The reading and the lecture is about the settlements of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico and their respective reasoning as to how those structures were used. While the author of the analytical piece suggest that those structures could have been purely residential, inventories, or even as ceremonial structures, the professor casts doubts on each of these claims made by the author. The professor states that the author's reasoning is based on several unconscionable assumptions and proper justification is required before jumping to any optimistic conclusion.
Firstly, the author claims that Chaco structures were purely residential as these structures are similar to those large and well-known apartments in New Mexico where many people have been living for centuries. This point is challenged by the professor. However, these buildings seem similar to those apartments from outside, their inner view depicts that there weren't sufficient fire places for people to cook food. In addition, the professor states that there exists fire places for approximately 10 families whereas the number of rooms could have accommodated people of more than 100 families.
Secondly, the author argues that these structures were used as inventories to store food supplies as the structures were large enough to accommodate abundant maize supplies. However, the professor rebuts this point. He states that the excavation didn't encountered any trace of grain maize or any of their containers. So stating these structures as inventories is clearly injudicious.
Finally, the author mentions about the recent excavations where large number of broken pots were revealed which indirectly infers that these massive building of Chaco Canyon were used as ceremonial centers. The professor on the other hand asserts that those excavations also revealed some construction materials like sand and stones. So, it may be the possibility that construction workers used such pots to cook food and discarded those after their meal.
In conclusion, the professor effectively refutes each of the claims and theories presented in the passage.
- TOEFL T P O 4 Integrated Writing Task 48
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: weren't
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...is point. He states that the excavation didnt encountered any trace of grain maize or...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'finally', 'first', 'firstly', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'well', 'whereas', 'while', 'as to', 'in addition', 'in conclusion', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.275071633238 0.261695866417 105% => OK
Verbs: 0.151862464183 0.158904122519 96% => OK
Adjectives: 0.080229226361 0.0723426182421 111% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0458452722063 0.0435111971325 105% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0171919770774 0.0277247811725 62% => OK
Prepositions: 0.143266475645 0.128828473217 111% => OK
Participles: 0.0458452722063 0.0370669169778 124% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.86575969059 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0229226361032 0.0208969081088 110% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.12893982808 0.128158765124 101% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00859598853868 0.0158828679856 54% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0114613180516 0.0114777025283 100% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2108.0 1645.83664459 128% => OK
No of words: 322.0 271.125827815 119% => OK
Chars per words: 6.54658385093 6.08160592843 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23607819155 4.04852973271 105% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.406832298137 0.374372842146 109% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.295031055901 0.287516216867 103% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.239130434783 0.187439937562 128% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.189440993789 0.113142543107 167% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86575969059 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.534161490683 0.539623497131 99% => OK
Word variations: 56.0153655967 53.8517498576 104% => OK
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0529801325 115% => OK
Sentence length: 21.4666666667 21.7502111507 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.070949995 49.3711431718 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.533333333 132.220823453 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4666666667 21.7502111507 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.2 0.878197800319 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.39072847682 59% => OK
Readability: 50.9697722567 50.5018328374 101% => OK
Elegance: 2.16 1.90840788429 113% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.627391681678 0.549887131256 114% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0717238537142 0.142949733639 50% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0614624183651 0.0787303798458 78% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.573178922607 0.631733273073 91% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.181348295431 0.139662658121 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.265622253114 0.266732575781 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.124343771874 0.103435571967 120% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.319025935985 0.414875509568 77% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0608702770149 0.0530846634433 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.433419682243 0.40443939384 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0477028943746 0.0528353158467 90% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.26048565121 70% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 3.49668874172 172% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 3.62251655629 166% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 3.1766004415 94% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 10.2958057395 146% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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