The Chevalier de Seingalt
The reading and the lecture discuss whether the memoir written by the Chevalier de Seingalt was accurate enough, but they have contradicting views. While the reading suggests that the events described in memoir were not true, the lecture opposes this claim
First, the reading states that the Chevalier borrowed large amount of money from a Swiss merchant; an act that is not usual among the wealthy people. The lecture, on the other hand, contradicts this idea by suggesting that taking a loan does not mean he was poor; he took the loan because his assets: lands, buildings required time to turn into cash, or in other words were not very liquid.
Second, another skeptical point that the reading makes is about the accuracy of his conversations with the famous writer Voltier. The passage raises this because the memoir was written many years after these meetings happened. The lecture, however, refutes this statement by saying that the Chevalier used to write every night everything that he could remember from what Voltier said earlier during that day. Moreover, several witnesses had confirmed that the Chevailer used to look at these notes, while writing the book.
Third, the reading also suggests that the way he described his escape from prison, by making hole in the ceiling of his cell with a metal, looks rather fictional; what he really did was bribing the guards. The lecture, on the contrary, opposes this by saying that he actually escaped prison through ceiling because even more important people could not bribe their way out of prison. It backs this argument by saying that the Venetian government at that time released reports about how they needed to fix the ceiling in the cell where the Chevalier was imprisoned.
Overall, the issue about the trustworthiness of the memoir remains open to debate due to the fact that it happened a long time ago and there is no secure way to prove it.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 187, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'did' requires the base form of the verb: 'bribe'
Suggestion: bribe
...ather fictional; what he really did was bribing the guards. The lecture, on the contrar...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, however, look, moreover, really, second, so, third, while, in other words, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 22.412803532 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1601.0 1373.03311258 117% => OK
No of words: 323.0 270.72406181 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95665634675 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23936324884 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.35464741786 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 145.348785872 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.572755417957 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 478.8 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 29.0 21.2450331126 137% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 48.1727264149 49.2860985944 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.545454545 110.228320801 132% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.3636363636 21.698381199 135% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.4545454545 7.06452816374 176% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.114532134319 0.272083759551 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0473540918422 0.0996497079465 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0919644081317 0.0662205650399 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0656516484623 0.162205337803 40% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0767039634608 0.0443174109184 173% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 13.3589403974 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 53.8541721854 94% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.08 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.0 10.7273730684 158% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.498013245 130% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 11.2008830022 152% => 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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