TPO45-Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the specific points made in the reading passage
The main idea of both the reading passage and the lecture is about whether bees have existed on earth since 200 million years ago or not. While the author holds a skeptical view about this issue, the lecturer gives some logical reasons which indicate bees' existence on earth dates back to 200 million years ago.
First of all, the author avers that the as earliest bees' fossils relate to 100 million years ago hence there were not any bees on earth earlier that time. The lecturer, however, believes that this evidence is not convincing. She explains that resin is an essential element to preserve bees and as 200 million years ago trees which produce resin were rare, there is not any bees' fossil remain related to that time. Hence, it is possible that bees have existed since 200 million years ago.
Secondly, the author asserts that bees have a close association with flowering plants and depend on them for feeding. As flowering plants first appeared on earth 125 million years ago it is not likely that bees existed 200 million years ago. The lecturer, however, believes that it is not an indication of bees' nonexistence. She clarifies that 200 million years ago bees fed on nonflowering plants like ferns and pine trees and later with the appearance of flowering plants established a new relation.
Finally, the article claims that fossilized structures found in Arizona lack of some fine details of modern bees' nests. For instance, they lack caps with spiral patterns and it can be concluded that these nests have been made by other kinds of insects. Conversely, the lecturer opposes this viewpoint by pointing out that there is some chemical evidence which supports the theory that bees made those chambers. She explains that modern bees use special water-resistance material in order to protect their nests from water and remained fossilized chambers in Arizona also contain this chemical material and indicate that these chambers have been made by bees.
- TPO 38: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Leadership comes naturally: one cannot learn to be a leader. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 73
- TPO 40: Some parents offer their school-age children money for each high grade (mark) they get in school.Do you think this is a good idea?Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 73
- TPO 21: independent writing task 3
- TPO 22: integrated writing task 73
- TPO 46 85
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 374, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'bees'' or 'bee's'?
Suggestion: bees'; bee's
...oduce resin were rare, there is not any bees fossil remain related to that time. Hen...
^^^^
Line 5, column 119, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... plants and depend on them for feeding. As flowering plants first appeared on eart...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, conversely, finally, first, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, while, for instance, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1641.0 1373.03311258 120% => OK
No of words: 329.0 270.72406181 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98784194529 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25891501996 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.3792966715 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489361702128 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 499.5 419.366225166 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.9322677388 49.2860985944 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.214285714 110.228320801 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5 21.698381199 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.78571428571 7.06452816374 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0984154294561 0.272083759551 36% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0460185295797 0.0996497079465 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.018929438363 0.0662205650399 29% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0674767773751 0.162205337803 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0113010484367 0.0443174109184 26% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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