The passage lists several disadvantages of the growth in the business of selling and buying fossils in private markets. However, the professor in the lecture refutes the author's claim; Even though the professor agrees that there would be negative consequences, she states that the benefits of flourishing private markets for fossils outweigh its drawbacks.
First of all, the lecturer claims that we would expose to an immense number of fossils available with a wide range of prices, and as a result, public organizations, such as museums and schools would probably afford to buy some fossils. This point contradicts that part of the passage which alleges that private markets will restrict the accessibility of the public to the highly-priced fossils.
Furthermore, the professor challenges the assertion in the writing that tending to collect valuable fossils privately would lead to limiting the access of scientists to them. According to the professor, determining merits of a fossil requires the exact identification of its features by scientific experts. Therefore, not only would not private markets reduce the number of fossils, but they would give rise to exposure of a tremendous number of fossils to scientists and research institutes as well because the fossils have to pass to them at first.
Finally, the lecturer asserts that discovering numerous fossils is more beneficial for the scientific community despite the damage that might occur to the data due to the careless behavior of fossil collectors. Consenting the fact that the damage is inevitable, the professor finds it advantageous compared to leaving all those fossils and data undiscovered.
- TOEFL T P O 14 - Integrated Writing Task 3
- Independent TOEFL essay TPO 8 Agree or disagree Television advertising directed towards young children aged two to five should not be allowed 83
- TPO 13- Private collectors have been selling and buying fossils, the petrified remains of ancient organisms, ever since the eighteenth century. In recent years, however, the sale of fossils, particularly of dinosaurs and other large vertebrates, has grown 85
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 78
- TPO6 3
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, so, therefore, well, such as, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 10.4613686534 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1414.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 260.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.43846153846 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01553427287 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94695711082 2.5805825403 114% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.576923076923 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 432.9 419.366225166 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 45.5094617757 49.2860985944 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 157.111111111 110.228320801 143% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.8888888889 21.698381199 133% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.3333333333 7.06452816374 160% => 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 : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.377764083304 0.272083759551 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.158715030964 0.0996497079465 159% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0499220750415 0.0662205650399 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.224513833011 0.162205337803 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0463482472425 0.0443174109184 105% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.6 13.3589403974 139% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.6 53.8541721854 64% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 11.0289183223 140% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.86 12.2367328918 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.82 8.42419426049 117% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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