Altruism behavior
The reading and the lecture are both about altruism, a type of behavior. The author of the reading feels that altruism, which is a selfless act, is found in both human and other mammals. The article uses the example of Meerkat, which is a mammal, to prove the altruistic behavior. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. She is of the opinion that the behavior exhibited by human and mammals is not entirely altruistic.
To begin with, the author points out that a meerkat serve as a guard to other meerkats so that they can hunt for the food or eat the obtained food freely without being afraid of the predators. The article mentions that the meerkat, which is serving as the guard, do its altruistic job without food and faces danger from approaching predators. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. She claims that the guarding meerkat usually eat well and full
before starting its "Altruistic" job as sentinel. Additionally, she says that the guard meerkat which stand near the burrows could easily escape into the burrows while at the same time alerting it's peers of the looming predator's threat. She says that the other meerkats, which usually are located away from their burrows, couldn't escape easily from the enemy.
Secondly, the writer suggests that the sentinel meerkat, which guards alone, is the easy target for the predator and other meerkats, which usually be in groups, could escape effortlessly from the danger. In the article, it is said that since the sentinel meerkat is alone, it has to run alone to escape from the predator. The lecturer, however, rebut this by mentioning that the alarm given by the sentinel usually distracts predator's attention from it to it's group. She elaborates on this by bringing up the point that the other meerkats, which is in groups, typically gather or move about quickly which in turn generates enemy's attention towards them.
Finally, the author posits that humans are known for their altruistic behavior. Moreover, it is stated in the article that humans express their good nature such as share their food to the needy or even donate their organs. In contrast, the lecturer's position is that humans benefit more by doing such selfless acts. She notes that even though humans involve in acts such as donation of organs to strangers, they get appreciation and accolades from the society. According to her, "Altruistic" acts gives increased self-worth and values to the committing individual.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 188, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... found in both human and other mammals. The article uses the example of Meerkat, wh...
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Line 1, column 282, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...mmal, to prove the altruistic behavior. The lecturer challenges the claims made by ...
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Line 4, column 333, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: couldn't
...ly are located away from their burrows, couldnt escape easily from the enemy. Second...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, well, while, as to, in contrast, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 25.0 12.0772626932 207% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 42.0 22.412803532 187% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 52.0 30.3222958057 171% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2094.0 1373.03311258 153% => OK
No of words: 414.0 270.72406181 153% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05797101449 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51076378781 4.04702891845 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72213970529 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 145.348785872 139% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.487922705314 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 624.6 419.366225166 149% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 3.25607064018 338% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.5475315029 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.7 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.7 7.06452816374 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.107801193066 0.272083759551 40% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0482692032596 0.0996497079465 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0998146179315 0.0662205650399 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0748415963167 0.162205337803 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.130703136856 0.0443174109184 295% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.3589403974 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 63.6247240618 157% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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