meerkats
The reading passage and the lecture are both about altruism, which is a behavior in which an animal sacrifices its interest for the others. The author of the reading feels that the meerkat, which is a mammal that lives in the grassland area of Africa, is an example of altruism. However, the lecturer challenges the claims made by the author and he thinks that those explanations are faulty.
To begin with, the author asserts that in the group of meerkats, individual acts as a sentinel by standing guard and looking out for predators while others hunt for food or eat food. Additionally, the passage mentions that the sentinel meerkat goes without food. Nevertheless, the professor refutes this point by saying that this sentinel meerkat is the one who eats first as per the recent study.
Secondly, the author claims that the sentinel meerkats place themself in grave danger as it has to fly away alone, but the professor attacks this reason by saying that these sentinels are the ones who most likely escape first while others are eating or hunting.
Thirdly, the passage says that altruists are the ones who are selfless and always benefit others. Again, the lecturer disagrees with this and explains that even these people get benefits from society. They are more appreciated and for few people, non-material benefits matter a lot.
Therefore, both the author and the lecturer have different views.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, look, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, while, as to, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 20.0 30.3222958057 66% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 5.01324503311 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1200.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 235.0 270.72406181 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10638297872 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91531732006 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46564075583 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.570212765957 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 355.5 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 53.3466753284 49.2860985944 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.090909091 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3636363636 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.0 7.06452816374 156% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => 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: 0.162141483346 0.272083759551 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0690696369739 0.0996497079465 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0958020011063 0.0662205650399 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0804328547648 0.162205337803 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.070704932389 0.0443174109184 160% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.3589403974 100% => OK
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: 12.36 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.51 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => 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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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.