The author of the reading believes that the medium of comics started in the United States and the comic strip is a true American art form. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article by saying that comics are not uniquely American.
First of all, the author points out that the world's first successful comic strip was Hogan's Alley, featuring the world's first popular cartoon character, Yellow Kid. The article notes that Hogan's Alley was American in every way. The lecturer challenges this point by saying that Hogan's Alley was not the world's first successful comic strip. Furthermore, he argues that comic strips were already popular in Europe, especially in Britain and Switzerland, in the 1970s, which is a hundred years earlier than the release date of Hogan's Alley in the United States.
Secondly, the author states that Hogan's Alley was about the lives of ordinary Americans. The author gives more information by saying that the comic was created by cartoonist R.F Outcault and printed in newspapers by two publishers named Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, who were both Americans according to the article. The lecturer, on the other hand, says that the characters of Hogan's Alley were mostly immigrants and continues by saying that Joseph Pulitzer, one of the publishers of the comic, was also an immigrant who came from Hungary to the United States.
In addition to this, the author, along with the claim of Action Comics being the first popular comic book in the world, claims that Superman, who was featured in the comics series, was the world's first superhero. It is mentioned in the article that both Action Comics and Superman were American-created. The lecturer rebuts this argument by saying that another comic book called The Adventures of Tintin was released in Belgium 16 years before the release date of Action Comics and he mentions that it predated Superman in both popularity and creation. The lecturer also finds it worth noting that the artist of Superman is not from the United States but from Canada.
Finally, the author contends that both manga and European comics such as the Smurfs and Asterix were inspired from American comics. Again, the lecturer suggests that neither Japanese nor European comics were influenced by American comics. He puts forth the idea that Japanese comics were influenced by traditional Asian art and European comics like Smurfs were drawn in a uniquely European style by their European creators.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 177, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: F
...t the comic was created by cartoonist R.F Outcault and printed in newspapers by t...
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Line 7, column 167, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'comics'' or 'comic's'?
Suggestion: comics'; comic's
... that Superman, who was featured in the comics series, was the worlds first superhero....
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, second, secondly, so, in addition, such as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 10.4613686534 220% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 12.0772626932 182% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 30.3222958057 165% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2084.0 1373.03311258 152% => OK
No of words: 409.0 270.72406181 151% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09535452323 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49708221141 4.04702891845 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41729797243 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 145.348785872 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.452322738386 0.540411800872 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 634.5 419.366225166 151% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.6225192791 49.2860985944 123% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.25 110.228320801 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5625 21.698381199 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.1875 7.06452816374 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.357860872211 0.272083759551 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.145161689618 0.0996497079465 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0836888692938 0.0662205650399 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.224162991229 0.162205337803 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0701354018323 0.0443174109184 158% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 13.3589403974 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 63.6247240618 149% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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