In the lecture, the professor makes a series of points that challenges all the theories presented in the reading passage. She states all the three theories may sound plausible but non of them could be a good reason for the mass extinction at the end of the Triassic period.
First of all, the passage claims decrease level of sea as a reason of mass extinction. However the professor refutes this theory by stating that it could not be a possibility. She states the coastal and shallow water decline can only make mass extinction if it happens sudden. As this decline happened during several million years ,all the living organism adapted to this gradual change and had not any impact on them.
Moreover, the professor challenges the theory of massive climate cooling due to volcanic activity. She states that it is true that sulfur dioxide reduces the temperature during short period of time but this volcanic excess sulfur dioxide was cleared out of atmosphere by combination with water from rain falls. Therefore , not many volcanic sulfur stay in the atmosphere.
Lastly, the speaker claims that scientist did not find any asteroid crater at that time and the one that was found was related to 12 million years before .So it could not be a good theory to explain the extinction.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, lastly, may, moreover, so, therefore, first of all, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1068.0 1373.03311258 78% => OK
No of words: 219.0 270.72406181 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.87671232877 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.84690116678 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48881796764 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.579908675799 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 325.8 419.366225166 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.23620309051 49% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.7931722227 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.8 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.7 7.06452816374 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => 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: 0.148597365982 0.272083759551 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0649034538951 0.0996497079465 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105191708959 0.0662205650399 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0898536401352 0.162205337803 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0901126097722 0.0443174109184 203% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.02 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 63.6247240618 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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