TPO-05 - Integrated Writing Task As early as the twelfth century A.D., the settlements of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico in the American Southwest were notable for their "great houses," massive stone buildings that contain hundreds of rooms and often stand th

The article and the lecture are both discussing the settlements of Chaco Canyon from different perspectives. The article provides three main theories to explain how the buildings were used in the past. However, the professor believes that the theories that mentioned in the article are not convincing, and he refutes each one of them.

To begin with, the first theory posits that some people used to live in these buildings due to the fact that they are similar to the other buildings from the same period. The professor, however, refutes this point. He states that even though the Chaco houses are looking like the native American's buildings from outside, they actually differ from them internally. Furthermore, he says that if hundred people were lived there, then, there would be more fireplaces to accommodate a large number of the people, but, indeed, the houses had few fireplaces enough for ten families maximally.

Second, The professor also explains that the other theory that claims that the buildings were used to store the maize is actually unrealistic. He elaborates this point further by saying that if the houses were used to store food supply, there would be some maize on the ground or maize container in these buildings, but, in fact, none of these were found in Chaco structures.

Finally, the third theory states that houses were used as ceremonial centers. This point is argued by the professor. He states that houses were contained a large quantity of construction materials like stones, thus, they were unsuitable places for the ceremony. besides, the broken pots that found there are merely a trash and might be used by the constructors to prepare their food.

So, the professor successfully refutes all of the author's theories.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 394, Rule ID: NODT_DOZEN[1]
Message: Use simply: 'a hundred'.
Suggestion: a hundred
...nternally. Furthermore, he says that if hundred people were lived there, then, there wo...
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Line 3, column 479, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...would be more fireplaces to accommodate a large number of the people, but, indeed, the houses had...
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Line 7, column 263, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Besides
...ere unsuitable places for the ceremony. besides, the broken pots that found there are m...
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Line 7, column 385, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...the constructors to prepare their food. So, the professor successfully refutes a...
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Line 9, column 40, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
... So, the professor successfully refutes all of the authors theories.
^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, look, second, so, then, third, thus, in fact, to begin with

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1476.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 289.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10726643599 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12310562562 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56015614609 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 145.348785872 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522491349481 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 452.7 419.366225166 108% => 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.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.8562903741 49.2860985944 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.428571429 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6428571429 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.35714285714 7.06452816374 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.314785410747 0.272083759551 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105922310075 0.0996497079465 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0609244615476 0.0662205650399 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1637939471 0.162205337803 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.082618373496 0.0443174109184 186% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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