The reading and the lecturer are both about the Pterosaurs which are cold-blooded animals. The author of the reading states that Paleontologists have wondered whether these Pterosaurs are capable of the powered flight and provides three reasons for support against Pterosaurs. However, the lecturer refutes each of the author's points by saying none of them are convincing.
Firstly, the article claims that powered fly will require a lot of energy where cold-blooded animals have low metabolism, and they cannot fly like warm-blooded animals. Nevertheless, the lecturer refutes this point by saying that Pterosaurs have hair and fur on their body which can control their temperatures like warm-blooded animals.
Secondly, the text conveys that Pterosaurs are very large and heavy animals like giraffe where they cannot flap their wings fast. However, the professor opposes this point by saying that Pterosaurs are very light animals which can fly for any length of time.
Thirdly, the article posits that to fly into the air animals should jump from their legs or run to gain speed just like birds. But Pterosaurs have very weak back leg muscles where these cannot fly. On the hand, the professor says that Pterosaurs uses all four limbs and they push off the ground. Hence, there is no trouble for them to fly into the air.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, hence, however, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 5.01324503311 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1125.0 1373.03311258 82% => OK
No of words: 217.0 270.72406181 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18433179724 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.8380880478 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52558947997 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 120.0 145.348785872 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.552995391705 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 329.4 419.366225166 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.9563811762 49.2860985944 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.272727273 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7272727273 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.90909090909 7.06452816374 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => 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: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.384456860736 0.272083759551 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.147507556074 0.0996497079465 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0649997816663 0.0662205650399 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.237239021365 0.162205337803 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0278643721996 0.0443174109184 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.3589403974 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.27 8.42419426049 86% => OK
difficult_words: 37.0 63.6247240618 58% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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