Essay topics: TPO-47 - Integrated Writing Task
The audio and the reading passage are devoted to the issue whether pterosaurs which were winged reptiles - were capable of powered flight. Although the passage gives us some evidence which buttresses the idea that those animals couldn't fly, the lecturer casts doubts on the evidence and provides us with new one. Both resources will be discussed in details below.
Firstly, the author claims that because today's reptiles are cold blooded, the extinct pterosaurs ought to be cold blooded as well. In this case, they were not able to generate enough energy to power the discussed type of flight. However, the speaker avers that a recent discovery of ancient fossils has revealed that the animal was covered with a dense, hair-like coverage which reminds fur of contemporary warm-blooded animals which employ this kind of coverage for maintaining internal temperature when the external one declines. Thus, there is a possibility that pterosaurs might have faster metabolism and therefore were capable of powered flight.
Secondly, the text suggests that the ancient animal was large and heavy. The lecturer disagrees with it due to the fact that bones of the creature had special features which significantly reduced its weight. For instance, pterosaur's bones were hollow inside and thus it did not weigh much.
Finally, the writer believes that the winged reptiles were not able to launch themselves because their legs did not have enough muscle power; at the same time, although the speaker agrees with the fact that the legs of the pterosaurs were not strong enough to launch the animal; the lecturer states that a pterosaur walked on four limps and thus it should use all four limps to launch itself. For instance, some modern animals, which are capable of powered flight, do walk on four limps and use all four limes for being airborne. Thus there is a reason to assume that the ancient reptiles could take off from the ground if they used all four limps.
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Sentence: Finally, the writer believes that the winged reptiles were not able to launch themselves because their legs did not have enough muscle power; at the same time, although the speaker agrees with the fact that the legs of the pterosaurs were not strong enough to launch the animal; the lecturer states that a pterosaur walked on four limps and thus it should use all four limps to launch itself.
Error: pterosaur Suggestion: ?
flaws:
No. of Words: 326 250
Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 26 in 30
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 13 12
No. of Words: 326 250
No. of Characters: 1601 1200
No. of Different Words: 174 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.249 4.2
Average Word Length: 4.911 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.333 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 121 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 83 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 49 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 22 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.077 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 15.385 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.615 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.345 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.567 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.066 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 229, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: couldn't
... buttresses the idea that those animals couldnt fly, the lecturer casts doubts on the e...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 531, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
... use all four limes for being airborne. Thus there is a reason to assume that the an...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, well, for instance, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1643.0 1373.03311258 120% => OK
No of words: 325.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05538461538 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24591054749 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.37639008884 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 145.348785872 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541538461538 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 504.9 419.366225166 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 91.4948829688 49.2860985944 186% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.384615385 110.228320801 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0 21.698381199 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.38461538462 7.06452816374 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.438070473466 0.272083759551 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.145576692643 0.0996497079465 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10233945328 0.0662205650399 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.239196096052 0.162205337803 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0756794784816 0.0443174109184 171% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24 Out of 30
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