TPO-30 - Integrated Writing Task A little over 2,200 years ago, the Roman navy attacked the Greek port city of Syracuse. According to some ancient historians, the Greeks defended themselves with an ingenious weapon called a "burning mirror": a polished co

In the given set of materials, the main topic has centered on the authenticity of using a specific weapon called "burning mirror", in the ancient Greek wars, especially with the Romans. While the author has claimed that it was a myth to fire ships through sun's rays, the speaker in the follow-up material cast doubt on those points in a number of ways.

The first point in the article is that ancient advances would not be so progressed to build such an elaborate curved sheet copper. However, this was questioned by the lecturer as she stated that due to development in Greek math equations, this concept seemed feasible to construct several sheets instead of one that acted perfectly.

Moreover, according to the essay, this assumption not only needed a long time to perform accurately but also it required the target to be stable which caused burning mirror's application invalidate. Nonetheless, the speaker discussed that others composition of the boat such a pitch were really combustible that led the burning process to happen quickly even with a buoyant target.

Last but not least, the writer has declared that the burning mirror did not have any competitive advantage to flaming arrows for using them as a developed equipment. Conversely, soldiers applied such a weapon to attack effectively and surprisingly.

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Average: 8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 239, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'others'' or 'other's'?
Suggestion: others'; other's
...Nonetheless, the speaker discussed that others composition of the boat such a pitch we...
^^^^^^

Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'conversely', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'nonetheless', 'really', 'so', 'then', 'while']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.227272727273 0.261695866417 87% => OK
Verbs: 0.169421487603 0.158904122519 107% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0867768595041 0.0723426182421 120% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0826446280992 0.0435111971325 190% => Less adverbs wanted.
Pronouns: 0.0165289256198 0.0277247811725 60% => OK
Prepositions: 0.107438016529 0.128828473217 83% => OK
Participles: 0.0537190082645 0.0370669169778 145% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.83277853058 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0413223140496 0.0208969081088 198% => Less infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.132231404959 0.128158765124 103% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00413223140496 0.0158828679856 26% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0123966942149 0.0114777025283 108% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1336.0 1645.83664459 81% => OK
No of words: 217.0 271.125827815 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.15668202765 6.08160592843 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.8380880478 4.04852973271 95% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.396313364055 0.374372842146 106% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.290322580645 0.287516216867 101% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.184331797235 0.187439937562 98% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.138248847926 0.113142543107 122% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83277853058 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.672811059908 0.539623497131 125% => OK
Word variations: 75.6935963871 53.8517498576 141% => OK
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0529801325 61% => OK
Sentence length: 27.125 21.7502111507 125% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.5765884561 49.3711431718 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 167.0 132.220823453 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.125 21.7502111507 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.5 0.878197800319 171% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.39072847682 29% => OK
Readability: 56.1572580645 50.5018328374 111% => OK
Elegance: 1.44615384615 1.90840788429 76% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.66806995365 0.549887131256 121% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.114199514431 0.142949733639 80% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0616937049919 0.0787303798458 78% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.704388750951 0.631733273073 112% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.124904945751 0.139662658121 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.317545504694 0.266732575781 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0920322232926 0.103435571967 89% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.288269819862 0.414875509568 69% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0158574197298 0.0530846634433 30% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.424355529718 0.40443939384 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0461742939771 0.0528353158467 87% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.26048565121 23% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 2.0 3.49668874172 57% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.62251655629 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 3.1766004415 31% => OK
Total topic words: 5.0 10.2958057395 49% => More topic words wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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