Sinosauropteryx fine lines
The article and the lecture are both about the question whether Sinosauropteryx dinosaur had feather. The author of the reading opposes this theory and provides three reasons of support. The lecturer refutes the statements made by the writer. She is of the opinion that evidence showing that the evidence of fine lines found around Sinosauropteryx are strong and the criticisms are unconvincing
First of all, the author suggests that the fine lines did not belong to the dinosaur when they were alive but were formed when the animal died. It is mentioned that the animal skins became fibers after its death and then conserved as lines. This argument is challenged by the lecturer. She says that if that theory is valid, fine lines should have been found in other animal fossils in the same site as well. In fact, the well-preserved fossils of other animals allow for conclusion that the fine line were not fibers but feathers of the dinosaur.
Second, the writer contends that even in the case the fine lines are a part of the Sinosauropteryx's living organism, they might be frills instead of feathers. The professor, however, rebuts this point by asserting that there is a chemical disparity between frills and feather. The feathers have a kind of protein named keratin, which the frills do not have. A study by archeologists has shown that the lines excavated did have keratine in it, which proves that they are certainly feathers.
Finally, it is stated in the passage that the lines represent structures located along the backbone and tail of the dinosaur. The author establishes feathers in that location cannot perform its usual function such as flying or temperature regulation. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that feathers could be used for other functions as well. She puts forth the idea of display function, illustrated by the peacock using its long colorful feathered tail to attract other for mating. He elaborates on by mentioning that it is found that the feathers represented by the lines were colorful, supporting the idea that the structure was of display function
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 44, Rule ID: WHETHER[5]
Message: Can you shorten this phrase to just 'whether', or rephrase the sentence to avoid "the question"?
Suggestion: whether
... article and the lecture are both about the question whether Sinosauropteryx dinosaur had feather. T...
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Line 1, column 94, Rule ID: HAD_VBP[1]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'feathered'.
Suggestion: feathered
...on whether Sinosauropteryx dinosaur had feather. The author of the reading opposes this...
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Line 1, column 94, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'feathered'.
Suggestion: feathered
...on whether Sinosauropteryx dinosaur had feather. The author of the reading opposes this...
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Line 1, column 188, 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.
... and provides three reasons of support. The lecturer refutes the statements made by...
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Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... fibers but feathers of the dinosaur. Second, the writer contends that even in...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, second, so, then, well, in fact, kind of, such as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.4613686534 191% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 12.0772626932 174% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1753.0 1373.03311258 128% => OK
No of words: 349.0 270.72406181 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0229226361 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32221490584 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66461163608 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 145.348785872 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.518624641834 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 540.9 419.366225166 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.5709277837 49.2860985944 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.117647059 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5294117647 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.82352941176 7.06452816374 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
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: 0.295235393303 0.272083759551 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0823972203274 0.0996497079465 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.109341016664 0.0662205650399 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182086637432 0.162205337803 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.074973086922 0.0443174109184 169% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 63.6247240618 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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