Lecture + Reading passage regarding altruistic behaviors
The lecture's content shows a complete opposite point of view over what reading passage says regarding altruistic behaviors. On the first, it is stated that there is not such a thing as true altruism, as the animals or humans who show altruistic behaviors are in fact receiving or have received some reward from it. Contrary to what is said on the second: that humans and animals are capable of behaving altruistically without gaining any reward for themselves,
More specifically, in the lecture the professor suggests that there has been evidence supporting the fact that meerkats don’t act under altruistic motivation, as they have already eaten by the time their watch begins and have greater possibilities than the other meerkats to find shelter after giving the alarm voice over a predator presence. This two things represent a gain for the individual meerkat and is contrary to what is established on the reading passage, where the animal only watches the others eat while it is exposed to danger by standing guard.
Furthermore, the professor also defends that humans don’t show true altruistic behaviors when donating organs, as they may as well be receiving appreciation from the stranger receiving the organ as well as they could do from society. Additionally, the professor believes that by doing such altruistic acts, people increase their self-worth, feeling more valuable and consequently, receiving a reward for its acts.
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- Written paragraph:In many organizations, perhaps the best way to approach certain new projects is toassemble a group of people into a team. Having a team of people attack a project offersseveral advantages. First of all, a group of people has a wider rang 78
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 461, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...thout gaining any reward for themselves, More specifically, in the lecture the pr...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, first, furthermore, if, may, regarding, second, so, well, while, in fact, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1224.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 231.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.2987012987 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89854898053 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84363855687 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.61038961039 0.540411800872 113% => OK
syllable_count: 372.6 419.366225166 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.116997792494 855% => Less interrogative sentences wanted.
Article: 3.0 8.23620309051 36% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 6.0 13.0662251656 46% => 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: 38.0 21.2450331126 179% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 120.095448151 49.2860985944 244% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 204.0 110.228320801 185% => OK
Words per sentence: 38.5 21.698381199 177% => OK
Discourse Markers: 17.3333333333 7.06452816374 245% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.236641902793 0.272083759551 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.122152077434 0.0996497079465 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.117309729368 0.0662205650399 177% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.154194498723 0.162205337803 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.101203822765 0.0443174109184 228% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 22.8 13.3589403974 171% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 32.91 53.8541721854 61% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 18.1 11.0289183223 164% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.05 12.2367328918 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.55 8.42419426049 113% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 10.7273730684 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 17.2 10.498013245 164% => OK
text_standard: 18.0 11.2008830022 161% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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