Question : Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the specific points made in the reading passage.
Undoubtedly, dinosaurs' ability to fly has always been a controversial topic among specialists. More specifically, the reading puts forth the argument about a special kind of dinosaurs, namely Pterosaurs, not being able to fly, and elaborates this claim by some reasons. On the other hand, the professor believes that there are some serious flaws with the points made in the reading. She, in detail, addresses the problem with each point made in the reading.
First of all, the writer states that these animals are cold blooded, and cold blooded animals can not produce the amount of energy needed to fly because of their slow metabolism. The professor, however, claims that recent researches show existence of some dense fur covering on Pterosaurs. Fur is needed for animals with high metabolism, so this means that these dinosaurs were probably warm blooded, and therefore, had no problem to produce enough energy to fly.
Secondly, the writer talks about Pterosaurs heavy weight making them unable to fly. Not suprisingly though, the professor holds an opposing view and says that their special anatomy, like their bones being hollow, made them weigh much less that their body size, resulting in them being perfectly fit for an airborne animal.
Finally, the reading wraps up the argument and points out the fact that all animals with powered flight were able to take off from the ground. It also states the inability of Pterosaurs to take off because of not having powerful muscles in ther back legs. Then again, the lecturer refutes this point by claiming that these animals are not like any other birds. They use all four legs to take off instead of using only the hind muscles. She also brings up an example of bats as a modern animal who similarly use all four legs to take off.
In conclusion, The writer and the lecturer obviously have conflicting views about Pterosaurs ability to fly.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 45, Rule ID: HEAVY_WEIGHT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'heavyweight'?
Suggestion: heavyweight
...ndly, the writer talks about Pterosaurs heavy weight making them unable to fly. Not suprisin...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, similarly, so, then, therefore, in conclusion, kind of, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 30.3222958057 158% => 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: 1598.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 318.0 270.72406181 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0251572327 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22286093782 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44768853133 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 145.348785872 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.575471698113 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 486.9 419.366225166 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.994616962 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.533333333 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.33333333333 7.06452816374 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.11801878024 0.272083759551 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.042097088853 0.0996497079465 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0562697514252 0.0662205650399 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0592406379807 0.162205337803 37% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0622361263321 0.0443174109184 140% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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