The reading and the listening passages are both about endotherms, which are the animals that keep their body temperature not change. While the reading passage mentions three evidence that dinosaurs endotherms, the speaker provides three arguments that they were not.
First of all, the reading passage supports that only animals that can maintain a temperature can be active in such areas. However, the professor refutes this point. She states that at that time the region is much warmer than today. Moreover, she adds that dinosaurs could migrate to warmer areas or habitat. Therefore, they were not necessarily endotherms.
Secondly, the author avers that the leg position and movement indicate that dinosaurs were endotherms. The lecturer rebuts this idea by saying that dinosaurs leg’s position was to support the heavyweight. Also, she adds a point about growing and weight, so it is not accurate to say that just for running they are endotherms.
Finally, the writer contends that endotherms have a structure called Haversian canals. On the other hand, the professor explains that the growth of the bones suggest that they were not endotherms because the bones were not growing rapidly. They were affected by temperature. Also, she adds that the endotherms animals grow rapidly in hot or cold weather.
To conclude, the listening passage debunks all the points that the reading passage made.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, as to, first of all, 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 : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 14.0 30.3222958057 46% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1194.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 223.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.35426008969 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.86434787811 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55900231167 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.565022421525 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 359.1 419.366225166 86% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.4353823204 49.2860985944 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 79.6 110.228320801 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.8666666667 21.698381199 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.26666666667 7.06452816374 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => 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: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.384209992505 0.272083759551 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119595184168 0.0996497079465 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0725555938901 0.0662205650399 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.184753655059 0.162205337803 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0991373494456 0.0443174109184 224% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 13.3589403974 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.27 53.8541721854 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.8 11.0289183223 80% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.16 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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