The author expresses three functions of the Chaco Canyon, in New Mexico in the American Southwest, including residential and food storage purposes, and a place for holding ceremonial events. The professor, on the other hand refutes all these three functions by providing the following reasons.
First of all, on of the purposes of the Chaco Canyon was mentioned in the article to be residential because of its huge number of rooms. According to the lecture, although from outside, the Chaco Canyon looks like Native American apartments, from inside, there are not as much as fireplaces suitable for housing hundreds of residents. There are only 10 fireplaces which can serve 10 families and could not be suitable for hundreds of people. Therefore, how the large number of people can cook in the Chaco Canyon without enough fireplaces.
Secondly, author claims that the Chaco Canyon might be used for grain maize storage. This hypothesis is also refused by the professor, mentioning that there is not many traces of grain maize, preserved in large quantity in the Chaco Canyon building. Moreover, storage containers are not found in the Chaco Canyon structure. Hence, this function of the Chaco Canyon is also rebutted by the professor.
Finally, professor states that the Chaco Canyon cannot be used for ceremonial events, the function which is mentioned in the text. The reason, professor raised is that in addition to broken pots which were found in the deposits of the mound, there are other materials too. These include construction materials, such as stones and sand and the broken pots might be from the construction workers who threw away their pots when they finished their food. Therefore, deposits of broken pots cannot be the firm evidence of holding a huge and crowded ceremonies in the Chaco Canyon, the theory which is stated in the text.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, hence, look, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, in addition, such as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1561.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 305.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11803278689 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57012376087 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 145.348785872 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495081967213 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 477.0 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.116997792494 855% => Less interrogative sentences wanted.
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.0467627797 49.2860985944 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.5 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7857142857 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.71428571429 7.06452816374 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.304685982221 0.272083759551 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.112817667963 0.0996497079465 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0433052908112 0.0662205650399 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.18373518414 0.162205337803 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0243065861582 0.0443174109184 55% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.3589403974 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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