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 the reading and lecture discuss about the commercialization of fossil of rare animals such as dinosaurs and other gigantic vertebrates. The former
argues that due to such selling and buying activities both scientists and public faces huge demerits and he provides three possible reasons to supports, but latter challenges each of these points.
First of all, the author of the passage asserts that public will unable to view such collections of fossils after involvement of private collectors. However, the professor contends that it does not hold true, and he further says that the author of passage just exaggerating. Public will able to purchase more if fossil available in market. For instance, public library, school will purchase fossil which increases more exposure to general people.
Secondly, according to the passage, the expert opined that scientists miss out to do investigating and research if it goes in hand of private company. In contrast, the professor in his lecture objects this idea. As value of rare fossil will be identifies on the basis of scientific conclusion.
Finally, the passage claims that commercial fossil collectors damage the fossil due to unskilled, and lack of enthusiasm. Nevertheless, like two ideas before the professor in his lecture proclaims that this recommendation is not feasible because to take out the undiscovered fossil the commercial fossil collectors is needed. Moreover, the university and scientist does not know exact location of fossil site until they research.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 213, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...essor in his lecture objects this idea. As value of rare fossil will be identifies...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, thus, for instance, in contrast, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 10.4613686534 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1294.0 1373.03311258 94% => OK
No of words: 238.0 270.72406181 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.43697478992 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.92775363542 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90929903971 2.5805825403 113% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59243697479 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 395.1 419.366225166 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.8745269428 49.2860985944 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.833333333 110.228320801 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8333333333 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.1666666667 7.06452816374 158% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => 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: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.163131045481 0.272083759551 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0606472595021 0.0996497079465 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.04077174236 0.0662205650399 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0854516937199 0.162205337803 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0407842157244 0.0443174109184 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.8541721854 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.27 12.2367328918 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.42 8.42419426049 112% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => 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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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.