several beliefs about surprising elephant behaviors.
The reading and the lecture are both about several behaviors of elephants. The professor is skeptical about the idea of the reading that people have several beliefs about the elephants. The professor argues that these beliefs are based on misunderstandings of elephants.
Firstly, the reading suggests that old elephants know when they are going to death. However, the professor says that it's not because elephants are aware of their death. The ture reason is that old elephants' teeth are bad and they could not chew hard food. They have to leave the herds and look for soft vegetations. Moreover, soft vegetations are usually near water, so old elephants die there and form a elephant graveyard. Obviously, the professor disproves its counterpart in the reading.
Furthermore, the professor is opposite to the reading's idea that elephants have artistic ability. The professor states that people train elephants to draw pictures. People teach elephants to paint in a certain way and elephants remember some patterns. In addition, people control elephants to draw different matters by toughing their ears. Elephants don't know the pictures are flowers or other things. In this way, the professor opposes the second opinion of the reading.
Finally, the reading claims that elephants are afraid of mice. On the contrary, the professor states that elephants have a fear of unfamiliar animals. It normal that animals are afraid of unfamiliar ones. For example, elephants in a zoo are not afraid of mice. If elephants are familiar with mice, they will not mind mice any more. Thus, the professor controdicts the last claim of the reading.
In conclusion, the professor clearly identidies the weaknesses in the reading and convincingly shows that the central argument in the reading is incorrect.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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.
...ve several beliefs about the elephants. The professor argues that these beliefs are...
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Line 5, column 404, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...er, so old elephants die there and form a elephant graveyard. Obviously, the prof...
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Line 9, column 47, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'readings'' or 'reading's'?
Suggestion: readings'; reading's
...rmore, the professor is opposite to the readings idea that elephants have artistic abili...
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Line 9, column 351, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...tters by toughing their ears. Elephants dont know the pictures are flowers or other ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, look, moreover, second, so, thus, for example, in addition, in conclusion, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1523.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 287.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.30662020906 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74320714602 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.494773519164 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 458.1 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.23620309051 170% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 13.0662251656 168% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 21.2450331126 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 22.6246775238 49.2860985944 46% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 69.2272727273 110.228320801 63% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.0454545455 21.698381199 60% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.40909090909 7.06452816374 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.244977393898 0.272083759551 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0761524420825 0.0996497079465 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0685841331826 0.0662205650399 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128588245111 0.162205337803 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0885277379434 0.0443174109184 200% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.1 13.3589403974 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.28 53.8541721854 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.63 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.58 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.498013245 69% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 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.