Both the reading and the lecture discuss the hypothesis that a kind of dinosaurs, edmontosaur, living in the Alaska's North Slope would migrate to temperate zones in winter. The reading material offers three reasons to support the hypothesis. However, the lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article.
To begin with, the author of the article points out that Edmontosaurs only feed on plants, which means that they must leave for food in harsh winter. Nonetheless, the points is challenged by the professor, and she says that Edmontosaurs don't need to migrate for food. To clarify that, one hundred millions ago, earth was much warmer than today, and the daylight was sufficient, so there were a variety of vegetable at that time. Therefore, the dinosaurs living in North Slope could eat nutritious vegetation in winter for sure.
Second, the reading states that many edmontosaur skeletons have been found from the same site, which means they lived together and migratory animal always live together. Conversely, the professor argue that just because those dinosaurs lived in herd doesn't mean they are migratory animals. Sometimes they lived in herd for extra protection from predators. For instance, a kind of elk habitating in the US live in herd, but they are not migratory animals. Thus, this theory is not plausible at all.
Last, the passage contends that edmonsaurs were physically able to migrate long distances. Nevertheless, the scholar disagrees with idea, and she maintains that adult dinosaurs could run fast, but young dinosaurs were not capable of moving swiftly to the destination. Young dinosaurs would not survive if they could only walk on their own. Therefore, this reason is totally unconvincing.
The professor successfully casts doubt on all of the claim presented in the article.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 238, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...ofessor, and she says that Edmontosaurs dont need to migrate for food. To clarify th...
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Line 5, column 251, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...t because those dinosaurs lived in herd doesnt mean they are migratory animals. Someti...
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Line 10, column 43, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...e professor successfully casts doubt on all of the claim presented in the article.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, however, if, nevertheless, nonetheless, second, so, therefore, thus, for instance, kind of, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1537.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 293.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2457337884 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67255762703 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59385665529 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 459.9 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.51434878587 330% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.7333062565 49.2860985944 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.4117647059 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2352941176 21.698381199 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.17647058824 7.06452816374 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => 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: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.352822572591 0.272083759551 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0960647247113 0.0996497079465 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0679002012785 0.0662205650399 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156653458774 0.162205337803 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0826872011861 0.0443174109184 187% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.3589403974 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.87 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => 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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