The reading article talks about migration of Edmontosaurus dinosaurs once lived in artic region and three supporting details that points towards migration during winter months. The lecture refutes the theories presented in the reading and states that these reasons are not convincing enough.
First, the reading passage states that, diet was the critical reason these dinosaurs migrated during harsh artic winter. Plants could not sustain during dark and cold winter. Edmontosaurs migrated to temperate zones in search of food. The lecture argues that, Artic summer had warm temperature millions years ago; with 24 hours day sunlight during a peak summer. This weather condition was beneficial for plants to grow. Also, dead vegetation during winter were enough for these animals to survive during cold.
Next, the reading presents an argument that many skeletons of Edmontosaurus were found at same site and these animals lived in herds just like buffaloes and caribous. However, the lecture dismisses the claims and points it out that, there are some animal species that live in herds but does not migrate like Roosevelt Elk. Living in herd provides extra protection to the animals.
Lastly, the passage claims that, the size of Edmontosaurs’s helped them to travel long distances. The lecture refuses the claim and states that, even if adult Edmontosaurs were capable of migrating at faster pace, juveniles could not have match up the speed and could have slowed down the herd. Herds do not live juveniles behind and would have forced to stay at North Slope over the winter.
In conclusion, the lecture disagrees with the three claims presented in the reading passage and states that it lacks enough evidence.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, lastly, so, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1458.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 274.0 270.72406181 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32116788321 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48066743162 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.580291970803 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 435.6 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => 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: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.6937231487 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.2 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2666666667 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.73333333333 7.06452816374 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.371507251558 0.272083759551 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.127241153766 0.0996497079465 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0763069333888 0.0662205650399 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182865840452 0.162205337803 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.106462475398 0.0443174109184 240% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.3589403974 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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