids would usually disappear in a short period. She elaborates on this by mentioning that the sulfuric acid would mix with moisture, creating rain.
Finally, the author states that asteroids were another major theory on the destruction of some species. The article establishes that the asteroid would have locked the sun and prevented the plants from growing. The lecturer on the other hand posits that if there was an asteroid strike, it would have created a crater. However, the only crater found close to this time period was at least 12 million years before any of this happened.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 267, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...massive climate cooling, and asteroids. The lecturer casts doubts made on the claim...
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Line 3, column 277, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...enged by the lecturer. She says that the animals along the coast, and shallow reg...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, second, secondly, so, thus, as to, at least, kind of, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => 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: 1451.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 293.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95221843003 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.34362415309 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 145.348785872 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546075085324 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 431.1 419.366225166 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.51434878587 330% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 33.7363140976 49.2860985944 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.6111111111 110.228320801 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2777777778 21.698381199 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.33333333333 7.06452816374 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.127542578671 0.272083759551 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0359029547798 0.0996497079465 36% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0484249881663 0.0662205650399 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0723222138555 0.162205337803 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0304770550156 0.0443174109184 69% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.0 13.3589403974 75% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.13 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => 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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