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 b

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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

The article states that Voynich manuscript which is claimed to be written in 16 or 17 centuries, is an issue of debate and provides three different theories about origin of that. In contrast, the lecturer explains that none of these theories is meaningful and refutes each proposal.

First, the article explains that the first theory proposes that this genuine work book maybe was written by Ascham because there are some similarities between them. On the other hand, the professor opposes this idea by saying that the Aschame's book, A little herbal, does not have any original idea and it is only some gathering about well-known plants and it can’t be compare with the elaborated magic and secret book like as Voynich manuscript.
Second, the article provides the second proposal which it claims this Asham's manuscript is no more than a really fake book without any special meaning. However, the professor argues this point by explaining that in the 16 century it did not need to write a difficult coded book to trick people. He implies that this hardworking book contains many secret and magic.
Third, in the reading, the third proposal posits that Ascham's manuscript can be a modern fake created by Wilfrid M. Voynich to sell as an ancient book. The professor opposes this theory by brings this statement that this book composed of paper and ink that goes back to 400 years ago; and he might provide old pages from other ancient books but he could not get or produce a 400 years old ink to write this book.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, really, second, so, third, well, in contrast

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1260.0 1373.03311258 92% => OK
No of words: 261.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 4.8275862069 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0193898071 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.37825199653 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.582375478927 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 375.3 419.366225166 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 74.2429121196 49.2860985944 151% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.0 110.228320801 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1 21.698381199 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.4 7.06452816374 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.148944934064 0.272083759551 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0657992898117 0.0996497079465 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0364889132103 0.0662205650399 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0949862511217 0.162205337803 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0168296973272 0.0443174109184 38% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.3589403974 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 62.01 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.03 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => 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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