The reading and the lecture both discuss about whether dinosaurs are endotherms, which are animals with stable body temperatures. While the article argues that dinosaurs are endotherms since they have several characteristics that belong to endortherms, the lecturer refutes this, stating such characteristics do not prove that dinosaurs possess endothermy.
First of all, the passage claims that dinosaur fossils have been found in Polar Regions, which have severely cold climates. This suggests that the dinosaurs can actually keep their body temperatures unchanged so that they survive in such areas. The lecturer opposes this idea by stating that when dinosaurs were still present, Polar Regions were actually warm enough for animals to live there for most parts of the year. In addition, when cold seasons came, dinosaurs might have migrated to somewhere else. Thus, the fact that dinosaur fossils were discovered in these regions does not suggest that dinosaurs are endotherms.
Secondly, the reading states that dinosaurs' legs are underneath the body, just as many endortherms. It argues that since endothermy is connected to efficient running, which required such a position, the legs' position of the dinosaurs show that they are endotherms. The lecturer rebuts this argument by saying that dinousaurs' legs are in that position not for the purpose of increasing running ability. She states that dinosaurs' legs are underneath their bodies so that these animals can grow into large size with the legs supporting their weight, which is an advantage to them.
Finally, the article argues dinosaurs have the Haversian canals, the bone structures that most endortherms have. It also notes that dinosaurs grow rapidly in terms of their bodies, which is another indicator that dinosaurs are endortherms. However, the lecturer posits that even though the rate of body growth in dinosaurs is rapid, this process is not constant. She explains that dinosaurs' bodies grow dramatically only for some periods, and they will stop developing or grow slowly in the cold seasons. Therefore, the point made in the passage was irrelevant.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, however, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, thus, while, in addition, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.4613686534 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 28.0 12.0772626932 232% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 41.0 22.412803532 183% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1804.0 1373.03311258 131% => OK
No of words: 332.0 270.72406181 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.43373493976 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.2685907696 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.663393289 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.524096385542 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 546.3 419.366225166 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.5046669249 49.2860985944 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.75 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.75 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.75 7.06452816374 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.497166948622 0.272083759551 183% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.167343235779 0.0996497079465 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0639374699662 0.0662205650399 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.303044120211 0.162205337803 187% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0450855526951 0.0443174109184 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.21 12.2367328918 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 63.6247240618 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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