Private collectors have been selling and buying fossils, the petrified remains of ancient organisms, ever since the eighteenth century. In recent years, however, the sale of fossils, particularly of dinosaurs and other large vertebrates, has grown into a big business. Rare and important fossils are now being sold to private ownership for millions of dollars. This is an unfortunate development for both scientists and the general public.
The public suffers because fossils that would otherwise be donated to museums where everyone can see them are sold to private collectors who do not allow the public to view their collections. Making it harder for the public to see fossils can lead to a decline in public interest in fossils, which would be a pity.
More importantly, scientists are likely to lose access to some of the most important fossils and thereby miss out on potentially crucial discoveries about extinct life forms. Wealthy fossil buyers with a desire to own the rarest and most important fossils can spend virtually limitless amounts of money to acquire them. Scientists and the museums and universities they work for often cannot compete successfully for fossils against millionaire fossil buyers.
Moreover, commercial fossil collectors often destroy valuable scientific evidence associated with the fossils they unearth. Most commercial fossil collectors are untrained or uninterested in carrying out the careful field work and documentation that reveal the most about animal life in the past. For example, scientists have learned about the biology of nest-building dinosaurs called oviraptors by carefully observing the exact position of oviraptor fossils in the ground and the presence of other fossils in the immediate surroundings. Commercial fossil collectors typically pay no attention to how fossils lie in the ground or to the smaller fossils that may surround bigger ones.
Both passage and lecture focus upon the debate on rare and important fossils being sold to private ownership. The author put forward certain claims which are disregarded by the speaker. The lecturer states few counterpoints to advocate her opinion.
First, according to author, by donating fossils to private owners we are depriving public from seeing those rare fossils. In turn, leading to decline in public interest in fossils. On the other hand, speaker states that by allowing fossils to be sold to private collectors, great exposure will be given to public. As lot of fossils will be available, public schools, libraries can buy it and display in public.
Second, author claims that private ownership of fossils will refrain access to scientists which in turn lead to missing out on potential crucial discoveries about extinct life forms. On the contrary, the lecturer profess that value of fossils would not be decreased. Also, scientist would not miss out on any information because before passing fossil to private collector, it has to be tested by scientific expert.
Third, the written text claims that much of the data would remain undiscovered, as commercial fossil collectors pay less attention to details and surroundings, where fossil is available. Conversely, the Orater rebuts the statement saying that in collecting more fossils it is fine, if some information remains undiscovered.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, first, if, second, so, third, as to, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1189.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 222.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.35585585586 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.8600083453 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76299491452 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 145.348785872 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.621621621622 0.540411800872 115% => OK
syllable_count: 356.4 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.2259188968 49.2860985944 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.0833333333 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.83333333333 7.06452816374 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.171765830714 0.272083759551 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0643430674995 0.0996497079465 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0406993604769 0.0662205650399 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104261120533 0.162205337803 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0326274506279 0.0443174109184 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.22 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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