TOEFL integrated writing: Endotherms
Both the reading and the lecture discuss whether dinosaurs are endotherms or not. The author thinks that dinosaurs are endotherms, the speaker, however, disagree with the author`s the point of view.
The first reason the author says that, in polar regions some dinosaur fossils have been found, which shows that just endotherms keep their body temperatures constantly, so the dinosaurs are endotherms. The speaker, on the other hand, says that the discovery of the dinosaurs fossils does not indicate that they are endotherms. She goes on to say that, the dinosaurs may migrate or hybernate when the climate is cold, so they can not be considered as endotherms.
The author says that the leg position and the movements of dinosaurs, which are under the body, show that they are endotherms. But, according to the speaker, having legs under their body does not mean that they would use their legs for running, actually legs help dinosaurs to grow up larger and larger.
The author concludes that the canals in the bones of dinosaurs, which the haversian canal is one of the structure that endothermy have, shows that dinosaurs are not reptiles but endotherms. The speaker, though, has a different point of view. She says that, although dinosaurs have this special types of cannals, they also have `growth rings` which are the indicators of reptiles. These growth rings tells us that dinosaurs grow too slowly in colder periods, and at normal pace in normal seasons. In contrast to this, endotherms` growth is more rapid.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 203, 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.
...antly, so the dinosaurs are endotherms. The speaker, on the other hand, says that t...
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Line 7, column 70, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... canals in the bones of dinosaurs, which the haversian canal is one of the struct...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, however, if, may, so, in contrast, in contrast to, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalization wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1298.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 252.0 270.72406181 93% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15079365079 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98428260373 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68277448019 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 145.348785872 93% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.535714285714 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 375.3 419.366225166 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.6443832494 49.2860985944 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.166666667 110.228320801 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0 7.06452816374 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => 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: 0.0370373835504 0.272083759551 14% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0214320410047 0.0996497079465 22% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0389632289067 0.0662205650399 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0281381018486 0.162205337803 17% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0197299808528 0.0443174109184 45% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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