The reading and the lecture are both about whether dinosaurs were endotherms or not. The author of the reading passage feels that there are some evidences supporting that dinosaurs were endotherms. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author of the reading passage. She is of the opinion that these evidences are not sufficient to prove that they were endotherms.
To begin with, the author argues that dinosaur fossils were found in polar regions. The article mentions that only endotherms can endure such conditions in cold climates. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. She claims that if they lived in the polar regions, polar region was much warmer than it is today. Additionally, she says that even animals that are not endotherms could live in such conditions in warm seasons, with hibernating and migrating in cold seasons.
Secondly, the writer suggests that endothermy allows sustained physical activity, such as running, while legs of animals are positioned underneath their body. In the article, it is said that the legs of modern endotherms are underneath their body, proving that dinosaurs were endotherms. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning that physical activities such as running only requires high energy in animal body. She elaborates on this by bringing up the point that the leg position of the dinosaurs was connected with their size which allowed them to grow in large size for better performance in life.
Finally, the author posits that there is also connection between endothermy and bone structure, which include in endotherms Haversian canals. Moreover, it is stated in the article that these canals house nerves and blood vessels that allow the living animal to grow quickly, and rapid body growth is a characteristic of endotherm. In contrast, the position of the lecturer is that although dinosaurs had dense Haversian canals, they do not prove that these are characteristic of endotherms because of the growing things. She notes that these structures allowed them a periodic growth; rapid growth, slow growth, and no growth prove that this is not a characteristic of endotherms in dinosaurs.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 200, 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.
...porting that dinosaurs were endotherms. The lecturer challenges the claims made by ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, while, in contrast, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 10.4613686534 220% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 23.0 12.0772626932 190% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 22.412803532 201% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 42.0 30.3222958057 139% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1823.0 1373.03311258 133% => OK
No of words: 347.0 270.72406181 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25360230548 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31600926901 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7317939108 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.504322766571 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 560.7 419.366225166 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.7224080811 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.235294118 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4117647059 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.29411764706 7.06452816374 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.187751889097 0.272083759551 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0620320183039 0.0996497079465 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0498676831439 0.0662205650399 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107238785121 0.162205337803 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0262561332865 0.0443174109184 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.17 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.77 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 63.6247240618 143% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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