There are some surprising beliefs about elephants that are mentioned in the reading which are clearly confirmed to be wrong as the lecturer tells us. The three different behaviors that are pointed out in the reading are: first, knowing that they will die soon when they are old, second is to benefit an artisitic ability to paint things they observe in their environment, and the last is the fear they have for encountering mice.
As we hear from the lecture, the reason of existence of such places called "elephant graveyards" is not what that is mentioned in the reading. They elephants will not leave the herd to go somewhere to die alone but they will leave to find some softer vegetations that be more chewable as their teeth are old and not as strong as the younger members in the herd. So they have to go near the lakes and rivers to find some softer food to chew and subsequently they will pass away in those locations.
The lecturer believes that the painting ability to be a trick by humans. Humans can make some reacting patterns by touching the ears of elephants while they are keeping a brush by their trunks. So they are not aware of they are painting and they just modify the movement of the brush in response to the tactile actions made by a person on their ears.
The last point which is about the fear of mice is described by the lecturer to be due to the lack of knowledge of what are those creatures. It is proven right by mentioning the elephants in the zoos which are familiar with mice and thus are not afraid to face them.
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- consequences of reading less literature. 61
- 69.The rules that the whole societies today expect to young people to follow and obey are too strict 80
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, second, so, thus, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 10.4613686534 229% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => 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: 1282.0 1373.03311258 93% => OK
No of words: 284.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.51408450704 5.08290768461 89% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10515524023 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46437622303 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.503521126761 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 397.8 419.366225166 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.23620309051 49% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 53.9429328087 49.2860985944 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.2 110.228320801 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.4 21.698381199 131% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.9 7.06452816374 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.229902938301 0.272083759551 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.090660997763 0.0996497079465 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0447984674099 0.0662205650399 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139435293225 0.162205337803 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0338286635395 0.0443174109184 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.3589403974 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.98 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.8 11.0289183223 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.17 12.2367328918 75% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.86 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 10.7273730684 177% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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