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 North America by European explor

The reading and the lecture are both about European silver coin discovered from Maine in the United States brought to North America by European explorers known as the Norse. The reading feels that the historical coin is fake. The lecture challenges made by the author. She is of the opinion that the coin is genuine and a historical coin.

To begin with, the author argues that the Native American site in Maine where the coin was discovered is located very far from other sites documenting a Norse presence in North America. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. She claims America has great distance to Canada and they find many objects so the silver coin is not fake. Additionally, she says American do not bring only coins.

Secondly, the writer suggests that no other coins have been found at the Canadian sites. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning Norse went to Maine but they bring the coins back to Europe and their other valuable things. She elaborates on this by bringing up the point that although they found only the silver coin it does not mean that the Norse did not go to the place where they found the coin.

Finally, the author posits that silver coin would to be useless the Native Americans so why Norse people would bring the coins. Moreover, it states in the article that North Americans did not know silver coins as money. In contrast, the lecturer’s position is North American did not use money is correct but they use it for other objects; such as, necklace or jewelry because silver coins are shiny.

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Average: 8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 107, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...scovered from Maine in the United States brought to North America by European exp...
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Line 1, column 228, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...feels that the historical coin is fake. The lecture challenges made by the author. ...
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Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...o the place where they found the coin. Finally, the author posits that silver c...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, in contrast, such as, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1296.0 1373.03311258 94% => OK
No of words: 271.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.78228782288 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05734859645 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.28207825376 2.5805825403 88% => OK
Unique words: 140.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.516605166052 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 403.2 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
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: 51.5336228662 49.2860985944 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.5714285714 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3571428571 21.698381199 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.71428571429 7.06452816374 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => 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: 0.36822251217 0.272083759551 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.12554413925 0.0996497079465 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106960191319 0.0662205650399 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.228151326942 0.162205337803 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0785102366329 0.0443174109184 177% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.3589403974 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.44 12.2367328918 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.61 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 63.6247240618 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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