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

The lecture and the reading are both about the merits and demerits of fossil trade. The author of the reading believes that it is disastrous for both scientists and the general public. The professor casts doubt on claims made by the author. She thinks the advantages of it can outweigh the disadvantages.
First of all, the author argues that the public may suffer, as long as the remains are destined to go to collectors, who do not want to release their collections. The article mentions that as it is difficult to see fossils, the interest of people in them can decrease. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. She claims that there is greater exposure on people because more and more remains are available for purchase. As a result, even poor schools can afford to buy and make public them.
Secondly, the writer suggests that scientists may lose access to experimentations on fossils. In the passage, it is said that very important discoveries will miss out. The speaker, however, rebuts this by mentioning that all private collectors hire scientists. She elaborates on this by bringing up the point that there is a need for them to indicate whether is discovery valuable or not.
Finally, the author posits that private fossil traders are vitiating fundamental evidence related to the remains, which can be carried out by scientists. According to the reading, the vast majority of commercials are untrained and uninterested in conducting research on them. On the contrary, the teacher's position is defending the assumption that it is better to be found many fossils, rather than leave undiscovered. She points out that the collectors have been unearthing a lot of findings, which are still not determined by collecting operation of universities and museums.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 171, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
... disastrous for both scientists and the general public. The professor casts doubt on claims ma...
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Line 1, column 187, 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.
...both scientists and the general public. The professor casts doubt on claims made by...
^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, as a result, first of all, on the contrary

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1493.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 293.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09556313993 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88983991547 2.5805825403 112% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 145.348785872 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.569965870307 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 455.4 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.7141565411 49.2860985944 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.8235294118 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2352941176 21.698381199 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.47058823529 7.06452816374 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => 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: 0.0987166551295 0.272083759551 36% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0270981920934 0.0996497079465 27% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0316755301971 0.0662205650399 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0537721764742 0.162205337803 33% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0316096917324 0.0443174109184 71% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 13.3589403974 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.0 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.11 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 63.6247240618 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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