The reading and the lecture are both about the Edmontosaurus fossils that found on North Slope. The reading believes that these creatures immigrated to warmer areas during winter and provides three possible theses to support this view. However, the lecturer explains that these speculations are not convincing and refutes each of the reading's hypotheses.
First of all, the reading states that the diet of these animals, which was plants support the migration thesis. However, the lecturer opposes this idea by explaining that these animals could feed on dead plants in the winter. She says that the sun in the summer season in North Slope was 24 hours a day, So there is plenty of food during summer and dead plant in winter.
Secondly, the reading claims that remains of bone that correlated to these animals pointed out they lived in a herd, so, that support the migration thesis.
However, the lecturer counters this point by saying living in herds does not mean the herds need to immigrate. According to the professor, living in herds could be for protection purpose. She says an example of a kind of animal, which lives in the forest like a group with no migration activity.
Thirdly, the article mentions that these animals had the physical power that they needed to move to a warmer place. On the other hand, the lecture posits this claim by saying that in herds could be young animals that they were not able to immigrate. these young members would slow the herds' movement. They could not reach to the particular place at the time and the herds could not leave them behind.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 251, Rule ID: THE_FALL_SEASON[1]
Message: Use simply 'summer'.
Suggestion: summer
...in the winter. She says that the sun in the summer season in North Slope was 24 hours a day, So t...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 250, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: These
...s that they were not able to immigrate. these young members would slow the herds move...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 285, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'herds'' or 'herd's'?
Suggestion: herds'; herd's
...ate. these young members would slow the herds movement. They could not reach to the p...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, kind of, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1315.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 272.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.83455882353 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06108636974 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.30462514028 2.5805825403 89% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522058823529 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 388.8 419.366225166 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 26.3443639172 49.2860985944 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 93.9285714286 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4285714286 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.71428571429 7.06452816374 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.246177716662 0.272083759551 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0902743203618 0.0996497079465 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.031965840346 0.0662205650399 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138869997711 0.162205337803 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0276819743881 0.0443174109184 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 53.8541721854 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 11.0289183223 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.73 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.54 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => 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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