The reading and the lecture are discussing the lines that are found around the skeleton of a type of dinosaur found in some fossils. The reading goes against the idea that these lines represent feathers, while the lecturer supports the possibility that these lines represents feathers and she refutes all the claims in the reading. The lecturer provides three evidences to support her argument.
First, the reading suggests that these lines could have been formed after the death, then the decomposition of the dinosaurs, and they are just lines formed in the volcanic ash. The lecturer, on the other hand, rebuts this claim by stating that the feathers of the other animals founds in the fossils in the same areas are well preserved and it they did not turn into lines. As a result, that is a vivid evidence that these lines were part of the body of the dinosaurs and likely to be feathers.
Second, the reading mentions that dinosaurs usually had frills around their body, therefore, these lines is possibly are just frills, not feathers. However, the lecturer argues against this claim by stating that there is a major difference between the chemical composition of frills and feathers. The feathers contain beta-carotene, whereas the frills do not contain this element. These lines contain beta-carotene. Hence, these lines are certainly not frills, and they are likely to be feathers.
Third, the reading claims that these lines are not part of the skeleton of the animal, so they have no function. The lecturer, on the other hand, contends this claim by saying that the feathers may have been used as in display function. He supported his idea by giving example about the peacock that used its tail during the courtship to attract the female. Therefore, these feathers could have been used in other function rather than flying.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
...le the lecturer supports the possibility that these lines represents feathers and...
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... refutes all the claims in the reading. The lecturer provides three evidences to su...
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Suggestion: been
...ody, therefore, these lines is possibly are just frills, not feathers. However, th...
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Suggestion:
...refore, these lines is possibly are just frills, not feathers. However, the lectu...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, may, second, so, then, therefore, third, well, whereas, while, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1536.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 307.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00325732899 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18585898806 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43923271376 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 145.348785872 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.469055374593 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 463.5 419.366225166 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.2272646822 49.2860985944 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.4 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4666666667 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.33333333333 7.06452816374 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.316312939924 0.272083759551 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118241129276 0.0996497079465 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0665592128639 0.0662205650399 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206420062708 0.162205337803 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0511234925401 0.0443174109184 115% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.72 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.92 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.