The article discusses the hypothesis that considers the possibility of migrating Edmontosaurs from Alaska's North Slope to southern regions; based on the findings of their fossils. The professor, however, rejects this idea and thinks that the article's debates are not convincing and refutes each of them.
First, the article claims that edmontosaur's diet supports the migration hypothesis since there weren't enough plants for them to find in winters. The professor rejects this point and states that in the past the region was warmer and was getting sunlight in 20 hours a day during summertimes. It was good enough to help plants grow and proliferate so that edmontosaurs could survive on dead plants residuals in winters.
Second, the author argues that many edmontosaur's skeletons have been found from the same site that proves that they lived in herds, and they were migrating. The professor denies this point and says that this doesn't prove that they were migrating. She provides an example of the Rosevelt Elks that live in herds, but they do not migrate.
Finally, the author suggests that edmontosaurs were physically able to migrate in long distances. The professor refutes this point as well and explains that it doesn't prove that they have been migrating because their children wasn't grown enough to travel far distances. Therefore, they would slow down adults significantly, and the herd wouldn't leave their children behind, and they would stay together to survive the winter. Thus it is highly unlikely that edmontosaurs were migrating in the past.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, second, so, therefore, thus, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => 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: 1321.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 251.0 270.72406181 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26294820717 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98032404683 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5957574117 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.561752988048 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 380.7 419.366225166 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.7486625249 49.2860985944 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.083333333 110.228320801 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9166666667 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.58333333333 7.06452816374 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
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: 0.315586255335 0.272083759551 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119894773867 0.0996497079465 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0750931907106 0.0662205650399 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.18063281603 0.162205337803 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0438980468143 0.0443174109184 99% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.