The article states three theories about the functions of massive stone buildings, or great houses of Chaco Canyon, namely that the great houses served a residential purpose, that they were used to store food supplies and that they were used to celebrate ceremonies. However, the professor explains that none of the arguments about what the Chaco great houses were used for is convincing and refutes each of the author’s theories.
First, the reading claims that the Chaco houses may have used for residential purposes as they are similar to residential buildings built in past by other societies in the American Southwest. But the professor says that it is unlikely that the Chaco houses were residential, as they contain very few fireplaces, very fewer than the families living in the houses would need for cooking.
Second, the article posits that because of their larger capacity, the Chaco houses may have been used to store their grain maize. On the other hand, the professor claims that the function of the Chaco house was not to store grain maize as very few traces of maize or maize containers have been found during excavations of the Chaco houses.
Third, the reading says that the Chaco houses may have served as ceremonial centers hosted feasts, evidence by the large quantity of broken pottery in a mass located near the “Pueblo Alto “house. The professor refutes this point and says that the mount near the “ Pueblo Alto “ house also contains construction materials and tools, which suggests that such mounds were just construction trash heaps and had nothing to do to do with ceremonies. The pots found in the mounds were probably used by construction workers building the houses.
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Essay evaluation report
about the functions of massive stone buildings, or great houses of Chaco Canyon, namely that the great houses served a residential purpose, that they were used to store food supplies and that they were used to celebrate ceremonies.
Description: why three 'that' are used here?
flaws:
'says' is duplicated all the time. Read sample essays from ETS:
http://www.testbig.com/users/toeflwritingmaster
and see how they deal with those verbs like: claims, says, posits...
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 24 in 30
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 9 12
No. of Words: 282 250
No. of Characters: 1383 1200
No. of Different Words: 135 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.098 4.2
Average Word Length: 4.904 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.331 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 91 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 61 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 43 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 26 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 31.333 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.393 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.778 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.485 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.732 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.186 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
The article states three theories about ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 204, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[5]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'used to storing'.
Suggestion: used to storing
...d a residential purpose, that they were used to store food supplies and that they were used t...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 251, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[5]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'used to celebrating'.
Suggestion: used to celebrating
... store food supplies and that they were used to celebrate ceremonies. However, the professor expl...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...es each of the author's theories. First, the reading claims t...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... in the houses would need for cooking. Second, the article posits t...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...uring excavations of the Chaco houses. Third, the reading says th...
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Line 7, column 450, Rule ID: PHRASE_REPETITION[1]
Message: This phrase is duplicated. You should probably leave only 'to do'.
Suggestion: to do
...onstruction trash heaps and had nothing to do to do with ceremonies. The pots found in the ...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, may, second, so, third, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1448.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 284.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0985915493 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10515524023 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51706140084 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.540411800872 93% => OK
syllable_count: 434.7 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => OK
Sentence length: 31.0 21.2450331126 146% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.1950283806 49.2860985944 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 160.888888889 110.228320801 146% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.5555555556 21.698381199 145% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.55555555556 7.06452816374 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.437341696803 0.272083759551 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.19138753075 0.0996497079465 192% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0552480866578 0.0662205650399 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.268818863521 0.162205337803 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0445848969491 0.0443174109184 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.4 13.3589403974 138% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.47 53.8541721854 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.0289183223 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.89 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 10.7273730684 177% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 10.498013245 137% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.