TPO31-Integrated Writing
The lecture is mainly discussing the lines in the Sinosauropteryx fossil represent feathers, challenging the opposing views mentioned in the reading passage.
Firstly, it is said in the reading that the fine lines may be result of skin fibers’ decomposition but not feathers. In contrast, the professor thinks that it cannot be remains of skin fibers because we don’t see any such decomposition in the fossils of other animals buried at the same site. Moreover, she indicates that fossils of many other animals buried at the site show evidence that their functional skin structures have been beautifully preserved in volcanic ash. Thus, the Sinosauropteryx’s feathers can also be preserved as lines in fossils.
Secondly, the reading passage claims that the fine lines are more likely to be fossilized remains of frills than remains of feathers. However, the professor holds an opposite opinion. She claims that the fine lines in Sinosauropteryx's fossil cannot be frills because they contain certain protein. In other words, the Sinosauropteryx structures did contain certain protein that can only be detected in these fine lines but not in the frills.
Finally, the reading believes that the lines do not represent feathers because they were located along the backbone and the tail of the animal, so they seemed useless. But the professor disagrees with it by pointing out that the lines can represent feathers because one of other birds also has feathers on its tail. In fact, the colorful feathers of this bird are displayed to attract mates. Since Sinosauropteryx's fine lines are also colorful, they can represent feathers that this dinosaur used for display.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, in contrast, in fact, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1423.0 1373.03311258 104% => OK
No of words: 267.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32958801498 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04229324003 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00529534946 2.5805825403 116% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 145.348785872 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.516853932584 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 437.4 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.8180400933 49.2860985944 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.461538462 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5384615385 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.84615384615 7.06452816374 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.446967729661 0.272083759551 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.163443786921 0.0996497079465 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0683098357402 0.0662205650399 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.260771945638 0.162205337803 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0351841402977 0.0443174109184 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.3589403974 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.63 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.