In 1912 a bookseller named Wilfrid M. Voynich acquired a beautifully illustrated handwritten book (manuscript) written on vellum (vellum is a material that was used for writing before the introduction of paper). The "Voynich manuscript," as it became kno

Both the article and the lecturer discuss a fascinating topic associated with voynich manuscript which was handwritten on vellum. The reading provides theories of aim of this book. However, the lecturer refutes each of the author's grounds.

First the reading passage discusses that the manuscript was a genuine, scientific work that is written in covert code. In contrary, the professor provides information that the author of book was ordinary physician who was not able to write elaborate text. He also states that example of flower in the book was already well known little herbal and it was widely used in common. Distinctly, a disparity exist between the article and the evidence exhibited by the professor. As a result, we can assume that the author had almost no factor to create the manuscript in the secret code.

Second, the reading pushes forth the idea that manuscript was really fake and had no meaning at all. Unlike this notion, the professor contends that, at that time people could easily have been fooled, so author had no reason to deceive the people at that time by writing fake manuscript. According to the professor, putting too much time on manuscript to cheat people is meaningless.

Finally, the article posit that manuscript might have been written by antique dealer whose purpose was to sell it wealthy noble. The professor refutes this point by explaining that even it had been created for that aim, there is no way to obtain the ink or paper that were used at that times, therefore attempt would be futile.

In summary, while the reading and the lecture provide interesting information with regard to voynich manuscript, a significant amount of evidence support that the listening presented more legitimate and tangible proofs. Hence, the reading passage fails to justify the claim towards the points which are made in the lecture.

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Average: 8 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, hence, however, if, really, second, so, therefore, well, while, as to, in summary, as a result, with regard to

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1565.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 308.0 270.72406181 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08116883117 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56014471295 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.568181818182 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 485.1 419.366225166 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.7576223159 49.2860985944 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.333333333 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5333333333 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.8 7.06452816374 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.203593548267 0.272083759551 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.066516145544 0.0996497079465 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.053462618105 0.0662205650399 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111453492724 0.162205337803 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0401725626637 0.0443174109184 91% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.3589403974 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 63.6247240618 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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