TPO-44 - Integrated Writing Task In 1957 a European silver coin dating to the eleventh century was discovered at a Native American archaeological site in the state of Maine in the United States. Many people believed the coin had been originally brought to

In the given set of material, the passage states that authenticity of the silver coin found in the site of Maine in US is questioned by some of the archeologists. They believe that its fake and provide three reasons to do so. However, the speaker in the follow up material cast doubts on those points by providing evidences.

First, the author mentions that the site where coin is found is located very far from other sites documenting the presence of Norse in North America. Conversely, the professor refutes this point and explains that along with coin many other objects have been found. Also, North Americans used to travel far of places and collect things from there of their choice. Hence, it is possible for them to get this coin.
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Second, the passage suggests that no other coins have been found at the Canadian site that was explored by the Norse. The lecturer rebuts this statement and justifies that Norse didn’t have permanent settlement in North America and so when they came from Europe they must have carried all the coins with them and while going back from America they took them all.

Third, the reading says that there was no value of these coins in North America and Norse knew this fact. Thus, there was no point in bringing them there. In contrast, the lecturer states that although they could not be used as money but they were found beautiful piece of art by the Americans. They used to use them in making necklaces and in other jewellery pieces. Thus, as long as they were valuable for Americans, Norse could use them for trading.

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Average: 6.8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 137, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...he site of Maine in US is questioned by some of the archeologists. They believe that its fa...
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Line 1, column 251, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...asons to do so. However, the speaker in the follow up material cast doubts on those points...
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Line 3, column 413, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the closing parenthesis
Suggestion: ]
... is possible for them to get this coin. ] Second, the passage suggests that no o...
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Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: EN_UNPAIRED_BRACKETS
Message: Unpaired symbol: '[' seems to be missing
...is possible for them to get this coin. ] Second, the passage suggests that no o...
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Line 7, column 454, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...cans, Norse could use them for trading.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, first, hence, however, if, second, so, then, third, thus, well, while, in contrast

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalization wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1301.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 274.0 270.72406181 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.74817518248 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.27119948649 2.5805825403 88% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 145.348785872 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551094890511 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 394.2 419.366225166 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.3736313686 49.2860985944 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.9285714286 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5714285714 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.5 7.06452816374 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.494808403858 0.272083759551 182% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.162057735922 0.0996497079465 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.11761351562 0.0662205650399 178% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.293512148433 0.162205337803 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.117134187108 0.0443174109184 264% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 13.3589403974 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 53.8541721854 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 11.0289183223 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.27 12.2367328918 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.4 8.42419426049 88% => OK
difficult_words: 49.0 63.6247240618 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK

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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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