The article is discussing the issue that edmontosaurs survived the winter by migrating south to hospitable regions; however, the professor in the lecture holds a point of view against the article for several reasons.
First of all, the article mentions that the edmontosaur’s diet supports the migration hypothesis since they needed to find plants which did not grow in the winter. On the contrary, the professor says that the edmontosaurs didn’t have to migrate since North Slope was warmer than today where the sun shone 24 hours during summer which provided plants with a great growth condition. Furthermore, while the plants would die in the winter, the edmontosaurs could still eat the plants which contained lots of nutrients.
Second, the article states that edmontosaur must be migratory animal since the modern-day animals which lived in herd are migratory. In contrast, the professor suggests that living in herd does not represent that the animals have the tendency to migrate. They lived in herd for many reasons such as protecting themselves from the predators. Also, for example, elks live in herb in Northwest America but they do not migrate.
Finally, the article shows that edmontosaurs were physically capable of migrating long distances. However, the professor argues that the young edmontosaurs could not endure the traveling in long distances and they would slow down the herb. Thus, edmontosaurs tended to stay in North Slope since they could not leave the juveniles behind which could not survive by themselves.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'finally', 'first', 'furthermore', 'however', 'second', 'so', 'still', 'thus', 'while', 'for example', 'in contrast', 'such as', 'first of all', 'on the contrary']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.256505576208 0.261695866417 98% => OK
Verbs: 0.159851301115 0.158904122519 101% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0594795539033 0.0723426182421 82% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0520446096654 0.0435111971325 120% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0260223048327 0.0277247811725 94% => OK
Prepositions: 0.148698884758 0.128828473217 115% => OK
Participles: 0.0148698884758 0.0370669169778 40% => Some participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 2.70315039799 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0185873605948 0.0208969081088 89% => OK
Particles: 0.00371747211896 0.00154638098197 240% => OK
Determiners: 0.118959107807 0.128158765124 93% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0260223048327 0.0158828679856 164% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0297397769517 0.0114777025283 259% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1546.0 1645.83664459 94% => OK
No of words: 245.0 271.125827815 90% => OK
Chars per words: 6.31020408163 6.08160592843 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.95632099841 4.04852973271 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.359183673469 0.374372842146 96% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.289795918367 0.287516216867 101% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.216326530612 0.187439937562 115% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.155102040816 0.113142543107 137% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70315039799 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.579591836735 0.539623497131 107% => OK
Word variations: 58.1933872676 53.8517498576 108% => OK
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0529801325 84% => OK
Sentence length: 22.2727272727 21.7502111507 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.8920539129 49.3711431718 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.545454545 132.220823453 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2727272727 21.7502111507 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.45454545455 0.878197800319 166% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.39072847682 0% => OK
Readability: 51.2523191095 50.5018328374 101% => OK
Elegance: 1.765625 1.90840788429 93% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.658266476815 0.549887131256 120% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.167602445895 0.142949733639 117% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0768327402928 0.0787303798458 98% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.682470058109 0.631733273073 108% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.150475681391 0.139662658121 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.341654398877 0.266732575781 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.129868304922 0.103435571967 126% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.441181643178 0.414875509568 106% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0672203318812 0.0530846634433 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.492695980494 0.40443939384 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0667983192218 0.0528353158467 126% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.26048565121 94% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 3.49668874172 143% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.62251655629 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 3.1766004415 126% => OK
Total topic words: 11.0 10.2958057395 107% => OK
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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