The article and the lecture are both about theories of dinosaur extinction. Whereas, the author of the reading states three theories which explains the dinosaur extinction. The lecturer casts doubt on the main points made in the reading by providing three reasons.
According to the reading, asteroid theory explains the extinction. The article mentions that the presence of iridium in earth surface is due to collision with meteorites which has large quantities of iridium. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that earth core is rich in iridium. Additionally, he points out that earth core magma contains iridium which is leaked due to volcanic eruption.
Secondly, the author suggests other theory about extinction of dinosaur which is known as ice age theory. The article notes that glacial period affected dinosaurs. He also states that dinosaurs does not have thermoregulatory systems to survive in extreme weather conditions. The lecturer rebuts this argument. He suggests that there is no evidence of glacial and ice age periods at the time of dinosaurs. She elaborates on this by mentioning that there is evidence of tropical species and the sea levels are high which results in melting of ice caps.
Finally, the author posits that bird evolution theory is another reason for dinosaur extinction. He contends that dinosaurs may be evolved as modern birds. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that birds have different abilities when compared with dinosaurs. He puts forth the idea that dinosaurs have limited moving abilities. Consequently, there is no logical explanation of evolution of modern birds from dinosaurs.
- Extinction of dinosaurs 3
- earthquakes 71
- The following appeared in a letter from a firm providing investment advice for a client Most homes in the northeastern United States where winters are typically cold have traditionally used oil as their major fuel for heating Last heating season that regi 78
- Teachers salaries should be based on their students academic performance 33
- benefits of going green 70
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 77, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Whereas” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... about theories of dinosaur extinction. Whereas, the author of the reading states three...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, if, may, second, secondly, so, whereas, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 5.01324503311 279% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1406.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 262.0 270.72406181 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.36641221374 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02323427807 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74283849066 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.530534351145 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 432.0 419.366225166 103% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => 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: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 21.2450331126 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.5015845389 49.2860985944 60% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 74.0 110.228320801 67% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.7894736842 21.698381199 64% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.78947368421 7.06452816374 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.201924479099 0.272083759551 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0592984058049 0.0996497079465 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0843484578062 0.0662205650399 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112299627094 0.162205337803 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0656193266661 0.0443174109184 148% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.3589403974 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.28 53.8541721854 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.27 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.498013245 69% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 77, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Whereas” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... about theories of dinosaur extinction. Whereas, the author of the reading states three...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, if, may, second, secondly, so, whereas, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 5.01324503311 279% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1406.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 262.0 270.72406181 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.36641221374 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02323427807 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74283849066 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.530534351145 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 432.0 419.366225166 103% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => 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: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 21.2450331126 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.5015845389 49.2860985944 60% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 74.0 110.228320801 67% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.7894736842 21.698381199 64% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.78947368421 7.06452816374 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.201924479099 0.272083759551 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0592984058049 0.0996497079465 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0843484578062 0.0662205650399 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112299627094 0.162205337803 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0656193266661 0.0443174109184 148% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.3589403974 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.28 53.8541721854 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.27 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.498013245 69% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.