The reading and the lecture are both about the building in the settlement of Chaco Canyon, in New Mexico. The author provides three possible theories about the purpose of these houses. However, the lecturer says that all these theories are not convincing.
First, the article says that the building could have been used for housing. The speaker, on the other hand, rebuts this claim. He elaborates on this by explaining that the building form inside does not contain any evidence that is had been used as a residence place. For instance, it has only ten fireplaces, while it consists of 100 rooms. It should have many more of them if people had lived there.
Second, the text contends that the building was used as a storage place for the grain maze. Conversely, the professor rejects this supposition and he asserts that there no traces of maze have been found. Or even big container that supposedly used to store maze in them.
Third, the passage suggests that the massive building were used as ceremonial centers. In contrast, the lecturer refutes this assumption. He asserts that pottery is not a proof, simply because other material have been found like construction materials, stones and sands. It is possible that these potteries were just discarded there by some workers. These materials do not have any relation with ceremonies. Thus, it is unlikely that the place used for ceremonies.
- TPO-24 - Integrated Writing Task Animal fossils usually provide very little opportunity to study the actual animal tissues, because in fossils the animals' living tissues have been largely replaced by minerals. Thus, scientists were very excited recently 70
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- TPO-12 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is better to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize in one specific subject.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 76
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- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? To improve the quality of education, universities should spend more money on salaries for university professors. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 73
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, first, however, if, second, so, third, thus, while, for instance, in contrast, 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: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 19.0 30.3222958057 63% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1170.0 1373.03311258 85% => OK
No of words: 234.0 270.72406181 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91114542567 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49219689529 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 145.348785872 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.589743589744 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 361.8 419.366225166 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 21.2450331126 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.1980743633 49.2860985944 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 68.8235294118 110.228320801 62% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.7647058824 21.698381199 63% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.64705882353 7.06452816374 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.27373068433 281% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.295255229255 0.272083759551 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0874738007939 0.0996497079465 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0431307918219 0.0662205650399 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164836991594 0.162205337803 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.039974183576 0.0443174109184 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.0 13.3589403974 67% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.74 53.8541721854 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 11.0289183223 65% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.13 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.498013245 69% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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