Chevalier memoir

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Chevalier memoir

The author states that the events in the memoir are inaccurate and distorted by Chevalier to make his life seem more glamorous. However, the professor claims that the memoir is an accurate and reliable historical source and refutes each of the points made in the article.
Firstly, the article claims that Chevalier had borrowed considerable sums of money to spend on parties and gambling during his stay at Switzerland. The author says that he wouldn't have to borrow money if he was truly wealthy. However, the professor believes that there are flaws in the author's position by saying that borrowing money does not imply that one is poor. He goes on to say that wealth in the form of property can take time to liquidate to money and borrowing would be done during this stint.
Secondly, the passage posits that the accuracy of the conversations with the famous writer Voltaire is doubtful since it was documented many years after the conversations were held. The professor points out that Chevalier used to make notes every night and noted the meeting details on a daily basis. Moreover, this was confirmed by Chevalier's servant.
Lastly, the excerpt questions the account of Chevalier's escape from prison via a hole crafted in the ceiling. The author believes that the escape was made via a bribe through his well-connected friends in Venice. The professor opposes this point by saying that there were other prisoners present who had greater political connections than Chevalier and hence a bribe was not the case. He goes on to say that old prison documents mention a repair to the ceiling in Chevalier's prison cell after his escape which strengthens the memoirs genuineness.
As you can see, the author and professor have very different views on the authenticity of the events in Chevalier's memoir.

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Average: 6.1 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 173, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
...at Switzerland. The author says that he wouldnt have to borrow money if he was truly we...
^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 527, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'memoirs'' or 'memoir's'?
Suggestion: memoirs'; memoir's
... after his escape which strengthens the memoirs genuineness. As you can see, the auth...
^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, hence, however, if, lastly, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, well

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 30.3222958057 139% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1507.0 1373.03311258 110% => OK
No of words: 302.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99006622517 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1687104957 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62844878923 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 145.348785872 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.543046357616 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 462.6 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.0603456068 49.2860985944 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.642857143 110.228320801 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5714285714 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.14285714286 7.06452816374 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => 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: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.291656064445 0.272083759551 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108205299963 0.0996497079465 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101255429576 0.0662205650399 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.190851964678 0.162205337803 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0974421388884 0.0443174109184 220% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.13 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 61.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.5 Out of 30
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