According to the given set of the reading passage, it is the author's conviction that based on the relics on the fossils, the Edmontosaurus, which were living in the North Slope of Alaska, migrated to warmer regions due to several highlighted reasons in the text. On the contrary, the lecturer casts doubt on this justification by providing several counter-arguments that are as follows:
First of all, the reading holds the view that since the Edmontosaurus foraged on plants they should have migrated to other areas because there was not the possibility of plants growing in the cold and dark climate. However, the lecturer finds this hypothesis unconvincing and asserts that the weather, particularly in the summer was warmer than today due to the position of the sun, which was in a peak condition that days. As a result, there has been a suitable condition to vegetation thriving and the nutrients were reachable under the soil till the winter. Therefore, the living condition was so hospitable for the Edmontosaurus and thus the migration was unnecessary.
Secondly, although the author posits that living in the herds is another reason for the traveling of the Edmontosaurus, the lecturer says that there are some important reasons behind the living of animals in the herds. The main reason is that animals which inhabit in the herds can protect themselves very easily against predators. In addition, the lecturer exemplifies the Elk, which lives in the forest of Western United States. They never migrate owing to the existence of large plants. As a result, this hypothesis does not support their migration too.
As the last point to emphasize the reading theory, the author says that the Edmontosaurus had the power of long distances traveling. Yet again, the lecturer states on the opposite side and refutes this theory by explaining that it is true that these animals could have migrated long distances but, the younger age of these species physically did not have the capability of moving for hours and their parents did not leave them behind because they were not able to survive by their own.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 62, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...n set of the reading passage, it is the authors conviction that based on the relics on ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, in addition, as a result, first of all, it is true, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 47.0 30.3222958057 155% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1768.0 1373.03311258 129% => OK
No of words: 349.0 270.72406181 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0659025788 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32221490584 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74867402693 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 145.348785872 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512893982808 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 544.5 419.366225166 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 29.0 21.2450331126 137% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 96.7483849994 49.2860985944 196% => OK
Chars per sentence: 147.333333333 110.228320801 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.0833333333 21.698381199 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.9166666667 7.06452816374 155% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.280461033328 0.272083759551 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0940564963164 0.0996497079465 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0506653379473 0.0662205650399 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159737759105 0.162205337803 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00894507093342 0.0443174109184 20% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.0 13.3589403974 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 53.8541721854 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.0289183223 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.72 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 28.0 10.7273730684 261% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.498013245 130% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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