The author and the lecturer discussed about the Easter Island and decline of the population. The writer has made three claims and provided reasons, inorder to support them. Whereas, the lecturer refutes the author's reasons and provides challenging reasons.
First, the author mentioned that the Moai statue was shifted to the resting place with the help of wooden logs and wooden tracks, due to which the plants were cut downed .Whereas, the lecturer asserts that the Moai statue was trasported with the help of rope and human lifting's in which no trees were harmed to prepare tracks.
Secondly, the author posits that the all the trees were cut downed and as a result of which the Easter Island faced paucity of resources like food from migratory birds, fishes from fishing industries,ect. However, the lecturer rebuts thise claim and asserts that lack of resource caused by the introduction of rats on the island and not by the construction of Moai state which involved trees to cut down. The rats had negative impact on Plam trees and as a result, created a scarcity of resources.
Moreover, the author contends that the population was least when the European explorer visited the island in eighteenth century, which was roughly around two thousands out of tweenty thousand. In contrast, the speaker opposes the author's claim by mentioning that the author overestimated the peak population to 20 thousand, whereas carbon foot prints reveals that settlement of eastern island occured in 1200AD, according to which when the European arrived population might be on the peak and not on the least.
In conclusion, the claims and reasons provided by the author has been challenged by the lecturer with supporting reasons.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: .
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Suggestion: Whereas
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, whereas, in conclusion, in contrast, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 8.0 22.412803532 36% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1449.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 282.0 270.72406181 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13829787234 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09790868904 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56346681362 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514184397163 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 414.9 419.366225166 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
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: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 88.7932992967 49.2860985944 180% => OK
Chars per sentence: 144.9 110.228320801 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.2 21.698381199 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.5 7.06452816374 149% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.199912993063 0.272083759551 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0769027507277 0.0996497079465 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0851540956277 0.0662205650399 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0939591560675 0.162205337803 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0623661735331 0.0443174109184 141% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.9 13.3589403974 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 53.8541721854 96% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.83 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.28 8.42419426049 110% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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