The article and the lecture are both about dinosaurs, which is their characteristic may or may not be defined as endotherm is still a debate. The author believes that dinosaurs should be placed as endotherms. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article. She believes that dinosaurs, on the other hand, are not endotherms.
First of all, the author states that fossils of dinosaurs were found in the polar area, where the surrounding environment is fairly cold and not suitable for animals that could not generate their own body's temperature to survive. Therefore, dinosaurs should be endotherms, in which their bodies temperature can be regulated independently. The lecturer refutes this point. She is the opinion that the fossils evident are not enough to conclude dinosaurs as endotherms. She states the surrounding environment was warmer than today, and the dinosaurs could rely on external milieu temperature as many others reptiles did.
Secondly, the author argues that position of dinosaur's leg is irrelevant to a body structure of reptile, which usually attached to the side rather than underneath the body. Such anatomy viewpoint is pointing dinosaurs in the direction of endotherms. In contrast, the lecturer considers this point of view in a different angle. She thinks that the leg position is not an indication of a high-energy creature but simply as the way to support dinosaurs heavyweight.
Finally, the professor mentions about the presence of growth ring structure in dinosaur. As the article use Haversian ring as one of their support for endotherms, the growth ring structure, on the other hand, is the indication of rapid growth. This rapid growth phenomenon, which is seen in many reptiles, is an evident suggest dinosaurs belong to the reptile column.
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- INTEGRATED TASK: Summarize the points in the lecture stating how they cast doubts on the reading passage topic points. 3
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 210, 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.
...nosaurs should be placed as endotherms. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, in contrast, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.4613686534 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1511.0 1373.03311258 110% => OK
No of words: 288.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.24652777778 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88369048513 2.5805825403 112% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.496527777778 0.540411800872 92% => OK
syllable_count: 466.2 419.366225166 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.116997792494 855% => Less interrogative sentences wanted.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => 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: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.2337774678 49.2860985944 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.4375 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.125 7.06452816374 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.3997233025 0.272083759551 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.121220784622 0.0996497079465 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0693396431967 0.0662205650399 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.223982182043 0.162205337803 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0678724907909 0.0443174109184 153% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.3589403974 92% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.87 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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