Altruism
The reading passage and the lecturer talk about Altruism. This is a type of behaviour in which one scarifies our own need for others. In order to explain, altruism, the writer mentions a few examples related to mammals and humans such as meerkats. While the speaker in the listening passage disagrees with the writes. She says that when researchers re-examined the assumptions based on the altruism, the result challenges each of the writer’s points.
First, the article mentions about the meerkats. These are African animals which dwell in burrows in grassland. The author states that meerkats has individual sentinel, which guard the group from the predators when they are busy gathering or eating food. While the sentinel scarifies his own food so that others can eat it first. The professor opposes the claim. She says that based on recent research it is found that the sentinel eats before the other meerkats. So, it is totally opposite to the earlier assumption.
Also, the author notes that while the sentinel guards the group, if the predator attacks, then the sentinel has to scarify his own life because after getting the warning other meerkats gather together while the sentinel gets left alone. The Lecturer refutes this argument. She says the sentinel is the first one to get inside the burrow and escape from the predator because it stands near to the burrow. Furthermore, she argues that when the sentinel alarms other meerkats, they gather together which draws more attention to the predator toward them.
Lastly, the article posits that humans also show altruism behaviour in many ways such as sharing food or donating organs. He adds that when a person donates an organ to a stranger or a family member, then that person does not receive any kind of benefit or appreciation. However, the professor points out that after the re-evaluation of the act. It is found that the donor receives appreciation or approval from the stranger or society. Additionally, for some people, it is a non-material reward and it is valuable to them.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 249, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “While” 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.
...to mammals and humans such as meerkats. While the speaker in the listening passage di...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, however, if, lastly, so, then, well, while, as to, kind of, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 12.0772626932 166% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1718.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 341.0 270.72406181 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03812316716 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29722995808 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54634293996 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 145.348785872 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.542521994135 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 514.8 419.366225166 123% => 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 13.0662251656 161% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 47.5419375674 49.2860985944 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 81.8095238095 110.228320801 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2380952381 21.698381199 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.42857142857 7.06452816374 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.126885736825 0.272083759551 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0425421765076 0.0996497079465 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0900558826918 0.0662205650399 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0935712380264 0.162205337803 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.116957738789 0.0443174109184 264% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 13.3589403974 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 63.6247240618 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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