The reading and the lecture are both about the pros and cons of trading fossils. The author of the reading feels that private collectors may negatively affect the scientific community and the public. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. She believes that the advantages of selling and buying fossils outweigh the disadvantages.
To begin with, the author argues that trading fossils and bring sold to private ownership would not allow the public to access and see these fossils. The lecturer challenges this specific argument. She claims fossils are available in a wide range of prices, and many of them are affordable. Additionally, she says that museums, universities, and schools can buy these fossils and be available for all people. Secondly, the writer suggests that selling fossils to private collectors would prevent scientists from accessing pivotal fossils. The lecturer, however, refutes this by mentioning that the problem is not realistic because all fossils should be scientifically identified before selling them. She elaborates on this by bringing up the point that scientists should perform genetic tests first before any selling and buying process. Finally, the author posits that commercial fossil collectors destroy the evidence and fieldwork. Moreover, the article states that the fossils collectors are not careful in the fieldwork. In contrast, the lecturer's position is that commercial fossil collectors increase the number of explored fossils. She notes that commercial collectors revealed many important fossils
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 201, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...he scientific community and the public. The lecturer challenges the claims made by ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1321.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 236.0 270.72406181 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.59745762712 5.08290768461 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91947592106 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75029378703 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.533898305085 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 392.4 419.366225166 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.1613985323 49.2860985944 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.0666666667 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.7333333333 21.698381199 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.13333333333 7.06452816374 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 2.0 4.09492273731 49% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
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: 0.20073374965 0.272083759551 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0754263512556 0.0996497079465 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.047629013489 0.0662205650399 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150459111496 0.162205337803 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0486462583962 0.0443174109184 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.3589403974 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.79 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.9 12.2367328918 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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