The reading and the lecture are both about whether dinosaurs are endotherms, which are species that can regulate their body temperature on a constant temperature. The author of the reading believes that, dinosaurs are endotherms whereas the lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article and thus she states that dinosaurs are not endotherms.
First, the author points out that the discovery of dinosaur fossils in polar regions leads to the belief that dinosaurs are endotherm. It is mentioned that only endotherms have the ability to survive in such a cold surrounding environment. This point is challenged by the lecturer, who argues that today’s polar regions were previously warmer. Further, she illustrates that dinosaurs might migrated to warmer regions, rather than stayed in the colder regions.
Secondly, the author contends that the leg positon of dinosaurs is another potential proof that dinosaurs are endotherms, since animals with legs positioned underneath its body are more efficient to achieve sustained physical activity. Further this is characteristic for endotherms. However, the lecturer rebuts this argument. She suggests that the only reason why dinosaurs’ legs are beneath their body is to support the weight.
Finally, the author states that dinosaurs are showing Haversian canals, which allows to grow rapidly. The article establishes that these can also be discovered in modern endotherms. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that the grow rate of dinosaurs was unsteady. She argues that the thickening of bones slowed the growth of dinosaurs, which is untypically for endotherms since they show a rapid steady growth.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...h their body is to support the weight. Finally, the author states that dinosaur...
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Line 7, column 86, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'growing'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'allow' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: growing
... showing Haversian canals, which allows to grow rapidly. The article establishes that t...
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Line 7, column 228, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...ecturer, on the other hand, posits that the grow rate of dinosaurs was unsteady. She arg...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, second, secondly, so, thus, whereas, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.4613686534 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => 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: 1420.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 258.0 270.72406181 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.50387596899 5.08290768461 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00778971557 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83255644234 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 145.348785872 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.573643410853 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 430.2 419.366225166 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.116997792494 855% => Less interrogative sentences wanted.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 50.3984126734 49.2860985944 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.428571429 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4285714286 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.42857142857 7.06452816374 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.144285107993 0.272083759551 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0515548626925 0.0996497079465 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0265966896351 0.0662205650399 40% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0865737563318 0.162205337803 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0386492041151 0.0443174109184 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 53.8541721854 83% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.62 12.2367328918 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.36 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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