New Zealand, located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, is an island country that geographically comprises two main landmasses, North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) and South Island (Te Waipounamu), and several smaller islands. There is evidence that the first inhabitants of New Zealand moved there around 1300 C.E.
The reading and the lecture are about the first group of inhabitants of New Zealand. Whereas the author of the reading states that there is evidence that indigenous people, the Māori, were the first settlers, the lecturer explains that although this is true, the evidence was re-examined and new conclusions were expalined. The lecturer casts doubt on the main points made in the reading by providing three reasons.
First of all, according to the passage, the Māori, an indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand is the evidence that they were the very first people who is an inhabitant of the country. In addition, the passage mentions that the Polynesian settlers developed their own culture and language. On the contrary, the lecturer refutes this point by mention that most New Zealand people are originated from Europe and the Māori are the minority. Furthermore, the lecturer explains that it was impossible to determine that there were no people living in New Zealand before the Māori.
Secondly, the reading mentions that because off primitive agriculture of human origin, trees were replaced by grass, according studies in pollen. Nevertheless, the lecturer disputes this point by mention that if trees were replaced by grass, this does not prove that humans set the fire for primitive agriculture. Moreover, the lecturer mentions that poor rainfall causes fires and this fires can clear the area.
Finally, the article states that human occupation was proved using the radiocarbon dating method. In addition, the passage mentions that this method can estimate how old something is and when originally exists. On the other hand, the lecturer mentions that there is evidence of items older, for example, rat bones, which means that they were brought to the island quite before the Maori. Moreover, this proves that other settlers were living there before the Maori.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, if, moreover, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, whereas, for example, in addition, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.4613686534 191% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 12.0772626932 166% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1607.0 1373.03311258 117% => OK
No of words: 300.0 270.72406181 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35666666667 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68090158964 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.483333333333 0.540411800872 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 490.5 419.366225166 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 16.0 8.23620309051 194% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.841273353 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.785714286 110.228320801 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4285714286 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.5714285714 7.06452816374 164% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.0931878264368 0.272083759551 34% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0360143114127 0.0996497079465 36% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0431623895699 0.0662205650399 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0599612226544 0.162205337803 37% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0410882497013 0.0443174109184 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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