The article discusses how the buldings that were discovered in Chaco canyon in New Mexico were used for and provides three reasons of support. However, the professor states that unfortunately none of these theories are convincing and he refutes each of the author’s reasons.
First, the reading avers that the Chaco structures were clearly residential, because it may look like the early versions of the southwest societies houses. The professor refutes this point by stating that this idea could true if we examine the structures from outside. However, if we see the houses from inside, there are cast doubts about this idea. He explains that if this houses inhabited by hundreds of people, we should find a remains of fire places. Excavations have reveled there are few places for fireplaces, so it ruled out the idea of these structures could be residential.
Second, the article claims that the Chaco Canyon structures were used to store food supplies, such as grain maize. The professor, on the other hand, states that this theory has not supported by any evidence. Unfortunately, excavations for the area have uncovered any traces for maize remains or the containers that used for store maize. This means, if the structures were truly for storage grain maize, we should find remains of maize spills or remains of the containers.
Third, the reading posits that houses were used as ceremonial center. this idea supports by the broken pots that have been discovered in one house, called Pueblo Alto. The professor opposes this point by stating that this idea is also unsupported by evidence. Though the author has mentioned the discovery of broken pots, other materials have been found in the location too. These materials are not related to special ceremonies, however, these materials are construction materials. The professor concludes that this location could be a trash place for a construction site. Also, the broken pots could be regular trash that comes from meals of construction workers.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 432, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a (remains)' or simply 'remains'?
Suggestion: a (remains); remains
...d by hundreds of people, we should find a remains of fire places. Excavations have revele...
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Line 7, column 71, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: This
... houses were used as ceremonial center. this idea supports by the broken pots that h...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, look, may, second, so, third, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 22.412803532 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1690.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 326.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18404907975 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64976704343 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506134969325 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 522.0 419.366225166 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 22.5511763674 49.2860985944 46% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 93.8888888889 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1111111111 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.55555555556 7.06452816374 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.348595542657 0.272083759551 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110516501841 0.0996497079465 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0663912013486 0.0662205650399 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.212776358261 0.162205337803 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0372822818619 0.0443174109184 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 12.47 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 63.6247240618 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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