TPO-29 - Integrated Writing Task Large numbers of dinosaur fossils have been discovered in deposits on Alaska's North Slope, a region that today experiences an extremely cold,arctic climate. One hundred million years ago, when those dinosaurs were alive,

Writing and lecture are both about dinosaur fossils, which were discovered in Alaska's North Slope. It is allegedly believed that edmontosaurus used to be migratory animals. On the one side, the writer asserts this in the article by presenting some hypotheses. On the other side, the lecturer casts doubts on the claims made in the article, underlining that the proofs are not convincing when compared with real facts.

First, it was not necessary for dinosaurs to migrate in order to find food during winter. The writer states that the winters were very cold, and thus it was impossible for plant to grow. However, the lecturer rejects this argument, by adding that summers were warmer than today, and because of the high temperatures large quantities of vegetation were produced. Therefore, the plants which were dying during summer, covered the land and produced nutrients for the animals. So, this standpoint contradicts the passage.

Second, animals live in herds for numerous motifs such us defending from predators, not only to migrate. For instance, the Roosevelt Elks, which live in Western North America, do not migrate from one part to another, even though they are organized in herds. Thereby, the author's point of view is not valid.

Third, only mature dinosaurs were able to walk for long distances. The writer affirms that edmontosaurus were physically adapted to walk thousands of kilometers towards warmer places. Anyway, the lecturer infringes this by underlining that their pubs could not travel that much, and consequently they would have slow down the herd, preventing dinosaurs from reaching other lands. Thus, the theory sustained by the author lacks of realism. To summarize, the author and the speaker seem to be in totally disagreement regarding this topic.

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...ntly they would have slow down the herd, preventing dinosaurs from reaching other...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
anyway, consequently, first, however, if, regarding, second, so, therefore, third, thus, for instance

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1506.0 1373.03311258 110% => OK
No of words: 286.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26573426573 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60826974349 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.608391608392 0.540411800872 113% => OK
syllable_count: 458.1 419.366225166 109% => 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: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.4350511254 49.2860985944 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.5882352941 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8235294118 21.698381199 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.94117647059 7.06452816374 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.257339308854 0.272083759551 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0701927365804 0.0996497079465 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.060383082357 0.0662205650399 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139451372275 0.162205337803 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0289448829319 0.0443174109184 65% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.99 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 63.6247240618 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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